I found the same when I first started to be "prepared" I bougght a bunch of stuff then it all got scattered and lost. I rethought my plan and started making an EDC kit and BOB one thing at a time, carefully selecting each item and how it could be used and where it would be kept and slowly over a couple years have built some good kit. Take a slow approach and make being prepared a lifestyle not just a kit with a bunch of stuff thrown in. Sell, give away most of the tiems you have found but one of each and choose that one item carefully, then slowly add to it. Sometimes I add a couple things in a month, sometimes I go 6 months before adding something to a kit because it takes that long to add something I may truely use.