I have been using my debit card for so long I rarely write checks.
At the grocery store, which always has long lines anyway the woman in front of me pulled out her check book and I was like "oh no......"
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Rarely. I use checks for professional meetings or extracurricular activities like daycare date night.
ETA: I wrote my first bad check by mistake a couple of months ago. I ran out of checks for my professional meeting. I found some in our closet. It had the right names and address, so I used them. Turns it out, they were from a closed account. Whoops! I got new checks right away.
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Only to pay the cleaning lady every other week.
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Ya, for home renovation repairs.
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Yup.
I pay my daycare by check.
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No. We don't even have any.
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Wow I have never seen someone writing a check at the store!
We still use checks for church offering & for weddings.
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I doubt that any stores around here would accept a cheque. I write them out for my dog groomer, and.... that might be it.
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Local restaurants here only take cash or check. Rent has to be paid by check. My stylist has to be paid by check.
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Just daycare!
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We use them for a couple bills and when giving monetary gifts.
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Whoa, that is still allowed at a grocery store?! Definitely not around here!
I pay for dog shows with cheques. Used to pay for all stuff related to horse (board, vet, farrier, etc) with them. E-mail money now (daycare, trades, etc) when I previously would have used a cheque. Most dog people aren't up on it yet, so I keep them for that.
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For HOA dues and paying for stuff like that.
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Yes at weddings, paying our tax guy and occasionally to one of my friends if I owe them money. Oh and random medical bills if they don't have a website cause I don't like writing my credit card number down and mailing it out.
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Only paying people back for stuff or things that can't be paid by debit/credit (like our accountant or our taxes). Whenever someone pulls out a checkbook in public I have to squash the urge to be all OMG ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
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No, we don't even have any which presents an issue about once or twice a year but otherwise is just a non issue. We do frequently use the online bill pay though which does let us send a check to someone so for example if we split something with one of our siblings we will mail them a check through there since they are too far away to just give cash.
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Previously just for rent. But now we have been writing a lot of checks to our adoption agency.
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I don't have any. If I need a check I get one from DH.
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Yup. My accupunturist doesn't take credit cards.
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I forgot my check card in a different pair of pants the other day and found myself at the grocery store with only a pack of checks wedged in the dark recesses of my wallet. It was the first time I'd paid with a check in years!
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For my rent and health insurance, the only group that doesn't allow paying online.
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For a few bills - Rent, storage until, utilities, car payment. A few of those could be transitioned to online payments, just haven't got around to it yet.
I see people writing checks at the grocery store fairly often.
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We pay our monthly maintenance by check and I also have credit cards I haven't transferred to online payment yet (don't know what I'm waiting for!)
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For rent, dry cleaning, daycare and some other random bills like taxes and medical. Everything else is online bill pay.
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Yes, for our condo fee and our daycare!
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Yes, for HOA dues & daycare. Other than that, not really.
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Only for church and weddings. Cheques aren't taken in most retail places here.
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Only for haircuts. I send electronic checks through the bill pay feature at the bank, but write them almost never.
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Yes, for daycare mostly.
Also, there's one friend that I pay often by checks. We go to lunch together a lot, and it's easier for one person to pay. Neither of us carry cash, and she works in a bank, so checks are just as convenient for her.
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Yes, for daycare and a few other bills that don't have online payments.
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Yes. Mortgage, car payment, a few utilities and car payment. A lot of them are small businesses or local credit unions and don't have online options.
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Only for daycare and our HOA because they charge a 3% convenience fee for online payments! {HOA, not daycare.}
And other random type things like school portraits and book orders for my son.
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Never in public but I do sometimes to pay the quarterly insurance bill, etc.
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Like others said - for HOA, monetary gifts, and a few random bills here and there. But that's it!
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Only for a couple of bills and our church tithes. Otherwise, never!
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Only for a couple of bills and our church tithes. Otherwise, never!
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Only for bills.
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I write them for rent.
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Not if I can help it! Checks are the number one thing that drives me nuts about banking in the US. Whyyyyy do they still exist?
That being said, I write them for daycare because that's all out daycare lady will take.
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only to pay babysitters!
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