I quite understand where you are coming from in wanting to get organised.

At the end of November I was looking at tests for a January trip to the US. Then I needed a pre departure test to the US and a day 2 test back when I arrived home in the UK,

Then it was changed to needing a pre departure test to the USA and then a pre departure back to the UK test and then a Day 2 PCR test.

Then a week before I was due to fly the pre departure back to the UK test was dropped and the Day 2 was back to a lateral flow.

And now the UK day 2 test has been dropped from 11th February

no wonder people are confused !