Usually we do Osouji (大掃除) at the end of the year but this year we decided to start in on it a couple weeks early. We'll do the actual washing of things the last day or two. Today we got started on the decluttering.

My "system" for this task is running things through two questions:

1. What is it?
2. Where does it live?

When I stuck to that, things got done. When I deviated, distraction set in.