How many paper check do you normally write in a month?

Tour2ma

Barring any FM purchases and the like, I'm down to one, my city utility bill. And that's only because I am not confident enough in their security to give them my bank info. That and the CS gal is kinda cute...

Mortgage is auto-draft, almost all other ultilities and services go to my CC, which I pay on-line.

The check printing biz has got to be one, insecure as hell sector to be in these days.

BlueMDPicker

I don't quite average 1/month. I do electronic bill pay through my bank, or use a check card.

Tour2ma

LOL... well, this was going to be a poll, but saw a typo in the title and that was that...

Carry on...

nadams

In December I wrote 5 checks.

When I have to buy a computer's worth of parts I use a buddies business card, because none of my cards have high enough limits on them. I pay him with a check, usually two or three times a month.

Then I have my health insurance, which I just haven't made electronic because it's only temporary, and a check to my dad each month because my truck is in his name and I have to make the payment and insurance payments to him .

My two credit cards I do online, but it comes out of checking. And paypal comes out of checking...

bobman1235

Three - gas and electric, just because I had too many problems getting their online billing to work (annoying) , and one of my student loans insists on not going electronic (doubly annoying).

danger boy

i'd say i write about 4 or 5 a month.

RuSsMaN

Same boat Bruce. One, local utils. - well, actually two, car insurance - I don't trust those gals down at Farmers to do it right (without my stamp of approval).

Cheers,
Russ

cfrizz

I write 0 checks! I do all my banking online through Quicken. The only time I have to go inside the bank is if someone sends me a check.

TroyD

In ten years of marriage, I'll bet I've written less than five checks.

I don't know that I've actually seen our check book in the new millenium.

BDT

MacLeod

My wife pays the utilities and I pay the rent and thats the only check I write a month. Cell phone, car insurance are paid online and car payment is paid over the phone.

I got checks when I opened up my current account back in November 2003, and Ive got 3 left!

Viva le Checkcard!

RuSsMaN

Troy, have you seen your sack in the new millenium, or does she keep that locked up for ya too?

Come to think of it, every check I've gotten for gear throughout the years was from Wendi. Matter of fact, Henry (Bomber) is the same way. Every peice of gear he has bought, was paid for by the Mrs.

I got hoes in different area codes.

TroyD

I get visitation every other Sunday.....

I have ZERO interest in having the checkbook. ZERO.

BDT

whitetruk

i write tons of checks monthly,i`m new to this computer stuff.kind of been afraid but what i read, i think i`ll try my utillity bills on line.

billbillw

I wright one, the Gas bill, and a bi-monthly one for garbage pickup. Everything else is through B of A Bill-Pay.
My wife, however, is constantly wrighting checks for various crap. $5 here and there. It drives me crazy. I tell her just to take cash out of the ATM.

Sami

0. I didn't write a single check when I lived in Finland, everything is done electronically, in real-time transactions. Actually seeing a checkbook was like going back to the 70's.

unc2701

One, here. The 20 part of my 80/20 mortgage is though some backwoods bank that doesn't have anything online.

Early B.

Still old fashioned. Pay all bills with checks.

Driver

i write 2, one for the phone bill and one for the electric bill

dorokusai

The wife handles all that stuff, albeit I'm certainly capable but I prefer to just spend money until she yells at me. We do most of our transactions online. Anything that is brought to me via the actual earth, phone...energy...etc, is paid with a check. Why? I have no idea.

I HATE the person in front of me at the supermarket, that fails to join the 21st century and takes 10 minutes to write a check. Let it go ****!


.....and you to EarlyB!!

masanz1

garbage, phone, water, electric, school lunches, so that makes 5

heiney9

Only for the occasional car repair bill. Everything else is done on-line or thru billpay at my bank.

H9

swerve

one - car insurance.

wish I could pay it online.

wodom1

The only check I write each month is for my rent. Electricity, car payment, car & rental insurance, cable, and phone are all automatically drafted out of my account. I use my debit card for 99% of my purchases.

