Usually called the doctor. Or the caretaker.

What may look like clutter around me is actually meaningful piles of stuff. Well, some of it is meaningful piles of stuff, which I keep there, appropriately or not, because that's where I know to find it/will be dealing with it/etc.

I also had a brief flash of scanning to disk and then discarding my vast array of files of research materials. And then thought that in the time that* would take I could probably write 3 heavily-researched books and numerous articles...

*I'm an archivist: I know something about digitising non-digital materials...**
**Which is, it takes a lot longer than you would think, even without the necessity of creating metadata so that you can find the scans again.