Random Thoughts

[kphoger]

... if people younger than us even write checks anymore.

I've had my current checking account for not quite 3 years and have written 5 paper checks.

I wrote three checks this weekend ...

Key context missing.

My wife and I were born in 1981-2.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I wrote a check last spring/summer for passport renewal, since by mail was the only way to renew your passport at the time.

[JayhawkCO]

I don't remember the last time I wrote a check. I've done plenty of e-checks. But a physical check? Probably been maybe 3-4 years?

[kphoger]

I wrote a check last spring/summer for passport renewal, since by mail was the only way to renew your passport at the time.

I think the only time I write checks anymore is at the DMV, at the tag office, or doing passport applications/renewals.  I detect a theme...

[PColumbus73]

... if people younger than us even write checks anymore.

I've had my current checking account for not quite 3 years and have written 5 paper checks.

I wrote three checks this weekend ...

Key context missing.

My wife and I were born in 1981-2.

I pay my utilities by check. (I was born in 1990).

[gonealookin]

... if people younger than us even write checks anymore.

I've had my current checking account for not quite 3 years and have written 5 paper checks.

I wrote three checks this weekend ...

Key context missing.

My wife and I were born in 1981-2.

I'm 64.  As to the reluctance to allow companies to pull money from an account, I have a separate account that I only keep enough money in to cover that month's bills, so no overdraw could get that much.  The main CMA where I keep most of my cash, I do pay bills out of it but those are push payments via the bill pay, not pulls.

[formulanone]

... or copies of people's bad checks (which pre-dates you).

My wife mentioned the other day that we need to make sure our eldest son has a bank account and knows how to write a check before he leaves home.  I asked her if people younger than us even write checks anymore.

Bank account, yes;  checks, I'm guessing no.

We did that last year when my daughter was able to open a checking account.

...and don't forget this pointless and excessively long line, so the recipient doesn't scribble "and one million" between 42/100 and the pre-printed DOLLARS...

When I was a kid my parents let me play around with some old checkbooks, so I was able practice a bankbook balance and check writing.