This all reminds me of when my mum was ill some years ago (she had had an operation, and was offline for several months,) when I was a child. A couple of neighbours came a few times. to help tidy the house/do chores.
No idea why, but they took it upon themselves to clean out the spare room. It was NOTHING to do with them, and it made me cross that they were poking about in there.
When I came home from school one day, I discovered that they had thrown out half of my old childhood toys and games and dolls, and got them taken to the council tip. I was devastated, and couldn't get them back.
As soon as ebay became a thing some quarter of a century later, I started to source the things that had been thrown/binned, and managed to get about 80% of them back, from sellers that sold old retro things. To them it was just 'junk...' To ME it was my childhood. Thankfully, I had all of my late pop music and film idol stuff in my (locked) bedroom, where they couldn't get their filthy paws on it! So I still had all that (and still do!)
How nasty and thoughtless to throw away peoples treasured possessions like this, especially that of a child - like I was, (and the possessions of a mother that she saved from her childrens childhoods.)
I never forgave those 2 women, and I would never forgive my DH if he had ever done anything like this.