Article: Every person’s needs are different.  There are published guidelines available based on age, which is a great place to start, but you may need to take additional steps to determine your exact needs. Perform a simple sleep test. It will likely take more than one night to determine the results of this test. The next opportunity that you have to sleep in for a few days — a long weekend or a vacation — is your chance to perform this test. You may need several nights in a row to get the best results. Go to bed at a time you would like to be your normal bedtime. Resist staying up late even though you can sleep in the next day. Get accurate results from the test by sticking with a routine bedtime each night. Do not set an alarm clock. Sleep until you wake up naturally. The first night you will probably sleep for a very long time, maybe even 16 hours or more. This is because you are likely experiencing "sleep debt." Once your sleep debt is taken care of, continue to go to bed at the same time each night, never setting an alarm. After a few days, you will naturally wake up at about the same time each morning. By calculating how long you slept (if you fall asleep at 10 pm and wake up at 7 am, then you slept for nine hours), you know how much sleep you need each night. Sleep debt occurs when you fail to get the amount of sleep your body needs (going to bed early and waking up early, etc.). It accumulates over time, putting you deeper and deeper into debt.  You are adding minutes or hours to your sleep debt every time you cut your night’s sleep a little short. This can occur in both the short term and over months. You can repay your short-term sleep debt by adding an hour or so to each night’s sleep (going to bed early or sleeping later if possible) or by taking a nap. This means that you need to keep track of the hours of sleep you lost, therefore you need to know how much sleep you need. Longer term sleep debt accumulations may take several weeks, or even longer to pay back and get back on track.  Take a vacation with nothing on your schedule, then go to bed at the same time every night and sleep every morning until you wake up naturally. Don’t beat yourself up for sleeping a lot during this vacation. Just pay back your sleep debt and get back on a regular schedule. Once you have repaid your debt and you stick to a regular bedtime, you will reach a point where you no longer need that alarm clock in the mornings. This is provided that your bedtime is early enough to allow your body to get the exact amount of sleep it requires. Not everyone fits in the standard eight hours of sleep. Your body may require a little more sleep or a little less. If you have caught up on your sleep debt and you still feel fatigued during the day and have trouble waking up and getting out of bed, then you may have an underlying medical problem or medication that is contributing to the problem. Make an appointment with your doctor to figure out what is causing your fatigue.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Determine the number of hours of sleep you need. Pay back your short-term sleep debt. Take a vacation for long-term debt.
Article: If you're tackling the move by yourself, then you'll need to arrange to pick up a removals van on the morning of the move. Make this arrangement well in advance, or it may be tricky to hire a van exactly when you want it for a reasonable price during a busy moving season. Compare the prices of a few companies before making your decision. Get there early to avoid waiting in a queue on a busy moving day. Packing your moving truck won't be a big challenge if you plan in advance and have the help of a few trusted friends when you do it. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you pack your moving truck:  Remember that you will need at least two people to handle things other than lifting and hauling. They will need to organize the things that need to be loaded by keeping the packed boxes close to the door easily accessible. Disassemble your furniture. Take apart any lamps, tables with removable legs, bookshelves, and entertainment systems. Protect your furniture. Wrap all of your items with packing paper, bubblewrap and tape as you load them into the truck. Load the heaviest items first, into the back of the truck. This includes your fridge, washer, dryer, and other appliances, as well as your heaviest boxes. Load the heaviest boxes. Stack them like bricks to form layers of walls that fill the back of the truck. Use T-stacks to make the boxes more stable: make each vertical seam make a T with the horizontal layer below it, like bricks in a house. Avoid vertical pillars of similar sized boxes. To maximize space, it is essential to stack high, stable walls early on. Next, load your longer items into the truck. This includes your bed and shelves. Lean them against the sides of the truck. Pack your remaining boxes into the truck. Create three layers of boxes which includes the heaviest boxes on the bottom, the medium-sized boxes in the middle, and the lightest boxes on top. Once you're done with each layer, tape it together with packing tape. Put in your remaining items. The trick is to make everything fit snugly together, but don't pack it so tight that it looks ready to explode. When using the ramp of a box van, such as the vans pictured, make sure the ramp has been fitted into place: once you have fully extended the ramp from under the truck, you will find two prongs that will fit into slots on the lip of the van's cargo space. This will ensure that the ramp is flush with the lip, and make it a breeze to use the dolly. This step is often overlooked. Make sure the dolly is one of the last things to get loaded, so you will have it as soon as you arrive at the new house. Carefully drive the truck to your new home. Be prepared to drive slower and more carefully than you would do in a car. Driving a moving truck takes a big adjustment. Remember to go slowly and stay calm, because the drive may be stressful. If at all possible, back the truck up to the new house so that the ramp will extend onto the porch. Use all of your crew as spotters to make sure you are clear of any obstacles. When you are close to the porch, extend the ramp and hook it in place, and have a crew member carry the opposite end. Most ramps will not latch properly unless the end is on the ground. Once you have the ramp set up, here's how you can unload your stuff:  Have a plan for where you're going to put the large items in each room.  Do a walk through with the movers, and show them where the larger items go, such as the sofas, TV, cabinets, beds, dressers, night-stands, etc. Choose where to put the boxes and small items in each room based on that.  That way the boxes won't be in the way when the big furniture comes in.  And you won't have to move the boxes again.  You can put Post-it notes on the wall if necessary. You will have arranged whether you will do this the same day or the next morning.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Hire a removals van. Pick up your vehicle on the morning of the move. Pack your moving truck. Drive your truck to your new location. Unload your stuff. Return your moving truck.