No matter when you stop, you’ve made progress. In a perfect world, with a guaranteed three days available to devote to decluttering, what makes sense is to pull everything out of a space and then only put back what has a home. But no one I know lives in a perfect world. As long as the take-it-there-now principle is followed, the mess gets smaller and doesn’t become a bigger mess outside the space that once held the clutter. This also allows measurable progress to be achieved, even if you get interrupted.
