Late to this party but
There's a difference between "messy" and "dangerous". If you can't see it under and'/or amidst the chips, curlies and debris - you can't find it and/or you can avoid tripping on it.
If it's on or in the wood alley of a table saw, planer, joiner or shaper and it causes you to lose your concentration and control of the task of moving wood over or into spinning sharp things - it's DANGEROUS.
If its sharp or heavy, and precariously balanced - it will, more often than probability would indicate - fall on or into your foot/ knee/ head - and then roll under something heavy and come to rest in close proximity to something that stings or bites or stinks. That's dangerous.
If you have to move EVERYTHING in order to do anything that's not dangerous but damned inconvenient. And this one's my nemesis. I've got the power tools and hand tools under control - they all have homes I return them to when not needed - right now. But scraps from a project - as well as the previous projects, which MIGHT have some future use - accumulate - on every flat surface above the ground
-as well as on the ground. And roughed to rounds that have split or cracked accumulate - though in all likelyhood there's really nothing that can be salvaged. They're dangerous because, by their very nature, they tend to roll unless constrained.
I'm working on two solutions.
One is a couple of plastic kitchen garbage cans - the tall recatangular ones. Unless it's ebony or rosewood, scraps go in a garbage/debris "can" and out with the weekly garbage.
The other fix involves neighborhood kids. They LOVE the dust collector. Holding a 4" hose that'll suck flies out of the air from a foot away, or spiders and spider webs made to vanish -Look - MAGIC! Combine the 1100 CFM (nominal, it's actually more like 700 cfm if that) with a pair of kid sized brooms and you've created a Kid's Heaven - noise, (the dust collector itself, the sound of large volumes of air rushing into the end of the hose, and the neat sound of stuff rattling in the hose then through the ABS dust collector "ducting" - shear joy.) - AND a sense of accomplishment "I cleaned this WHOLE shop!"
So solution two sometimes means digging through the cyclone lidded separator can with a magnate to find a metal part that is needed elsewhere - but that's worth a) getting the shop cleaned up and b) watching kids have fun.
charlie b