Taking the Low Road

Be okay with packing your own lunches and snacks.
Like Tip #2, this one’s kitchen-centric. Since, when we home-exchange, we have a fully equipped and well stocked kitchen (after we patronize the local grocer), it stands to reason that we should pack our lunches and snacks. It’s a no-brainer. It can be exactly what we like, [...]

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Join a home exchange program – or something similar.
I just happened to learn about a home exchange through a tiny little article in Scottish Life Magazine, way back in 1997. Turns out that two-paragraph article about a home exchange had been printed without the home exchange director’s permission. Oops. His is a “closed” home exchange, [...]

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