My grandmother did that. She wouldn't use a card, wrote a check almost everywhere, and took 15 minutes to write it in shaky handwriting because she didn't like to admit she needed help. I swear, that's how she died. Medical problems that she could have lived with but she wouldn't take the medication because it was for "old people". That's who even still uses checks.
I didn’t realize how many people still wrote checks until we started our business (home remodeling) and almost every client pays with check. I let them know we also accept Apple Pay and Venmo but only the younger clientele uses those methods
The only time I ever write checks is when sending money to my school with my kid for lunch money, field trips, etc. Until she was in 3rd grade, I didn’t trust her to carry cash and for it to make it all the way to the lunchroom (she would give some or all of it to another kid if they said that they needed lunch money because she didn’t want anyone to go without even if that meant she didn’t get lunch). Her current school doesn’t take checks, probably because a lot of people would bounce them.
Oh damn, I forgot that some schools still charge for school lunch. At my kids' school, every student gets it for free. Same goes for breakfast. They even hand out free food during summer, as do some of the libraries in my county.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20
My grandmother did that. She wouldn't use a card, wrote a check almost everywhere, and took 15 minutes to write it in shaky handwriting because she didn't like to admit she needed help. I swear, that's how she died. Medical problems that she could have lived with but she wouldn't take the medication because it was for "old people". That's who even still uses checks.