You're lucky it's just your 'spare room' that's cluttered mate!
I live in a tiny house, and maps, books, boots and paraphernalia are usually sharing the floorspace with our meagre furniture and cats!
Interesting question though...
I'd grown up reading about Forteana and the paranormal, amongst other things. Environmental causes and eco-stuff probabley melded with a quasi-religious thang to make me flirt with 'Wicca' in my teenage years.
I think I ended up aligning my interests with a vague 'Earth Mysteries' label.
Paul Bennett's booklet of local sites (amongst other things, like this website) inspired me to get off my arse in my thirties and go see stuff for myself...
Being at the places is better than reading about 'em.
Nowadays, I'm not so bothered about racing around the country ticking 'em off in my 'Eye-Spy Book of Megalithic Sites'. I like to take my time and do, as my teenage son says, 'whatever'.
:-D