Hey! We (Justine and Sarah) have been house sitting full time for a year now, our THS anniversary was last week in fact, and we love it! We would love to meet up with other house sitters in the areas we’re sitting to connect with other people who do what we do. We don’t actually know anyone else who lives this way, I’d go as far as to say many we know don’t get it at all, and would love to share stories and exchange advice with those who absolutely get it! Here are our locations and dates if anyone is interested in catching up
5th - 10th June - Great Harwood Lancashire
11th - 21st June - Grange-over-Sands, near the Lake District
21st June - 13th July - near Llangollen, north Wales
Thanks for posting – I’ll be housesitting through the summer in the UK and will be in London when you are doing your Hertfordshire sit. Would be great to meet fellow sitters. How should we contact each other?
Hi Sarah and Justine
I’m based in Harrow and often go to Ricky (local shorting of Rickmansworth) as it’s an easy 20 minute direct tube ride for me. So happy to meet up. There’s a couple of nice pubs on the high street and a spoons which I’ve visited quite a lot as a mystery diner!!
Anyway let me know when and where?
A house sitter AND fellow mystery shopper?! Surely not! Haha. We know Ricky well, we lived in Watford a few years ago. Would be great to meet, and always happy with a Spoons. I’m not used to the forum yet, so let me know how we make this happen
Hey @Muse1, thanks for replying would be great to meet. I’ve only just joined the forum so not sure what the etiquette is or how it’s usually sorted, but maybe we can join forces with @richten1 from our other comment? Where in London are you sitting?
Watford. Nice! Although I don’t know as I mainly know the high street as I’ve done Five guys, Chipotle and bills mystery dining visits and did an overnight mystery stay at the travelodge there!
I’m message you. It’ll be in your inbox (hot the 3 lines top right and inbox is the last option!).
I don’t think I’ll be in those areas on those dates, but I too would like to meet more fellow sitters. Btw, if your East Horsley sit is looking after Remi she is a wonderful dog in a fabulous home, you will love it.
That’s a shame, maybe we’ll meet during future sits Rast Horsley isn’t looking after Remi but we do find ourselves back there on various sits, so will keep an eye out for that one
Hi both! I’m so happy to find your post, I’ve been housesitting full time for 6 months now and also don’t know anyone else who lives like this or any other nomads. I have been reaching out on social media groups but had no luck. I would love to meet up with you guys! I’m in Manchester until 27th June and then in Sheffield 28 June- 7 July… so similar area of the country at least! Let me know if you’d be up for a meet up soon!!
Hey Kat! Thanks for messaging do you drive? Perhaps there’s a way we can arrange to meet somewhere in between when you’re in Sheffield and we’re in Llangollen in July. I’ll message you my number though as it’d be great to keep in touch. How are you finding the full time sit life?!
Hopefully next time Sharon the back-to-back can be tricky and sometimes we have to wait a while for the perfect sit to pop up, which can leave an uncomfortable gap where we have nowhere to go. We have this for a few nights in July but have faith it’ll get filled
I just messaged THS to ask if they were planning on having a members organised forum for meeting up in certain areas. They told me about this forum and it looks like you had the same idea as me!
Unfortunately, I am mainly London based at the moment or would have met up with you.
I do think it would be amazing if there was a dedicated meet up forum complete with map so you could post in certain areas E.g. London
