I quite like Steve Pavlina’s timeboxing method to get rid of tedious tasks. It applies whether you have boring code monkey work to be cracking on with or a pile of junk in the closet at home you need to sort through.
tl;dr of the link: Timeboxing means allocate a time slice, then work, cutting out what would put you behind. It is meant to get rid of the motivation for procrastination, by not making the tedious task take up more time than it is worth. Besides tedious tasks, timeboxing can be used to make a dent in something complicated enough that you don’t know where to begin.