[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Eric, after each purchase you got a little coloured slip......they were coloured different for each quarter of the year - each divi season....because the divi was paid quarterly, then it went to half yearly.
Our divi slips were put on a bill hook which lived on a nail at the back of the pantry door.
When divi payout was coming up, my mother(financial brain of the family) would take down the bill hook and carefully take off all the stubs and would work out how much had been spent over the quarter....so that she knew to the penny how much divi she had coming.
Invariably, the money was spent before it ever landed(in her head, if nowhere else).
Though sometimes there was enough for a treat.