Indeed very sad. Even sadder when you realize the time, effort, and money that each represents. All of my early models were destroyed by my kids who "played" with them. My later built models, aircraft and armour, are in cases and protected for now. When Old Nick finally comes to get me??? Who knows. The same goes for all the "stuff" I brought back from Vietnam. As I mentioned once before I approached several museums and received the same reply: "We'll take it but do with it what we want" including in the trash. Several of them have yearly "yard" sales where they sell "excess" stuff.
"One man's treasure is another man's junk"