You may do anything you want with it but you said it all in your own statement: "it's a total waste of space".
If you don't mind carting around this stuff then yes, keep it but my experience over the past 40 years is that I've carted around a lot of useless junk. I look at the boxes and all I really see is pocket change. Nobody would buy it except at face value and to me, that's just junk coins which are better served drawing the pittance of interest that most banks offer today.
Yep! If you save it along with 999 more and then put them in a $50 Mint bag, they will make a great door stop. Chris