I use to have a lot of 'Hot Wheels' and 'Matchbox' cars when I was little. When I grew up (though I still feel like a child at heart) and grew out of playing with them, I put them in storage. Later on after my son was born and he was old enough to play with small hard toys, I took them out of storage, cleaned them up, and gave them to him (big mistake on my part, as he destroyed most of them)

Though some were not well taken care of anyway, but there were a few that were still in mint condition.