I can understand that point of view quite well. Two years ago my Grandmothers husband was moved into an assisted living facility. Pretty bad dementia. Anyway she was moving into a smaller place and needed to get rid of a lot of stuff. She invited me to go through his tools and see if there was anything that I wanted. I think I walked away with close to 300 pounds of old, well used and well cared for hand tools that I will keep and use. The one thing that I really don't have the space or use for is an old hand auger and a ton of bits. I knew she would be sending a lot to the junk dump. I just wanted to find this really nice tool a home. Someday I will. I'd even give it to someone who was going to use it on a regular basis.
I particulary like using the small hand ax. This thing has got to have some stories behind it, I'll just never know what they are.