Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Useless items - Keep, Improve or Kill?

Collecting 1000 spons and glasses and selling them is an optional choice that you choose to take.
You're free to ignore the items if you feel that they are junk. Most of them even have an extremely low vendor value precisely to not make you feel encouraged (or as you probably feel, forced) to pick them up for the sole purpose of selling them to the nearest NPC.