How Do You Pack?

Do you stuff your case with things you don't need or carefully fold every piece of clothing you own? 

Love it or hate it, we all have our own way of packing for holidays. More than half of us neatly fold and roll our clothes, a survey of travellers found, but a fifth create packing chaos, flinging things into a case with no attempt at order. 

Then there are more fastidious travellers who wrap clothes in tissue paper (14 percent), stack in size order (six percent), or even vacuum pack (five percent). All this takes as long as a long-haul flight 52 percent of those going away this summer say they will spend seven hours packing. Even then, they will spend an average of £26.50  to buy items left at home, most often swimwear and cardigans. Two-thirds regularly come home with up to six unworn outfits and three pairs of shoes. A third pack favourite foods such as teabags, brown sauce, pies, biscuits and marmalade. 

The survey of 2 000 adults by Travelodge found a fifth rely on their partner to pack, while one in ten aged between 25 and 34 still get their mothers to do it for them.