Yes, I still keep a check register

[mevertsen]

This is my philosophy also. I don't see how you can tell whether you are solvent or not just by looking at the online balance because it doesn't take into account the fact that you have an $1800 mortgage payment coming up in a couple days, or automatic payments for insurance, utilities, etc. My wife and I use debit cards for most purchases so our check register is several pages long every month.

I just use the Google spreadsheet on my phone. Build the budget out and keeps balance. I verify that and add my charges to it as I go. Less paper that way.

 

[Keep on]

The wife and I have always had joint accounts solely, so keeping up on the register let's us both know what's being spent and what is the balance. I'm old school, but I prefer having the register. Have actually gone to 95% online bill pay, but that was probably only in the last 5 years or so.

 

[pwrwgn57]

I still pay several bills by check as the entity I'm paying doesn't have an electronic system for payment. And there are a few bills that I refuse to pay the fee associated with paying with a CC so they still get a check. I keep a register since most of those same entities sit on the check for a month or more before they cash it so I need a way to keep track of that money sitting out there.

 

[JustinsDad]

I dtill write checks every now and then but I pretty mich do banking online like 95% of us. I sure like not balancing the damn checkbook every month. I’m so OCD if I was off by a dollar it would freak me out. I’d recheck and recheck till zi figured it out. Auto pay is s relief.

 

[Mussgrass]

My wife and I still write a lot of checks. We only pay 2 bills auto pay. The rest are checks. I write out my tithe check every week. Once in a while we even write a check for milk or eggs at a farm if we don't have enough cash or they don't have change.

 

[Kiwi]

I was never good at keeping a check register and haven't written a check in 10+ years. And New Zealand ended the use of checks 5 years ago.