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Four weeks on a sun-baked beach holiday can seem to stretch out forever. When you have a three-bedroom family house and a lifetime of possessions to pack, they somehow don’t seem as long. The moveme.com MovePlanner will help you to prioritise what you need to do, but here are a few tips.

With just a month to go until D-Day start packing away non-essential items such as out-of-season clothes and shoes, duplicate crockery, occasional kitchenware, books, CDs and vinyl. Tackling non-essential items in advance offers a gentle introduction to the packing process for any novice movers – who will find it gets progressively easier after the first few boxes, we promise. Clearly marking the contents of each box (including which room it belongs in) makes unpacking at the other end less of a guessing game. Many people like to use a coded inventory, just ensure it stays close at hand to prevent accidental migration into any open packing crates. If you opt for sticky labels attach them securely, they do have a habit of becoming misplaced, especially when boxes are stacked on top of one another for any length of time.

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