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"What if the spare room paid for your flights?"
There is something quietly brilliant about your spare room doing the heavy lifting while you do nothing extra. You watch the travel fund grow, and suddenly those flights to Lisbon or a month in Southeast Asia stop feeling like a fantasy. Along the way you meet someone new, probably a student up from Connacht or a grad moving to Dublin, and your home gets a bit of life in it. You learn you are more resourceful than you thought, and that freedom often starts with one practical, unglamorous decision.
Fionn (29), Wexford — works in logistics at Rosslare Europort, restores old road bikes in the shed
The room had been sitting there for about eight months doing nothing except collecting a broken exercise bike and some boxes I kept meaning to bring to the Barntown recycling centre.
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