Which part? The hosts often got the better end of the deal.

Today i would much enjoy a monthly elaborate dinner with my girl in exchange for 1x using a bed in a spare room i never use. Renting it out for a day for $ to a stranger is not going to happen but if it did it wouldnt cover the cost for professional cleaning plus a private cook.

I also had friends who never cook and ones who barely clean. I did whole office buildings, vacuuming a livingroom is not going to impress me.

I couldn't understand. Did you do it to bond with your friends or to save money?

It's their story of how they survived homelessness without destroying relationships by helping out in the houses they crashed in and not staying very long in any of them at once.

Sounds like he did it so he could have a place to stay