I do not know how other people do, but I use my little spoon.
OK silly reference to a joke about consultants, may be only known in France sorry
More to the point I simply do :
sub EVENT_ITEM
{
plugin::return_items(\%itemcount);
}
and it works. I saw in another thread it could be done as a default for all NPCs without quests (and may be it is in PEQ right now).