About 20 last year

6 or so. Just for people who are not on some form of electronic payment.

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Several hundred. Well over a thousand if you include the store.

Not only am I in the same boat, but they are also hand written. I don't use the computer to print company checks.

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Originally posted by mcrimm:

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.

I remember when I was a youngster in a small town and I opened a savings account at the local bank. They gave me a little notebook sort of thing, and I had to bring it in to deposit money. Everything, and I mean everything, was written in ink by hand. Nothing was preprinted except the banks name.

The bank also had "counter checks" all over town, around 50 or so with a rubbery glue holding them together. You'd take one, write your name and address on it, and the merchant would most likely accept it. Word in a small town got around quickly if someone bounced a check. It was a serious thing to do.

When I graduated high school and moved to Oklahoma City for college I was amazed my new bank gave me checks with account number and personal info preprinted on them, and you'd just fill it out along with the date.

Things certainly have changed.

I remember not too many years ago when young pilots would build time by flying checks at night.
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About 20 a year. I still live in an area where everyone does not take credit cards or charge you a 3% fee to do so, therefore, sometimes requires a check when I don't have the cash.

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:
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.

Does your bank not have online banking? Or you just prefer doing it manually.

I write a few a year and that’s because the business that I’m paying doesn’t have online banking.

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2021, A grand total of seven.

I haven’t written a check in seven years. But out of circumstance, I have to write a couple. I ordered 40 for $50. I didn’t even put my address on them. They look fake. But hey, gotta have a check, right?

I pay my alimony and child support and any reimbursements with a check so that I have a record. It’s around 15 checks a year.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
Does your bank not have online checking? Or you just prefer doing it manually.

They have a very nice electronic portal I'm told. Nope, I prefer to write checks. And all written out by hand.

A dozen or so. I pay my Handyman with a check and he totals it up about once a month. I make some charity donations with a check (3-5 a year). Also pay for my tours since they cost more than I can charge to my card in one sum. Maybe 18 in a year.

flashguy

about two dozen. Everything .gov. IRS quarterly, county bi annual, city when I have to get a permission slip for something, any contractor I don't know well; fire wood, arborist this year and a guy to rebuild a storm wrecked fence, A SIG Forum seller, a couple of local charities

Maybe 3 a year. I pay most all my bills with online banking, they will send a check to the few places that cannot accept electronic payments.

Three, I think, as in 2020. A particular city department x2, and one of the tax bills to an archaic dusty 1920s City Hall..

Mailing a letter the other day I see an envelope stuck to the inside of the USPS collection box swing-down door chute. Likely honey, I hear. Fast way to lose a check to the flim-flam man. The USPS Snorkel Collection Box Receptacle is better but still fish-able.

In some areas of the city the swing-down door chute is replaced with an narrow armored door with an even narrower slot behind it. Likely manufactured by General Dynamics adjacent to the M1 Abrams
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I probably write 4-6 checks per month between my business and personal accounts. Didn't realize til just now that I'm so far behind the times...

I’m probably between 1 and 2 dozen a year for both us personally and my retirement gig company. We’ve been trying to maximize our cc usage to get as many travel miles as possible for trips. So far, so good.

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

I'm gonna say 13 because the yard guy comes once a month and the plumber said either pay cash or check or they add 3-1/2% for a credit card payment.

15 maybe, my local water and trash service is the only one left that hasnt modernised.

A dozen or so.

Oil every month in the Winter, car/truck/motorcycle insurance twice a year each, lumber yard/hardware occasionally.

Most of those could probably be made automatic or at least via credit card, but I like to check the bill before paying.

Credit cards, phone, utility bill, car payment, life insurance, TV all by EFT.