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[Fallout] Why are there still skeletons just lying around in populated areas?

I understand that the people in Paradise Falls might not care, it adds to their image. But the bathrooms in Little Lamplight have a skeleton just lying in the middle.

I was also wondering, in the many decades since the bombs fell, why do people still hold onto burnt/destroyed books? The Brotherhood don't bother with them, they even pay strangers a hefty fee to recover Pre-war condition books.
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A destroyed world is all most people alive today has ever really known. It doesn't occur to them to clean up everything - and there isn't much nice to fill the space. Most places do move their skeletons at least, but there's still tonnes of rubbish and debris that get left because its just so normal for them to be there. Maybe the kids in Little Lamplight just don't want to touch a skeleton, maybe they believe in ghosts and that they shouldn't be disturbed. 

With the books, nobody wants to just get rid of them because there are still odd scraps of letters in them here and there. Even if msot information is lost, maybe one day a page or two that survived may be useful. Plus they can be used to help teach children to read.