We've been very happily married for 23 years. We are both 58, mature, respectful, quiet, and neat. We are emotionally stable and responsible with boatloads of common sense. We keep cool heads in challenging moments and emergencies. We are non-smokers, drug-free, Covid-vaccinated and boosted, and have our own reliable car. We are comfortable administering medication to compliant pets via pill pocket, mixing into food, or oral syringe. We are members of several housesitting platforms, so we have created our own housesitting so you can get to know us a bit better. Here’s a link:
sites.google /view/jerilyn-mathew/home
Jerilyn owned an SAT/ACT prep business for 20 years (now retired), and Mathew works remotely part-time as a graphic designer. Back in February 2021, we sold almost everything, packed what was left in the car, sold our house, and have been traveling ever since. For the first year, we were camping and staying with friends & in s and hotels. But in May 2022, we discovered housesitting. It was an instant love affair, and we have been doing it full-time ever since. We enjoy the nomadic lifestyle, love seeing the myriad ways people live, and have had a fantastic time connecting with new people and animals.
We love hiking and exploring natural places together, swimming in warm waters, and kayaking. We are homebodies and don't party or generally go out at night. Jerilyn loves reading, gardening, singing, and playing Scrabble, and Mathew loves creating ambient music on his laptop and headphones. He's also great at wrangling tangled cables.
There's a particular beauty in the housesitting lifestyle, one that relies upon trust in the essential goodness of one another, and that is a lovely premise on which to live a life. When you respect and appreciate another person's home and pets, there is a generosity in the way you approach housesitting. Being generous is one of life's great joys, and housesitting allows us to express that value in a unique way. Because we owned a rental for 16 years, we feel we truly understand the importance of others caring for your home - and how awful it is when they don't.
We subscribe to the "leave it as you found it (or better)" credo. We both love order and cleanliness, and not having a place of our own anymore, we appreciate "home" (no matter whose it is) and treat it like it is ours.
We also have a side business called Neat Freaks. Being neat freaks ourselves (it helps if everything you own can fit into a Subaru Outback!), we love to help people free themselves both physically and mentally from their clutter. If you know anyone who could use this sort of support, check out our :
sites.google /view/neat-freaks/home