Honestly, people throw out very good furniture and usable stuff out all the time! Even leave em to the curb on the street, someone will pick it up.
Back in college and I was moving out of my studio department, instead of throwing my furniture out to the dumpster I decided to kind of leave them by the door with a note "free to take" along with my small lego set pieces. They were gone in a manner of hours, understandably since 90% of the people living there were also fellow college students lol