How many LP's

I peaked a few years ago with around 14,000. Gave a couple thousand to a friend, had a broker sell some (he dealt with the listings and I got 50%), nothing terribly valuable, and when we sold our house, I culled more- so I didn’t have to move crap I wasn’t going to listen to, or 2nd or 3rd or 4th copies of stuff I had better pressings of--I figure 5,000 were transported to Tx. I had some records stashed here, and of course, more comes in -dribs and drabs-
I go record "shopping" in my own stacks I haven’t been through for years. The last several years I’ve been on a hard rock thing- not "classic" rock, but post-psych, pre-prog, proto metal. I’m now dipping back into my classical records (old EMI ASDs, Deccas, Londons), and I have taken an interest in so-called "spiritual jazz" which is a nice change from the usual warhorses.
I’d rather have quality over quantity, but something to be said for tens of thousands of records to browse through if you have the space. Not sure I’d go out today with that goal in mind, my pile was the accumulation of decades.

Over the years, I organized the records in my own way; different people have different ways of doing this. There was, and remains, a sort of "dumping ground" section for copies I rejected at one point, or duplicates of records that aren’t terribly valuable. Though I got rid of a lot of that when I moved, I didn’t completely eliminate my own "bargain bin"--it’s where I plunder sometimes. I did create a fairly detailed schedule of the more valuable records, by box number, as I packed them. It didn’t necessarily list everything within a category, but enough so I knew what was there, and highlighted the stuff I was most concerned with losing.
When I arrived in Austin, I originally started shelving stuff, and sticking post-its on the shelf sections that corresponded to the "inventory." But, since then, I’ve done much more arranging- main stream rock by alphabet, obscure prog now has several shelves, ditto Beatles, Zep, etc.
The classical stuff I haven’t combed through yet. Some "audiophile" stuff in the "audiophile" records section- e.g. old D2D, and most of the EMI ASDs are now on a couple shelves, but still lot’s to do.
As to memory, that's one reason why I re-buy the same exact pressing. I forgot I had it, or looked for it and couldn’t find it, so bought another. (Usually not expensive stuff).

@trytone I marked my calendar for the early entry day. I know Doug and met him for the first time several years ago. I will stop by to say hello.