Do you have a standard of living you want to upkeep without having to work around your pile of stuff?
Do you consider some items not of good enough quality to be owned and maintained by you?
Do you not want to see the world burn and the source of your collection to fail so you can’t collect anymore?
Congrats you have standards and can collect away.
This just means you let stuff just add on the pile, right?
That, and I occasionally pull things out of the pile then put them back on top, so they slowly organically sort into having the most frequently used things on top. I also have multiple piles that organically evolve into specializations. For example, I never intended to have a “old specialized cables” pile, but it emerged from the bottom of the “old hardware I seldom use” when I transplanted all the top stuff into a new discrete “electronics I might salvage someday” pile. It’s not a good system 🙃
Yeah… That sounds like neither a collection nor a hoard but just a…
Pile of stuff.
Only you can prevent your pile of stuff from becoming a hoard, keep on subdividing those piles.
Ah a fellow electronics I might salvage someday collector! They call us hoarders but one day we’ll replace those faulty caps / learn to micro solder / source a very specific and difficult to find component and then oh boy will we have saved the cost of replacing that thing that we’ve done without for the last several years!