Nickel for a used pen lady?

When I was a school bus driver, I must have found on my bus, a couple of hundred lost pens and pencils. Everyday kids would lose them, and we usually would put them inside in a cup or use some for ourselves. Maybe I should have sold them, the kids never cared they just went home and told their parents they needed some new ink pens. They hardly ever claimed anything they lost except the cell phone. You need that every minute when you are a teenager. You would not even get back to the bus yard before they called you on the radio and asked if you found a phone, since they blended in with the chrome seat belt latches we did not always see them.