@Pghulme: Haha, I've been there mate.
But don't loose hope, and hang on to your stuff still, because there will be a time, a couple years down the road, when you'll be emerging again to the world and find you can have a bit of a hobby again.
If you get rid of your stuff in between, you'll be sorry later.
But what might happen also is that you may have to surrender space from your "man cave", to accommodate for the kids' needs (namely, bedrooms).
And strangely enough, I find women on average are relatively unsympathetic to a man's plea for hobby space, when it comes to babies...
I mean, babies are small enough to fit in a drawer for some time, they don't need need as much space as, say an Amiga 2000, so come on !!!
Sorry for the off-topic, you started it ;-)