Imagine never having to do laundry or dishes ever again; Libby Rome could tell you all about it.

Rome, 52, has been living on cruise ships full-time with her husband for the past three years. Around 16 years ago, the couple decided to sell the bulk of their belongings to embrace a nomadic lifestyle, living between hotels around the world before taking up cruising.

Rome tells PEOPLE that nearly everything she owns now fits in a backpack, and downsizing drastically has helped a lot with keeping things organized. Rome shares a lot about her nomadic and cruise lifestyle online, noting that they don’t have a car, a house, “even chores or errands.” She is most frequently asked about laundry, how they get their mail, visit the doctor and more.

Rome, however, tells PEOPLE that “after 15 or more cruises with Princess, they give you free laundry service.”

“My laundry is me putting my dirty clothes in a bag and filling in a form and leaving it next to my door for when my cabin steward comes in. He brought it back clean and hung it the next day for me. It really is no chores, no errands,” Rome shares.

“As a minimalist, I don’t really need to buy anything. I very rarely need to buy anything, especially since we’ve been doing this no-minimal style for so long,” she adds. “I have two pairs of pants that I go between. If one goes to the wash, I wear the other. That’s all I need. I don’t need more than those pants.”

She notes that, since they “don’t own very much,” they simply “don’t have very much laundry and don’t have the chores and errands that most people would have to purchase things and then maintain things.”

Rome notes that she finds itineraries that line up, and they often don’t even need to pack up their things when they port between cruises. Despite cruising year-round, they only end up going on two to three different ships a year. She estimates that, for both her and her husband, it costs around $66 a day for room and board, transportation, food, accommodation and entertainment on the ships, thanks to a few budgeting hacks.

As for mail, she has anything important sent to her sister’s house, which is a reliable address in the United States. When it comes to handling medical care, she notes that all ships employ medical staff.

“I have type 1 diabetes, which means that I need regular medical supplies,” she shares. “That was a challenge at the beginning, because I was never going out of the same port, so I was always seeing different doctors, going to different pharmacies. It was hard to get my medications regularly and easily.”

Then she started booking cruises that dock and leave from the same port, so she could schedule doctor’s appointments during cruise turnaround days, which are the days between her cruise segments.

“I managed to make it work, and that’s how I do it now. I’ve never had to go to another country to try to get my medicine or anything like that,” Rome, who works remotely, tells PEOPLE. “Fortunately, I’ve had good healthcare insurance that covered it. And then as long as I’m in a place where I can easily pick it up on those cruise turnaround days, that’s worked well for me.”

If she isn’t able to wait, she visits one of the doctors on board.

“There are three full-time doctors on board, so they check in,” Rome emphasizes. “So there’s somebody available. And I talked to one of the doctors just casually at one of the events. It was very reassuring that they have the knowledge and the ability to take care of things if anything did go wrong.”

For anyone interested in living on cruise ships full-time, Rome notes the first thing to consider is if they even “like cruising.”

“The advice I would give is to go on a cruise or two and maybe even an extra long one, like a repositioning cruise with a lot of sea days to make sure,” she says. “A lot of people have concerns about seasickness and other things. For me, that’s never really been an issue. I got seasick a couple of times a little bit at the very beginning, but then I learned how to prevent it.”

Rome shares that she and her husband “are both thrilled and excited to have this really neat lifestyle where we don’t really have to worry about much and no chores and no errands and we’re having fun.”

“We just absolutely love it,” she adds.