Packing tips

Instead of taking everything, bar the kitchen sink. Learn how to pack cleverly with these tips:

• Prevent necklaces tangling by placing them through a straw.

• Use a button to keep earrings together - fasten each earring through one hole in the button.

• Fill your shoes with socks inside to save space and place your shoes in clean bags.

• Spray perfume on cotton pads to keep your suitcase smelling fresh

• Place cotton pads in makeup compacts to prevent breakage.

• Squeeze excess air out of toiletries - by gently squeezing them. 'This creates a vacuum that prevents them leaking

• Pack a dirty clothes bag.

• Pack belts around suitcase to save space.

• Roll clothing into zip lock bags.