The perfect season-ending Dani Blacks popping up on clearance. A stray twenty in an ex-paramour’s long-forgotten hoodie. Life’s surprises can be so sweet.

Especially when they come in the form of candy arrangements delivered by Valerie Weitzner of Buckhead Candy Company.

A lingering sweet tooth (and an insatiable love of hard-to-find candy) led the Buckhead mom to start the company, which will customize and deliver gift baskets with standards (gum balls, Swedish Fish) or obscure faves (party favors made of mint-flavored malted milk balls). Just name the occasion and the candies you’re after; she’ll track down the goods and take care of the rest.

If you prefer to indulge in the privacy of your own home, pick up one of the ready-made baskets she sells to boutiques around town. Just know that she’d rather customers use their imaginations and spoil themselves a little.

Hey, you’ve got to spend that twenty somehow.

Buckhead Candy Co. (770-951-9091 or valerie@buckheadcandycompany.com). Also available at Sprong Children’s Shoes, 375 Pharr Road, suite 501, Buckhead (404-846-8506).