I'll also keep my decks around forever. I'm a bit disappointed I didn't have anki before, and don't have any decks for those things I learned previously in life. It's rather convenient for picking up things, at the point you left them. When you go through all the due cards with largest interval first, you have a very convenient way of going through it in an order that builds up your knowledge, starting with those things that are easy for you, and let you ease into it again. And I'm sure there is going to be a point in my life, where Japanese won't get as much attention as it used to get and my skill will subside. Just like my skill in French and German did since I hardly get exposed to those languages anymore.
For Japanese I put everything in one deck. But as I go, I do think I'll take some things out of it, like the kanji and vocab decks for jlpt 4 an 3, the Japanese for Busy people deck I started with. But that's just to keep the number of cards down. Most of my Japanese for Busy people and the kanji's for jlpt 4 and 3, already have an interval of a view years. So I hardly get bothered with those anyway.