That "coffee fund is basically free" line made me laugh because I do the exact same thing at the laundromat by my place. There's a row of machines and the coin return slots always have quarters people forgot, I probably pull out three or four bucks a week just checking them while my stuff runs. It adds up way faster than you'd expect, so you're definitely not digging in the wrong spots.

Breaking news: man discovers that doing one thing well beats doing twenty things badly, more at 11. There's probably a life lesson buried in your garage sale rice cooker but I'm too busy laughing at the fact that Target owes you $56. It's wild how we keep buying gadgets with more buttons and then the dumbest, cheapest option just quietly does the job better. Next you're gonna tell me a $2 rock from the creek makes a better doorstop than the fancy one with the rubber grip.

My uncle ran a pizza place in Reno and his two dollar slice deal just made folks stop buying whole pies.