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.

Less 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.

I paid the plumber, the yard guy and someone else I can't recall right now. I'm gonna say three.

My farrier ever 6 weeks.

Probably 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.

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Originally posted by coffeeaddict:
My farrier ever 6 weeks.

I had to look up “farrier” on the web. The things I learn in SIGforum.

Zero

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Originally posted by coffeeaddict:
My farrier ever 6 weeks.

The Prodigal Son returneth. Err, the Prodigal, anyway...

Averaging about four to five a year now.

1 to the DMV to save the 3% credit card fee.

Less than 10/year over the last 5 years.

Twelve. 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.

3 or less.

Several 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.

In 2020 I wrote 6. None last year. Will write none this year.

Less 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.

Maybe 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.

About 3 per month.

Maybe a dozen personal, about the same for business.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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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.