When was the last time you wrote a check?

I write a check every month for my rent. They are supposed to change to a new system but I don't know when, haven't heard anything yet.

I also write a check here and there to charitable causes.
 

I'm returning to writing more checks. Hackers are so concerned about the electronic market, they pass on the paper now. I had a credit card and a debit card frauded a couple weeks ago... I have never had a bad check written on my account by some hacker.
 
dseag2 said:
My credit card company offers up to 3% cash back so I pay every bill I can with that card and just pay the balance off each month. All of my utilities and even car insurance go on the card. Why not receive a discount on all these payments?
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Ditto....Anything over $50 goes on the Visa.....
 

Ellen Marie said:
I'm returning to writing more checks. Hackers are so concerned about the electronic market, they pass on the paper now. I had a credit card and a debit card frauded a couple weeks ago... I have never had a bad check written on my account by some hacker.
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I had a check stolen out of our mail box it was for under $20. They "white washed it" and made it $425.00. Luckly a teller called me when they were trying to cash the check. Got the check back from the bank and gave it to our police..they had many more.

Now I do not put checks in our mail box. If the flag on the mail box is up the crooks know that there might be a check in the box.
 
Just wrote one about 4 days ago. It was a damage deposit on a nice apartment that I am moving to. I don't write many cheques anymore but maybe 3 or 4 every year.
 
Uptosnuff said:
The last check I wrote was a few days ago. I am on a bowling league and it was the first time to bowl this season. I wrote a check for the lane fee and the sanction fee and put it in the envelope. I could have paid cash, but didn't have that much. Also, I write a check every month for my water bill that is due to our water association. There have been a lot of complaints that we still have to use checks.

I pay most of my routine bills online but I still write a surprising amount of checks for different types of payments.
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If you have an address on your bill you can set it up in your online banking & they will mail them a check out of whichever account you tell them to.

I have several that don't take plastic but will take checks. So I set them up in my bill paying on my bank & I just go line go to that place & fill in the amount & then it shows they will send them a check but it might take 5 days to get to them.

No charge to me but the bank pays the postage to them for the check. When I get my statement there are the pictures of the checks they sent out from my checking account showing they were cashed.
 
@Tom 86 I know what you mean, but my HOA has a water association that we have to send the checks to. In order to pay my water bill every month, I have to:
1. Go outside to the water meter on my property, note the water usage for the month.
2. Do a whole bunch of calculations to determine how much to pay for that month. We have a formula that we have developed that will pay the electric company, (for the pump to get the water to us), pay the city for the water and put money into our water account for future repairs that might need to be made to the system.
3. Write the check, put it and the calculations sheet in an envelope and drop it off at the water assoc. treasurer's house.

It wouldn't work to have the bank send the check because I wouldn't be able to include the calculations sheet. And by the time I do all the other steps, writing the check is the easy part. :) Every homeowner has to calculate their own water bill and send it in every month. Pain in the a$$.
 
I write 4 checks a month--maintenance; 2 credit cards and my landline bill. Since the pandemic, I use my cards constantly, even for minuscule amounts. My son & dil generously pay my tv bills and cell phone. Don't know if they write checks.
 
If I have a bill that isn’t paid automatically, I use e-transfer. The company is set up in my list of Payees. I barely remember what a stamp & envelope are.
 
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