Else you will end up like me
I started with the short lathe bed back when they first came out.
I got lots of accessories and then they came out with the long bed, so I had to get one of those, plus plenty of spare parts. Then they released the mill so of course I got one of those too
After playing with these for a few years and thinking about mods to them. special mandels for the sherline collets etc I finally got a 7x14 chinese lathe and a micro mill, I am still buying accessories, got my eye on a ER32 MT3 collet set for my next addition.
Pretty soon your next house MUST have a shed, number of bedrooms don't matter as long as it has a nice big shed
Today I was still modifying the short bed lathe to fit on my micro mill as an indexing adapter for gear cutting using some micro lathe gears from Jaycar as the index wheels. I was even using the Clisby lathe to turn it's own mandel, a bit slow after the 7x14 but turning 19mm steel is possible. My next stage is to CNC everything.
Run, run away, do not turn around and think about these machines ever again, they are totally addictive. Now of course if you have a spare $10k lying around this will set you up nicely with all the accessories you will ever need. Hmm wonder how much a big CNC mill costs, hmm better get a bigger shed hehehe.