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How many paper checks do you write per year nowadays?
January 19, 2022, 09:56 PM
Pipe SmokerHow many paper checks do you write per year nowadays?
I wrote
zero paper checks in 2021. I may never write another one. All of my payments are now by other means.
* Credit card.
* My bank’s “bill pay” mechanism. (HOA dues {automatic monthly payment}, my tax guy, charitable contributions, etc.)
* In-app payments (Amazon, Apple, Farmers Insurance, etc.)
* EFT – state & federal income taxes come directly out of my checking account.
* Automatic utility payments (electric bill and T-Mobile).
* Cash – parking meters and small purchases.
Serious about crackers. January 19, 2022, 09:58 PM
RogueJSKLess than one, on average.
Meaning I might write one every couple years or so. Usually to some old school tradesman. But even then, I often just give them cash.
All my bills are paid through bank bill pay or autodrafts. All my purchases are on a card, with cash, or through electronic payment. Reimbursing friends and family is easy with Venmo/Paypal/Zelle/etc. Even most tradesmen like electricians and plumbers take electronic payments these days.
January 19, 2022, 10:00 PM
parabellumI paid the plumber, the yard guy and someone else I can't recall right now. I'm gonna say three.
January 19, 2022, 10:05 PM
coffeeaddictMy farrier ever 6 weeks.
January 19, 2022, 10:08 PM
NismoProbably two a year.
My range fee is one of them.
My CCW renewal was another, but this year they switched to an online system that you can pay with card.
January 19, 2022, 10:14 PM
Pipe Smokerquote:
Originally posted by coffeeaddict:
My farrier ever 6 weeks.
I had to look up “farrier” on the web. The things I learn in SIGforum.

Serious about crackers. January 19, 2022, 10:16 PM
jljonesZero
January 19, 2022, 10:19 PM
parabellumquote:
Originally posted by coffeeaddict:
My farrier ever 6 weeks.
The Prodigal Son returneth. Err, the Prodigal, anyway...
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January 19, 2022, 10:20 PM
LS1 GTOAveraging about four to five a year now.
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January 19, 2022, 10:30 PM
fwbulldog1 to the DMV to save the 3% credit card fee.
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January 19, 2022, 10:34 PM
motor59Less than 10/year over the last 5 years.
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January 19, 2022, 10:41 PM
egregoreTwelve. I pay my rent with checks. Since I have far more checks than I need - the printer makes a minimum of ~200 - I'll sometimes write a check to the electric company to use them up. Everything else - including the electric via my credit union's bill pay service - is online or with credit/debit card.
January 19, 2022, 10:42 PM
erj_pilot3 or less.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 January 19, 2022, 10:46 PM
Appliance BradSeveral hundred. Well over a thousand if you include the store.
I pay everything all my bills via check. I don't own a debit card.
I have a personal and business CC. Pay them monthly via check.
I'm an outlier I know.
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January 19, 2022, 10:54 PM
darthfusterIn 2020 I wrote 6. None last year. Will write none this year.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier January 19, 2022, 10:55 PM
mcrimmLess than 10. DMV, Couple of birthday gifts for kids and a few more.
I remember back about 45 years ago when I was new in banking. The girls 'upstairs' had go through each account and sort, bundle and send check statements out each month. Bookkeeping was half of our staff then.
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham January 19, 2022, 10:59 PM
RoverSigMaybe 10 per year.
But I remember when checks ruled.
In Charlottesville, VA in the late 1960's the restaurants had a stack of blank checks, with nothing on them but a space to write a local bank name and account number. You would order your lunch and pay with a check on which you wrote your bank name and your account number, and they trusted you that of course it would be a real account and of course you had money in the bank to cover it.
January 19, 2022, 11:15 PM
SeaCliffAbout 3 per month.
January 19, 2022, 11:17 PM
kkinaMaybe a dozen personal, about the same for business.
January 19, 2022, 11:22 PM
dsietsquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by coffeeaddict:
My farrier ever 6 weeks.
The Prodigal Son returneth. Err, the Prodigal, anyway...
It behooves me to say, "We're being watched". (Or read)
Anyway, half a check per year.