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I received this hilarious email from a member last week and just had to share it with everyone. The member didn’t want me to include her name, so I’m going to refer to her as ‘Susan’.

‘Susan’ joined as a new member who had never done a home exchange before. She openly admits that she looked to home swapping as a means to travel less expensively. Here is her story:

Well—thanks very much ExchangeHomes. I thought home exchanging was supposed to save me a bundle! During the winter my husband and I did an exchange with a couple from Australia and I thought that all we would have to pay would be our air fare and living expenses. Our exchange location was within walking distance of the beach in Sydney and public transport was excellent, so our day to day outlay was no more than what’s normal for us at home.

In our correspondence leading up to exchange our host mentioned that he had “a bit of an exercise room” which we were more than welcome to use during our stay. The “bit” turned out to be better than our local health club offers, and after two weeks of push ups, treadmilling, stairstepping, cardio strengthening and goodness only knows what else, my husband was addicted. Immediately we returned home he began researching the purchase of much of that same equipment.

Do you know what he’s spent? No—you probably don’t! Let me put it this way, we could have flown to Australia first class, stayed for a month in a luxury hotel, and then taken half of Sydney out to dinner and still spent less! I would say that I’m thinking of the Sahara Dessert for our next home exchange, but then I wonder how expensive it will afterwards be to buy and keep several camels.

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