What Have I Gotten Myself Into?!

My set-up while sorting

Dirty Hands :/ 

After collecting all of the Rice Bowls it was time to break them open! Boy was that a task...(nice if you needed to get a little bit of anger out though!) So at the beginning of this week I had some friends at school helping me break open the bowls and sorting the change into quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies, dollar bills, and the random Great Wolf Lodge or other coins from around the world (those won't exactly help but that's ok). I eventually brought them home and just had to sit down for a few hours to get it all done because it was hard to do it at school considering classes were always changing. At home I laid everything out and just went to town sorting the change. My dad helped me a little bit but for the most part I did it on my own. My hands turned black from sorting the money...no joke...money is disgusting. I even washed my hands several times in between sorting the change. This morning one of my dads friends that works at a bank said that he and people that he works with would love to count all of the money once they heard what it was for...so I dropped all of the money off this morning to be counted and they are going to be counting it in their spare time and would get the final count of how much there is back to me as soon as they can! I was very overwhelmed by all the money that was brought back and all that I did was sort it but that was very exciting! I can't wait to hear the grand total and will let everyone know as soon as I find out! :)

Bags of lots and lots of change all sorted out. 

Smashed Rice Bowls ready to be sorted