As someone who's a bit of a hoarder in video games, not wanting to throw anything away in case it has significance later, I kind of dislike this trend of "junk items" whose only purpose is to sell for small amounts of gold. Largely because I'm always worried that when I do sell it, I'll find out later that I could have given it to someone to initiate a quest, or a specific character needs it for some reason or other.
Moral of the story: Cut it out with junk items that sound like they could be important items.