Pacifier Count - How goes the battle

I was 30 pacifiers away from getting my first set of bonus donuts. There were no more bears in my town so I thought I'd just do a couple neighbor visits to get exactly 4,000 and not waste any pacifiers. I visited a couple neighbors and got to 3,989/4,000 pacifiers when my iPhone's low battery message popped up. I cleared it but it kicked me back to my main town where the weekly bonus box prize popped up: you guessed it, 500 pacifiers!

So I wasted 489 pacifiers. I couldn't have wasted that many if I tried.