Does the content in your bags define how you play?

As mentioned earlier I am an altoholic, and the last week I have been roaming through my bags and reflecting a little over what I found in the and compared it to how I play with them. It would be natural to think that a toon with loads of materials is a farmer, a character with stacks of flasks and alternative non-PvP gear is a PvE gamer, and the reverse a PvP-gamer. And a character with a load of alternative costumes a roleplayer. But what I found was a little different than what I expected.

My farmers bags were usually empty, the materials were stocked in the bank of the toons that produce items. These toons are usually also the players I do PvE with, so add Flasks and gear to this. But also some PvP-gear on the toons I play most, as to grab some of the PvP-items is often a part of gearing for PvE. Add more gear to toons that handle multiple roles (tanking/healing/dps). I do not have any pure PvP-toons, so I lack this setup to have as a reference. My bank toon used to be stacked with loads of materials for levelling professions, but during a spring cleaning earlier this year I sold off most of these materials and opened up some more bank space. I also noticed that farming toons were the ones with the huge material bags to make sure there would be room for huge stacks those few times I had to take a few hours of farming.

So yeah, the content does tell me a lot about what I use my players for and often says a little about how I play them. Now this might seems very obvious, but I started to wonder if I would change the way I play my toons if the content suddenly changed. Would I try out a bit more PvP if I suddenly discovered some hard core PvP-gear in my bags? Could additional random drops add diversity to my game? I am quite certain I would try to find a use for an extremely rare type of material that was required to make an item, but at the same time I am not sure as to what extent I would actually change they way I play to accommodate the content in my bags.