How We Did It!

You honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments?

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in the movie Fight Club

Here, you can benefit from our experience as minimalists, who retired early, sold most of our possessions and rented out the house. We do not purport to be experts, but this is what worked for us!

Our general tips should apply worldwide, but we are UK based, so a few aspects are UK specific.

Getting Ready for Life on the Road

1. Decluttering

2. Financing – You DON’T Have to be Rich to Live Your Dreams!

Other Money-Making Tips

How I Saved Money to Travel – don’t believe me and ‘Our Tour’ that you don’t need to be Rich if you track your spending and cut out non-essentials?!

1. Jooble lists thousands of temporary work opportunities abroad. If you’re a passionate traveller seeking ways to fund your adventures while visiting marvellous places, explore the opportunities listed on https://jooble.org/jobs-temporary/Abroad.
2. HomeWorkingClub.com is a website brought to you by a team with decades of combined experience in freelancing and home working. It features lots of advice, news, resources, reviews, common scams – plus a job board.
3. How To Make Money Blogging – from World Travel Family. This is genuinely about how to make money blogging, not selling courses about how to make money blogging, and gives a very comprehensive guide to SEO, adverts and affilliate income.
4. How to Make Money on the Road – From Matt at Expert Vagabond
   • 35 Best Travel Jobs – a useful guide to careers involving travel or location-independent jobs to help you work and travel the world.
   • 38 Creative Side Hustles to Make Extra Money – I am not sure about selling your plasma & doing clinical trials, but this blog features some good ideas! 
5. From Rest Less, the job site for the over 50s.
   • 8 Roles That Will Take You Around The World
   • 11 Business Ideas That You Can Start From Home – including a few that you can start from a caravan.  
6. Seasonal, Temporary & Volunteering Jobs
   • AnyWorkAnywhere – lists seasonal work and jobs abroad.
   • Diggers & Dreamers Website and Facebook Group list opportunities in the UK and abroad. Usually, the recompense, if any, is accommodation./parking and/or food.
   • WWOOF – Worldwide Work on Organic Farms is an exchange network operating in many countries where accommodation, meals and learning are given in return for help to hosts. A WWOOF host invites people to come to their place to work usually about 4 to 6 hours a day in return for their daily food, boarding and the experience of sharing daily life with the people who live and work at the host. Stays of varying lengths are possible. Each WWOOF group is a separate and independent organisation. There is no head office of WWOOFing in the world.
   • A Review of The Best Work Exchange Sites including discount codes on the vetting/membership fees:
     • Workaway – advertises placements all over the world in hostels, farms, private homes etc. There is an annual registration fee, but the work placements are free after that.
     • Worldpackers – is free to join so you can browse for potential placements, but you have to pay membership to apply for placements. Volunteer opportunities include hostels, campsites, NGOs, social projects, farms, ecovillages, restaurants, small businesses and families, again.
     • HelpX – has listings primarily in Australia, New Zealand, Canada & Europe, although there are listings in other parts of the world too. The membership cost is less than Workaway and Worldpackers.
     • Trusted Housesitters – does what it says on the tin!
7. If you’re not there yet, here’s how to fit more travel around a full-time job on a budget
   • How To Travel More With A Full-Time Job – from the “It’s All Trip To Me” blog. 
   • 18 Best Travel Resources – great hacks budget travel hacks from “The Planking Traveler” blog. 

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