Cheque - when was the last time you wrote one?

[TheOrigRights]

As the subject says, when was the last time you wrote or cancelled a cheque?

If you haven't done so for a while, do you have a cheque book? Do you know where it is?!

I know exactly when I last wrote one. It was when I was renting a TENS machine from my NCT teacher before I gave birth to DS. Who will be 11 in the spring.

About a week ago. I have a chequebook that's a few years old. It was very useful when I was in charge of probate for my mum. However I was astonished when I found out you can give a cheque to someone and they can photograph it and send it to their bank online. This arose because my husband paid for something for me when we were away and I needed to reimburse it. I wrote a cheque and he showed it to his ipad. Mad or what 🤔😁? I would use online banking but for whatever reason my bank makes it impossible for me.

Last week, to pay someone for a gardening job. I hadn't used my cheque book for over 2 years but knew where it was, needed digging out of the bottom of the wardrobe.
But he'd done a crappy job and charged way too much so....
I cancelled the cheque.

(We did pay him for materials and time, I just wasn't going to be totally ripped off)

I can't remember the last time I used a cheque, gotta be over 10years, if not longer. Couldn't tell you where the cheque books are either. Funny to think they're in the past as I felt really grown up the first time I used one.

On the rare occasion I write one I use an Abbey National cheque book, which in itself shows you how often I write one.

School still wants you to pay for lunch money by cash or cheque!

Would have been a couple of months ago to join a small hobby group with Ds1 but I couldn't find my chequebook so got DH to write one.

I haven't had a cheque book for 12 years, I got in a financial mess & had it confiscated.

I probably write three or four checks a year, but I am in the US where they are still used, although less as time goes on. So, yes, I know where my checkbook is.

Never!

I've paid in many cheques that were given by older family members as gifts over the years though ☺️

December 2020. I had to write a cheque to pay a court fine (driving related) as the offices were closed due to covid and you couldn’t send cash in the post.

For myself, not for years.

When I visit my mother though, I have to help her by writing out cheques she uses (to pay her milkman, gardener, cleaner etc. She just signs them. She likes help writing them out due to arthritis in her hands.

Interesting. Thanks.

The reason I asked is (like a PP) I got sent a book of raffle tickets from a charity.
I thought I'd buy a book and then saw they want a cheque.
I know where it might be, but I don't want to spend ages hunting for it, and there's a good chance it's only got a few paying in slips anyway.

I was thinking that they're making it hard for people to donate, but then wondered whether maybe lots of people do still have cheque books.

I can't remember the last time I wrote one. Ex sends maintenance for DS2 by cheque which was a pain until NatWest enabled you to do it via the app. I had to go to the PO (thankfully I have one locally).

My little Premium Bonds win was a cheque but the App didn't recognise it. I've set it to pay into my account now.

Oh and when I worked for US company, while they had sorted out my salary payments any expenses were sent to me by cheque, in US$, which meant going into an actual branch. I don't work for them now, which is good because my nearest branch is bloody miles away!

And so proud to insert it into one of those plastic holders, which after a while split at the seams revealing cardboard!

I tried to write one last week.
The company doing the school photos this year don’t do online payments.

Only it turned out that since the last time I wrote a cheque - over 3 years ago - my bank sort code has changed, so my chequebook isn’t valid any more. So I ended up sending cash in instead.

About 3 weeks ago when I paid the window cleaner.

2017 photo card drivers licence £20

2014. £1600 plasterer

2013 £500 plasterer (several cheques)

2012. £?? Jubilee DVD

2011 b&b £56 deposit.

2010 £395 leasehold expenses

10 cheques in 12 years 😂

5 years since the last one
14 cheques left, will probably 'see me out'

Shit! I'm 'only' 53, I think this is the first time I've genuinely thought 'this'll see me out'

its weird to think it'll be my last cheque book

I'm an accountant, I've written & separately signed thousands of cheques. As a young member of the team I'd sign maybe 200 a day in one job. Written thousands for clients....

@TheOrigRights

so yep, I have one, I know exactly where it is (as I said, I'm an accountant 🤣🤣)
good thread!

I like going through the butt to see what they were for. .

Last weekend. Hair salon only takes cash or cheques.

Before that, to pay deposit for dc's school field trip. And last month's clay shoot.

The joy of living in the sticks is there are plenty of places with poor mobile signal so no chip & pin or contactless.

About a year ago when the old milkman turned up for his money. He absolutely did my head in because he would walk in the house whilst I was looking for my cheque book and make a sarcastic comment about me working from home. So I flipped out on him one day and told him to modernise his payment system. He did due to covid. Thankfully I never had to talk to him again.

2008 for an eBay auction I had won.

I did it about a month ago. The reason was the same - I’ve got raffle tickets from a charity and they asked for a cheque back. I think the previous one was less then an year ago and it was for the charity as well.
By the way I don’t think that they want you to get cheques from all people whom you sold tickets. I think the idea is that people give you cash and then you make a cheque for the total amount.

2006 - they was not cashed though, I used them as IOU for my dad who lent me money to get through my first couple of weeks at work, he didn't want the money back but I insisted if I didn't give him cash he had to cash them on x date. Don't think I have ever written a cashed cheque.

I do have a cheque book, it is from Alliance and Leicester, which hasn't existed for I don't know how many years.

Last week.

About three years ago ? Can't remember!