You must have some messy rooms with all these hardware parts lying around.

I always try to get rid of these secondary machines to have more room for, hm, living and working. I like it better to use my time for painting, modeling and programming.
But I think this is a matter of money. As I was younger I used to repair my car and to build my own computer hardware. It was no fun to me but saved lots of money.

But there is still one desktop and 2 laptops in our household.