Many years ago I was a laborer for the guy who had the contract to upgrade the county courthouse. He tore out all the 1"X10" solid oak baseboards and quarter round and my job was to haul it from where he tore it out to the dumpster. There was three floors of the stuff from about ten court rooms, so there was a lot of board feet every night. Every night for about 3 weeks I was taking boards home. I stacked it inside our barn until my friends came to get some.
I threw the quarter round in the dumpster and stacked the boards neatly along side the dumpster and took it home with me after I got done with work. I had plenty of friends who wanted it for their projects, so I gave it away. Back then, used wood just wasn't a "thing". I just couldn't stand the thought of it going to the dump.