{"id":27112,"date":"2017-04-21T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=27112"},"modified":"2021-06-14T12:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:49:30","slug":"house-sitting-and-the-trust-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/house-sitting-and-the-trust-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"House Sitting and the Trust Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s had a 40km run over to nearby Antequera for supplies, but has otherwise not lifted a tyre. He&#8217;s in stasis sat behind locked gates in the villa we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?mid=5758&amp;id=138633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">house sitting<\/a> for 6 weeks in\u00a0Valle de Abdalaj\u00eds, an hour north of\u00a0M\u00e1laga. The weather&#8217;s dipped a little, saving our Factor 50 sunscreen stash, granting an opportunity for less heated garden weeding, and seeing the log burner getting some evening action.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27118\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27118\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27118\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170419_181242469-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"It's been a tough week folks.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170419_181242469-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170419_181242469-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170419_181242469-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170419_181242469-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s been a tough week folks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the past couple of weeks we&#8217;ve been living in a luxury villa, with a 270\u00ba view of the wonderful Andalusian countryside, and it&#8217;s been messing with my head. How can this be? How can we be here, spending weeks on end in pure luxury, effectively for free. Sure, we&#8217;re paying for our own food and consumables like wood for the fire and gas bottles for the house&#8217;s boiler. We&#8217;re also spending a few hours watering and weeding the garden, feeding and walking the pooches. But still it seems to me quite incredible this is possible, this place should be \u00a3500 a week, and instead we&#8217;re living it up, and saving and investing more money each week we&#8217;re here. This is simply mind bending.<\/p>\n<p>But as soon as I started scratching about in Google, I realised what we&#8217;ve got here through this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?mid=5758&amp;id=138633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trustedhousesitters.com<\/a> gig is just the tip of the iceberg. The world is changing, and in an intriguing way, a way which could seriously benefit us (and you) in the future.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first nuggets I came across was this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TED talk on collaborative consumption<\/a> (if you&#8217;ve not come across TED before, you&#8217;re in for a treat, there are thousands of high quality talks on all kinds of subjects by all kinds of people, for free). In it, Rachel talks about how the rise of trust is creating a new landscape of opportunities for people, and I&#8217;m currently sitting in one of them!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably already heard of some of this sharing stuff, I had, but I&#8217;d not taken much notice of if before now as I&#8217;m an old git, and this is all new, fresh stuff, which seemed only relevant to the whipper snapper:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can earn money from your spare room &#8211; AirBnB<\/li>\n<li>You can rent out your car and ability to drive it &#8211; uber<\/li>\n<li>You can swap your motorhome with someone abroad &#8211; motorhomeholidayswap.com<\/li>\n<li>You can loan people money through various peer to peer lending platforms like zopa and ratesetter<\/li>\n<li>You can even sell your ability to assemble IKEA furniture, share a pet, share your push bike, share tools, you name it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The stuff which drives all of this is trust. We&#8217;re being trusted by the owners of this villa to take care of their dogs, not have a rave in here or set fire to the place. From our experience of travel and letting out houses, almost everyone is trustworthy, although human nature (including our own), tends to concentrate on the very small number of untrustworthy individuals. And in a weird backwards flip of logic, I find it difficult to believe anyone would trust me with their home, car, pet etc. It seems the world is becoming more trusting, helped by online reputation scores popping up everywhere (e.g. we&#8217;ll get a feedback rating on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?mid=5758&amp;id=138633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trustedhousesitters.com<\/a>, which we hope will\u00a0be a good one, to help us get more astounding gigs like this one).<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity for us, as the early retired, dynamic, energetic couple that we are (ahem), is endless. We could opt to travel the world using airBnB to keep costs down and get more authentic experiences. We could share our motorhome, as our friends have done, travelling Canada and New Zealand at very low cost as a result. We could get use of a car while we&#8217;re back home without having to buy one. We could use &#8216;task trading&#8217; websites, once they reach our corner of the world, to sell our time doing chores for people, and at the same time make a positive contribution to our wee town.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite excited about it all. Not just on a personal level, for the world around me as well. I often wondered back in the days when I had a garage full of stuff about the inefficiency of it all. I had a whole stack of tools, as did my neighbour, and his neighbour, and on and on. I used each them about 0.00001% of the time. After using tons of resources to get this stuff into my garage, I pretty much never used it, and it took up a load of expensive space, which we had to pay a mortgage for. The opportunity to share stuff about, based on trust and acceptance of a small amount of inconvenience, is simply enormous.