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Personally I've been trending the opposite direction: getting rid of things. We had our first kid about 7 years ago, which has seriously decreased my time for tinkering. I didn't realize it at first, so I kept on picking up projects that interested me, got some pieces for them, organized them, and... they're still there years later. The worst a somewhat sentimental things, that don't really see much use, and are also projects. For example, I bought the boom box of my youth. It's from the 80s (it wasn't new when I had it 25 years ago) and needs some TCL - potentiometers cleaned up, some loose connections run down, etc. It's low on my list of things to fix because it doesn't actually sound that great and cant compete with my Bluetooth speaker.
I was at your stage a little over 10 years ago, renting and moving, kids slowly getting more things. Now they're starting to move out and I've purchased a larger run down house that needs to be filled up. There's some things I regret getting rid of like materials but for the most part I'm happy I don't have so much to keep track of at the moment. The projects I've shelved for some many years are starting to get dusted off again and I'm finally getting back into hobbies and tinkering again. Definitely a good observation on the bluetooth speaker, there's some things it's just not worth putting the effort into unless it's a niche need like a portable cassette player etc. I'm hoping you experience the same thing and get some of that time back in your future to do what you want.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I am holding on to some things in hopes of being able to do with the kids when they're older, but it has been pretty liberating getting rid of some of this stuff.