Pablo

I pay all my bills on line. I use Bank of America (used to be Fleet). If you have a bank account, there really is no reason to write a check. When you pay on-line, all they do is print a check an mail it (unless they are set up electroniclly with the company, then it's an electronic transfer which is quicker). I even paid my football pool winnings out with it.

I also try to put as many bills that I can on my Amex for the points (cable, phone, electric). Then I just set up a automatic payment to amex every month for what that ussually is. This way I am NEVER late with these.

But I do have the same problem as BillBill with the wife constantly writing checks for assorted crap.

polksda

I try to do as much online payments as I can, but here in Bohick, not all service providers accept online payments, and the local Credit Union charges a monthly fee for online bill payments, so I only utilize what the actual service providers offer.

For local purchases (groceries, gas, department stores, Best Buy, etc.) I still use checks a lot. Since I use duplicate checks, I much prefer this to using a debit card. I don't have to remember to write things down; I always have the carbon copy.

Sami

polksda wrote:

and the local Credit Union charges a monthly fee for online bill payments, so I only utilize what the actual service providers offer.

I'd rather pay the few buck and have the convinience of filling everything out online instead of writing a check. It doesn't take that many checks to save the amount in postal fees.

bobman1235

Pablo wrote:

I pay all my bills on line. I use Bank of America (used to be Fleet). If you have a bank account, there really is no reason to write a check.

So if you don't have a bank account, you... should write checks?

polksda wrote:

For local purchases (groceries, gas, department stores, Best Buy, etc.) I still use checks a lot. Since I use duplicate checks, I much prefer this to using a debit card. I don't have to remember to write things down; I always have the carbon copy.

Please stop. For the love of all THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD, please please stop. Use online banking software to keep track of your debit card purchases. Anyone who is not an old lady over the age of 70 is NOT ALLOWED to write checks at a store. I have told off so many people for being rude and taking up everyone's time just so they can save themselves 6 seconds of writing when they get home.

HBombToo

I write 0 checks a month since the wife handles the bills. I have no clue on how many checks she writes but its a bunch.

PhantomOG

bobman1235 wrote:

Please stop. For the love of all THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD, please please stop. Use online banking software to keep track of your debit card purchases. Anyone who is not an old lady over the age of 70 is NOT ALLOWED to write checks at a store. I have told off so many people for being rude and taking up everyone's time just so they can save themselves 6 seconds of writing when they get home.

seriously... is there anything worse than getting in line and then seeing that person pull out their checkbook? it makes my blood boil.

even after making you wait while they stand there all day writing out the check and then getting their ID checked, I've seen lots of people continue to stand there while they proceed to go ahead and write the check info into their register/journal thing.

the other day I was at Petsmart near closing and I got in line behind a woman who was just starting to write a check. I must have stood there for 5 minutes and watched another line go through 5 or 6 customers before I left and went to another register. Even then after waiting for a couple more people in front of me I still got out before she did.

They should make a special register just for people who write checks!!!! :mad:

Skynut

Wifey pays all the bills and I write checks for things I buy online ocasionally.
Mainly if I write a check it is to myself. I transfer money to my credit union via checkbook.

And sometimes in the supermarket line if I think the person behind me is going to be pissed for it.:D

HiPerf360

PhantomOG wrote:

seriously... is there anything worse than getting in line and then seeing that person pull out their checkbook? it makes my blood boil.

even after making you wait while they stand there all day writing out the check and then getting their ID checked, I've seen lots of people continue to stand there while they proceed to go ahead and write the check info into their register/journal thing.

the other day I was at Petsmart near closing and I got in line behind a woman who was just starting to write a check. I must have stood there for 5 minutes and watched another line go through 5 or 6 customers before I left and went to another register. Even then after waiting for a couple more people in front of me I still got out before she did.

They should make a special register just for people who write checks!!!! :mad:

Lets see:

Check to albertsons for 366.45 takes me just under 20 seconds to write, date, sign the whole nine yards...

Whats the problem? The people that take forever are going to be slow at everything, including using a check card.