We're up the valley and settled into the hotel now. The electronics and a bag of clothing are out of the apartment.
I used this Konmari list
https://s3.amazonaws.com/konmaricheckli ... cklist.pdfand printed it off, whited-out the things I didn't need to do (like furniture) and wrote in things I do (like the table linens, centrepiece decorations, travel supplies). I'd already done the kitchen by the time I printed off the list so that was a good chunk I could cross off immediately. I will still go back and do clothing and books (last done 3 years ago) so left those on the printout.
The drive up went smoothly. I started the planning for next year's concerts and plays. Dh wants us to travel in September so that eliminates 3 events I had on the list. And a concert dh wanted to attend is while he's in Africa next year so he'll miss out. I have to do both plays and concerts at the same time so I don't mess up and double book us. I can't actually buy the tickets for the plays until August but the concerts have to be booked by May 15 to save 20%.
I also created the comparison chart for cars, making note of the features we want and writing them all down. I have the stats for 2 vehicles so I'll fill those in and then we'll add others as we look seriously at them. The websites are so uninformative, I figure it is faster to go to each dealer than to look online. Pictures of cars the right shape but no sense of scale and no listing of measurements. In most cases I have to go elsewhere to find things like gas mileage. In our case mileage is one of the top priorities (higher than price) so when this is missing from a website I just want to say, "Fine, I won't bother considering your car at all because it must be really, really, bad if you are hiding that sort of information." Dh, on the other hand, really wants a prestige car this time so won't let me flip the bird to certain companies.