Ever see that movie, "The Holiday?" The characters in the film, who live in different countries, decide to swap homes and live like a local in a new place for a period of time.  It's like a vacation, yet you feel right at home.  And if you are lucky like the characters, you'll fall in love and live happily ever after!  Of course, they never address the little details, like, where are all of your personal items while others rifle through your drawers?  Enter Fontana self storage, a perfect place to store your personal items while others are napping on your couch and cooking in your kitchen!

If you have a burning desire to travel the world, soak up the sights and live like a local in that place, look into this cool new concept of home exchange.   Basically, you exchange your home for someone else's home in another part of the world.  There are websites specializing in facilitating these home swaps, which is where you swap homes with others on a temporary vacation-style basis.  You stay in their home while they stay in yours.  House swapping is not for people who get weirded out at the idea of someone sleeping in their bed, using their dishes, and touching their stuff.  However, it that doesn't bother you, it's a wonderful way to travel. You make your home as "hotel-like" as possible, removing everything from drawers and cleaning out the fridge of all your perishables, and storing valuables in Fontana self storage until you return.  Packing up your personal stuff and putting it in a storage unit streamlines this home exchange process for travel loving folks who like feeling like a local in their destination town.

The main thing to remember when you sign up for a home swap, is that while someone is in your house, you're in theirs. You respect their stuff and they respect yours. Have a big family?  Home swaps are much more affordable than cramming the entire family into one or two hotel rooms.  And you'll have much more privacy with a roomier home.  No late night partying strangers in the next room or down the hall.  You can even get up when you want, without that knock from housekeeping!  You live for a time in this potentially tropical place with a chance to really get to know the local ways and even neighbors.  You can pretty much consider your house swap as "home" for a short time.  And you'll really have peace of mind knowing your stuff is safe in Fontana self storage.  You are definitely less "touristy" than all those other people in high rise hotels!