<\/p>\n<p>And in other Team Zagan news this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve had a BBQ, in one of the most amazing settings, and burned off the calories with a run the next day<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve been over to Antequera, scared ourselves in the narrow streets, been surprised by just how lovely the place is, stocked up on dog food from the vets <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/an-ordinary-town-antequera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we visited 5 years ago<\/a>, and left Lidl&#8217;s shelves empty<\/li>\n<li>The beard has gone, as it does from time to time, and Ju&#8217;s cut my hair, saving us a good fiver<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve been on <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Us-on-radio.wav\">BBC Radio Nottingham with Mark Dennison talking about life<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0340780673\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0340780673&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dailyposts-21&amp;linkId=a710d3960909332ec41c450b286be8b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Thomas Learn Spanish CDs<\/a> have been back out and we&#8217;re slowly grinding our way through &#8217;em. I&#8217;m enjoying his way of teaching, where you&#8217;re saying full sentences from day 1, rather than learning how to fully conjugate <em>tener<\/em> and the like<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1517254469\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1517254469&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dailyposts-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Own the World<\/a>, and Ju&#8217;s working through it now, a very good book about taking personal control through investing in worldwide assets, something we&#8217;ve started to do and build knowledge in with a range of <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/how-weve-risked-our-money-in-the-stock-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">low cost share funds we own<\/a>. The book&#8217;s reinforced we&#8217;re doing the right thing, and given me a bunch of ideas for the future.<\/li>\n<li>And we&#8217;re rewriting our Motorhome Morocco book, updating it and pouring in all the practical experience we picked up from the three months we spent there this year. There&#8217;s a stack of work involved in writing books, so it&#8217;ll take us a while to get it completed. Watch this space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Right, gotta go, too much stuff to be doing! I&#8217;ll leave you with a few photos from this week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27122\" style=\"width: 2160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27122\" class=\"wp-image-27122 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_132926481.jpg\" alt=\"Looks like TomTom are gathering street view data in Antequera. Satnavs will be cool with real images of the scene around you!\" width=\"2150\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_132926481.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_132926481-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_132926481-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_132926481-1024x559.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2150px) 100vw, 2150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks like TomTom are gathering street view data in Antequera. Satnavs will be cool with real images of the scene around you!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27120\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27120\" class=\"wp-image-27120 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_130243466_HDR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The trolley wheels almost buckled in Lidl - aver \u20ac200 in one go, our biggest shop yet!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_130243466_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_130243466_HDR-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_130243466_HDR-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_130243466_HDR-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trolley wheels almost buckled in Lidl &#8211; aver \u20ac200 in one go, our biggest shop yet!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27119\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27119\" class=\"wp-image-27119 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115122540-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Parked up in Antequera while we nipped to the vets\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115122540-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115122540-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115122540-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115122540-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parked up in Antequera while we nipped to the vets<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27116\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27116\" class=\"wp-image-27116 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_112301322-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Arghhh, best not to drive straight through Antequera (will we ever learn)! Ju had to get out at one point to edge us past a parked car, hazard warning lights a-flashing\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_112301322-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_112301322-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_112301322-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_112301322-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arghhh, best not to drive straight through Antequera (will we ever learn)! Ju had to get out at one point to edge us past a parked car, hazard warning lights a-flashing<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27117\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27117\" class=\"wp-image-27117 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115202524-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Antequera and the Andalusian countryside. Pretty wonderful\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115202524-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115202524-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115202524-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170420_115202524-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antequera and the Andalusian countryside. Pretty wonderful<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27123\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27123\" class=\"wp-image-27123 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170416_205301563_HDR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A bit of cloud's moved in over the sierra\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170416_205301563_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170416_205301563_HDR-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170416_205301563_HDR-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170416_205301563_HDR-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bit of cloud&#8217;s moved in over the sierra<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27121\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27121\" class=\"wp-image-27121 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170415_175319394_HDR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Blue skies earlier in the week, so we BBQ'd some sausages from Morrisons!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170415_175319394_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170415_175319394_HDR-1024x576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170415_175319394_HDR-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170415_175319394_HDR-1024x576-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue skies earlier in the week, so we BBQ&#8217;d some sausages from Morrisons!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s had a 40km run over to nearby Antequera for supplies, but has otherwise not lifted a tyre. 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