Do you use checks?

[The Dude]

When I was growing up, I had no idea what an ATM was. I lived in a small town with no stop lights, at the grocery store, movie rentals, pharmacy, etc, my parents wrote checks.

I've had a debit card pretty much since the day I got to college, about 8 months ago I ran out of checks and haven't gotten new ones since. I can pay just about every bill I have online, almost everywhere I buy something accepts my debit card, really the only check I would write if I had them is for rent, but I just do an online transfer and my roommate pays it (the one time I paid it I went to the bank and got a cashier's check).

so, do you still write checks? (outgoing)

[ShitBreak]

I use one check a month to pay my rent. That's it. Everything else is mainly credit/debit card, with a little cash thrown in.

[Summer]

I've had the same checkbook in my car since last April. My phone and internet bills are the only bills I can't pay online. Occasionally, I'll write one to my sons school for something. Thats about it. I hate being behind someone in a checkout line that uses them.

My boss is so old fashioned that I have to do all the AP stuff at work by hand writing checks, and I despise it. He refuses to modernize.

[nuclearjew]

I only write checks when I'm in the 10 Items or Less line at the grocery store.

[Titus_Pullo]

I write checks so that one of those environmentalist chicks try to change my ways, which leads to debating and finally me changing to e-payments to win her affection. After I am tired of sleeping with her I then go back to paying by checks and the cycle begins anew.

[Smashing]

I haven't written a check in years. My wife does on occasion. I think my dislike of them stems from when I did collections on returned, altered and forged checks.

[UNC]

Prolly a few a month...most of which are electronically entered and handed right back to me

[Trident]

Do you guys not have direct debit to pay your bills and shit? I have probably used about 5 cheques in the last four years.

[ShitBreak]

Do you guys not have direct debit to pay your bills and shit? I have probably used about 5 cheques in the last four years.

I do. Like I said, I pay every single bill online or with direct debit except for rent. School Loans, Cell Phone, Cable/Internet, Gas/Electic, etc. i pay online.

[Trident]

Yeah, I don't need to pay anything each month as I'm too forgetful; I just inspect the damage on the last day of the month.

[ShitBreak]

Luckily, I have my bills set up that I pay the rent with my last paycheck of the month, and then I pay all my bills with the first paycheck of the month. Makes it simple as shit. I've never forgot to pay a bill.

[NOTKyle]

The dude I buy my Thai toddlers from only takes checks, he won't accept credit cards until June.

[heelsguy]

some things you are just better off using a paper check for. but I use my debit card 90% of the time and use billpay for a lot of my electronic bills (water, cable, gas/electric) just because you can pay at the last second before due and not deal with late fees from mail holidays etc.

[Hoser]

One for rent each month.

[BIG PIZZLE]

I pay my bills with checks. It helps me keep a record.

[Kopek]

For rent. For school. For the lady at the massage parlor.

[Hoser]

I pay my bills with checks. It helps me keep a record.

I pay online, they keep a record, and I also keep my own file for each company with each of my payments on record for my own backup.

It is no longer 1987, checks are a dying breed.

[Stax]

I don't. Have a box of em but haven't touched them. My mother used to use them all the time, but now has largely been converted to credit cards.

[Face]

I have never in my life had a chequebook

[BIG PIZZLE]

I pay online, they keep a record, and I also keep my own file for each company with each of my payments on record for my own backup.

It is no longer 1987, checks are a dying breed.

I get a copy of every check I send out. Also, if there is a problem, I can stop the check. Plus I use the memo section for "Medical" and "Balance" notations. It helps my accouting.

[hatepoppy]

i write checks for rent, speeding tickets, and givin the ollady some dough.

[medlar]

I was denied a chequing account until I turn 18. That sucks but even more so, I also have a spending limit of $200 withdrawl on my savings account inspite of my massive savings I have accumulated over the past two and half years from working.

[hatepoppy]

...meaning ur still a children?

[ElemenoP]

I was denied a chequing account until I turn 18. That sucks but even more so, I also have a spending limit of $200 withdrawl on my savings account inspite of my massive savings I have accumulated over the past two and half years from working.
You're from Canada right? You can change your withdrawal limit anytime. Even without a credit check or whatever. It's the holds-on-funds policy that might need a good rating.

[mongo]

One for rent each month.

[medlar]

You're from Canada right? You can change your withdrawal limit anytime. Even without a credit check or whatever. It's the holds-on-funds policy that might need a good rating.

Apparently I cannot. It's an issue I bring up when I take on a teller if I'm not at that ATM. Anyway it does put a limit on the temptation to spend all my hard earned money..

[Claydon]

I get a copy of every check I send out. Also, if there is a problem, I can stop the check. Plus I use the memo section for "Medical" and "Balance" notations. It helps my accouting.

I sort of do something like this.

The vast majority of my bills (95%) I pay online, and it all gets dumped into quicken with the appropriate confirmation numbers etc.

However, the city I live in only accepts checks for water/sewage/trash, I pay my rent with a check, and I pay ALL medical bills with a check. Why medical bills? I have had issues with paying via debit/visa/master card, ie the billing company cannot find the payment regardless of the confirmation number. With a canceled check you have hard evidence in your file folder.

[WET HOT MESS]

One of my credit cards doesn't have an online payment option so I still have to write checks... twice a year. I'm never gunna finish using this book. I've got about a hundred more til they get all used up.

[Bizz]

I still have 3 of the 4 they gave me when I opened my account.

[The Dude]

I was denied a chequing account until I turn 18. That sucks but even more so, I also have a spending limit of $200 withdrawl on my savings account inspite of my massive savings I have accumulated over the past two and half years from working.

You're from Canada right? You can change your withdrawal limit anytime. Even without a credit check or whatever. It's the holds-on-funds policy that might need a good rating.

tell them you're taking your money elsewhere

[the creeps]

if you go to the market and write a check you ass better be 55 and older.

[Genius]

My fucking utilities company charges 2.5% to pay online. Even though it SAVES them money if you sign up for paperless. I don't understand. Speaking of that, I have to go drop off the fucking check today.

[Gary_Busey]

The only check I write is for the rent.

[Smashing]

I forgets - I send one a week for da child supports.

[6655321]

every time i think about writing a check i think about "the dude" writing a check for his milk.

[Satan]

A couple a year...if that.

[Jericho]

every time i think about writing a check i think about "the dude" writing a check for his milk.
These aggressions....will not stand, man

[nuclearjew]

I use checks. Microphone checks.

[Draven X 23]

I only pay for softball leagues with checks. Unless I forget to get cash and someones birthday is coming up.

[6655321]

i don't even have checks, i pay bills with money orders. that way noone has my account numbers.

[BIG PIZZLE]

That's also very ghetto.

[6655321]

That's also very ghetto.
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[BIG PIZZLE]

Aw shit.

[6655321]

yes, pizz, i'm black.

[BIG PIZZLE]

No you're not.

[6655321]

from the waist down.

[BIG PIZZLE]

Yeah like in your pockets *****.

[6655321]

i am broke like the ******.

[BIG PIZZLE]

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