Things To Do Before You Leave

• Buy a travel insurance.
• Clear perishables in the fridge.
• Flush all toilets in the house and place the lids down.
• Remove unused plugs from the electrical sockets.
• If there is no one to water the house plants while you are away, set up a simple automatic watering system - you will need empty plastic bottles (at least 500ml) and knitting threads. For each potted plant, fill up a plastic bottle with water, use 60-80 cm long of knitting thread and insert one end of the thread (you may want to tie several strands together to make it thicker) into the bottom of bottle while the other end rests on the soil of the potted plant. Keep the distance between the bottle and the plant as far as possible. Water will eventually travel from the bottle along the thread to wet the soil.

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