I wrote a check today

[Brookswood]

I wrote a check today that I mailed to a friend whom I owed money.

The previous check was written three months ago.

 

[papa tiger]

My Wifes best friend never pays her back. They been best friends for 50 years.

 

[Sciguy]

I still pay all my bills by check.

 

[Teacher Terry]

Only my chiropractor and groomer still want checks. If I need to pay a friend I use Zelle.

 

[Jace]

I writes check Only..
if can't pay online.
some haven't come to that yet.

 

[Marie5656]

I pay all bills online. Only check I ever need to write now is when I pay the service fee for my medic alert button. If you want to pay them with debit or credit you have to call them and give the info'
Oh, and last month I paid a check to service guy who came to fix my lift chair, and put a new motor in, He was not allowed to take cash and did not have means to accept a card

 

[Marie5656]

Only my chiropractor and groomer still want checks. If I need to pay a friend I use Zelle.

Is that like Pay Pal??

 

[Teacher Terry]

Is that like Pay Pal??

You use it through your bank. You should only use it to pay people you know because once the money is transferred there’s no way to reverse it. Both people have to be signed up with Zelle.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

We never write cheques.

 

[January]

I never do either - cheques are all but disappeared in Australia and the bank doesnt even issue cheque books any more.

About 2 years ago I used up my last one and that was it.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

You owed someone money! I think of you as someone who would be the lender. I normally only write two checks a month. One is for our HOA dues and the other for my honorary daughter's rent. She Cash Apps me the money beforehand.

 

[mrstime]

In December I write 12 checks for our pad rent. Then I don't have to worry about it again until December. That is the only checks I write.

 

[stretch5881]

Almost all my bills I pay with a check. I want a paper trail, which has come in handy in the past.

 

[mathjak107]

we write checks for the grand kids birthdays .

other then that everything is paid on line

 

[hollydolly]

In the Uk Checks are this...

....Cheques, on the other hand are almost Obsolete here...

 

[OneEyedDiva]

In December I write 12 checks for our pad rent. Then I don't have to worry about it again until December. That is the only checks I write.

What if you have to move months before it's time tonpay again (?)

 

[Manatee]

I have never paid anything online. Wouldn't know how.

 

[Gary O']

I only write checks for purchases of property, and those are cashier's checks (cheques, chex.....whatever)

 

[rgp]

Almost all my bills I pay with a check. I want a paper trail, which has come in handy in the past.

I agree here .... and do the same.

 

[feywon]

Because i live in a very small town and it is very convenient to drop checks off at Utilities' offices every month i write 2 checks, electric co-op and water dept. Other things online, and debit card in stores.

 

[dilettante]

I don't write as many today. Mostly things like property tax payments and water & sewer bills I can insert into a Township dropbox, though they are trying to force paperless billing now too. Annoyingly they add fees if paying by card, so I'm going to be stubborn and use my checking account numbers instead.

I pay food bank and homeless shelter donations by check. I also wrote checks when distributing some cash reserves to my kids as "early inheritance" to avoid taxes by using the annual gift tax exclusion of the tax code.

 

[Mobilman44]

While I'm a big fan/user of PayPal, my routine monthly bills are paid via check. I fully realize that most online payments are safe (?), but until I have to change, I will continue loving the "paper trail".

As an aside.... in 1985 my employer (Mobil Oil) implemented direct deposit of paychecks. You signed up for it when you wanted but were urged more and more to do so. Within three or four months, my office of 50 people were all signed up - except for two individuals. Yup, I was one of the two. Guess who the other one was? Yes, hard to believe but it was the big guy, the General Manager. By the sixth month we were enlisted.

Interesting to know was our doubts were not unfounded. Three (of the 48 that signed up early) had their checks mis-routed. As we got paid monthly, that was a huge deal for them.