I'm a bit of a packrat and more on the bachelor-y side of cleanliness for my home. I clean daily but things still manage to look cluttered. My office currently looks like a computer recycling facility, though.
I'm trying to organize and tidy things up as much as I can, because when you don't know for sure what you've got, it leads to you buying the same damn thing again by accident.
I try to purge unnecessary things from my life as often as I can. Its difficult with the electronic gear, though, because you usually have a narrow window to sell it. Then it becomes clutter. After a long enough period, it is someone's retro system. 😉
I'm currently fighting the desire to get the gear to put together a 486 vlb system. I have a P-Pro and a regular 486dx2-66, my Tandy and my more modern systems. There really isn't anything I could do with the VLB system that I wouldn't be able to do with the P-Pro, though. But, the back of my mind I keep thinking "you may not be able to get the parts, if you wait long enough". Still, I have no practical use for it, most of my DOS games with the exception of 1 or 2 are from 95-99, so there is not a huge need to put together a 486 VLB system. I just can't get over that feeling that it may be impossible to get the parts later on. Or, more likely, get them at a price that I would care to pay.
And ultimately, other than the feeling of tinkering with the retro hardware itself, I'm sure in 5 years time any $200 budget box will be able to emulate anything I could possibly care to mess with. I don't like the current trend of games heading towards movie type experiences or shooters on rails, and there is a huge backlog of stuff I have yet to get to, so I could see myself being perfectly fine with 3 or 4 systems, one of them being a daily driver. And at least with Windows boxes, particularly internet connected machines, it seems like there is so much damn maintenance, so there is definitely a point where the things start to "own" you.