Co-op 'divi' number

Yes, I can remember my Mum's, and took it over when she died. It was a 4 digit number in those days.

Yes and it can be annoying when I can't even remember where I put my glasses.

My Nan's was 104949. Even as a small child, down the Co-op in our part of London, it was easy to remember. I was often sent alone to get odd bits of shopping.

I also use my mother's number as a password and the phone number of the second place I worked from the age of 18 as the code for the tiny safe I keep documents in in my wardrobe.
Just against fire you understand not my ill gotten gains.

35630 was my mum's. I can't remember where my keys are, but I can remember that and my NI number off by heart.

Yes, I remember my Mum's, and like others, use it as a password for some things. I should probably let family know, as when I depart, nobody would even think, or know, of this number.

Can still remember my mums too, but never use it but it would be a good password for when it flashs up, your password is not the right one grrrr, I get a lot of that!!

I can remember my gran’s number and her phone number when it still had an exchange name. Good idea to use for passwords.

My memory worries me sometimes, but i still remember my mums coop no. As well as then boyfriend, now husbands, first car reg. Useful for all the special passwords we seem to need these days.

I can remember my Mum’s number too. Memories of buying cottage rolls on a Friday and walking to my Grandmothers house for lunch.

I have had a mobile phone for many years, always the same number, but if someone asks, i havnt got a clue.

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My mom's Co-op number is engraved on my brain. I won't repeat it here because I might use it for a password in future (something which hadn't occurred to me before so thanks, Bathsheba, for planting the notion).

Military wives from the previous generation always remember their husbands pay no. Apparently every time they bought something from the NAAFI they had to quote that number.

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Everyone in our family, of a certain age, remembers their mum's divi number! She used to send us to the Co-op for shopping and say 'don't you dare forget to give them the divi number'.

Yes exactly KatyK - I think we all had our mum's numbers drilled into us on pain of death . I think it was printed out on the receipt so there was no getting away with it if you forgot!

My mum never had a co-op number. I had one when I was a student, but I can't remember it now.
My passwords and pin numbers are from the 4 figure telephone numbers I had to learn as a child, our own, and 2 lots of grandparents. In those days you had to know the exchange too if it wasn't in the same town

I remember both my mothers divi number and my husbands army number. They are used more now than ever before for my passwords, PIN numbers etc.

My Dad remembered his till the day he died. My Mum used to get cross with him (he was a bit stingy!) and say that he was an old skinflint always wanting his "divi". She made him promise not to use the co-op to bury her.

When that time came Dad picked a private funeral director but when they presented the bill they asked is he had a co-op number as it turns out they were affiliated to them - we all thought this was hilarious!

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Yes Bathsheba My mum really needed her divi!

Yes, remember it, a 5-digit number.

The divi was substantial. It was claimed, I think, at set times. It was a day's wait, it seemed, in the queue. But worth the wait. When the divi ended and stamps were introduced, the value of the stamps were worth only half the divi would have been.