I reckon everyone has a little personal ritual when it comes to emptying their pockets, especilly if you’re doing it just before you go to bed. I usually put my battered wallet on the bedside locker first and then my mobile phone and then scoop any change from my pocket and toss it into an old ashtray that’s a relic from my parents home (I don’t smoke and I can’t remember how it got there, but it’s been there for years now). That done I sometimes separate the 1 and 2 euro coins from the rest and toss the small stuff into some other receptacle – at the moment it’s a silicone phone cover that has been decomissioned – because those coins will find their way into a jar and be given to charity or the grandkids…