Every year for 2 decades, us kids got a £3 cheque from ex-in-Law Grandma and Grandad.
Mum got a £5 cheque.
Every Birthday and Christmas
These were small feed even all those years ago, and wouldn't justify a special trip to Town to pay them into our accounts. So they were 'parked' on top of the chest-high fridge-freezer in the kitchen for 'safety', along with Utility bills and other important pending paperwork
Weeks or months would go by and G&G would enquire why they were not showing as cashed on their bank statement.
Often we mysteriously couldn't find them and had to fess up and replacements were sent.
Spring Cleaning every year or two often revealed them behind the fridge-freezer.
Happened many times. What an ungrateful family we were