Some might call this work "theft" - but it wasn't like our mother was going to be paying anything with the shrapnel at the bottom of her bags.
Whatever you need to tell yourself XD
It's usually my kids that are throwing coins in the bottom of the bag, they ask if they can have money for whatever and I say sure just grab it out of the wallet, they grab it out of the wallet but while they could be bothered grabbing the wallet to get the money out they sure as hell can't be bothered getting it back out to put the change in XD Both they and I have managed to scrape enough together for the "medically required" chocolate bar when we're late at gym and the little black holes suddenly realise they didn't eat enough before going.
And just like your candy change I'm sure there's an investment analogy in there somewhere.
unlike your candy change I don't think we could have ever gotten that much for that much, everything had to be flown in where I'm from so everything was always expensive