(Air) bed sharing for a fee

AMY SAYS...

Roomorama aims to provide a quick and easy way to arrange short-term stays by matching hosts who have space to share with travellers planning a visit to their city. Potential hosts begin by listing the details of the room they have, including when it's available and the per-night price they'd like to be paid. Listing is free, and Roomorama's search filters and "shoutout" system ensure that hosts see only relevant results. Guests, meanwhile, can either search through the listed accommodations or create a shoutout ad specifying what they're hoping to find. Once they find something they like, they pay Roomorama via Paypal for their stay, along with an 8 percent transaction fee. In exchange, they get a payment code to be used upon checkin. Only when they've checked in and approved the accommodations does the guest give that payment code to the host, thereby releasing the transfer of the funds to the host via check or Paypal. User profiles, feedback history and post-stay reviews on the site create a transparent environment for both hosts and guests.

Indeed, it's beginning to look like transparency, financial motivation and Paypal-level security might be just what was needed to make bed-sharing a mainstream alternative to expensive hotels. One to partner with in high-rent cities around the world....? (Related: Soccer fans to share beds at Euro 2008.)

Air bed and breakfast
Wow - on the dates that Gareth and I are both away we could post our room! Not sure my mother would go for it but extra cash here we come!

Backwards

AMY SAYS...

I've done some new sums and they are daunting - there seem to be too many f***ing numbers - 8 in all.

By September 15th we will owe: $98,984.74

Backwards it's only $47,489.98

Maybe I can convince the Government that their records are ass backwards!!

And maybe not...

Love is...

GARETH SAYS...

... letting someone have all your bank account information so they can take the money straight from your account as soon as it is paid in.

AMY SAYS...

Yep, I set Gareth up on electronic payment - eeek - it's just sooo much easier then running to the bank all the time :)

I think it freaked him out a little, but DON'T worry I'm trustworthy, kinda ;)

More Pretty Pictures

GARETH SAYS...

Here's the woman who i sold the burning man tickets to! She was very happy! It finished yesterday so i hope she had fun. Roll on next year. Nothing is going to stop me and Amy going to BM 09 x

Pretty Pictures

GARETH SAYS...

I finally got the pictures off my camera. Loads of memories so i though i'd share them with you.

Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the limeade stand!

AMY SAYS...
...and Stinky, aka, belly button, aka Isabel my niece!

Handsome Stud in Stolen Sneaks

AMY SAYS...
I did a shoot last week with a pair of sneakers and some wild red shoe laces. My boss wanted to keep the sneakers when I jumped in and said, "No they're for Gareth!" So grabbed them and took them home. I think they are foxy, I'm not sure if they are Gareth's style but they were FREE!

This morning he jumped up and ran out to give his very first lecture in Canada in his new sneaks and stylish, but cheap, black Uniqlo duds. He looked great and he will knock 'em dead!

Love is hard

GARETH SAYS...

No not in that way! Stop sniggering.

I mean hard as in tricky.

We bash up against one another.
We rub one another up the wrong way.
We pick fights.
We don't let things go.

Actually when i say 'we' i mean 'i'.

This is the hardest thing i've ever done and - to be honest - i'm not very good at it.