[BrianR]

Last year, I wrote a total of four checks. More than the three previous years combined.

Normally, I pay all my bills online, since I tend to spend a lot of time on the road and it's easy to forget a deadline for payment. Especially where my cell phone is concerned, ontime payment in full is crucial and now that many of your day to day bills also report to credit reporting agencies, missing a payment, even by a few days can be credit suicide.

Also, I don't get mail on the road so I don't always even know I have a bill, much less when it is due. So I just sign up for online payment, make darn sure there's enough money in the checking account to pay it all and forget about it. My usual money level is around $1000/mo at all times.

My one bill that must be paid by check is a dues thing that is paid in December of every year. THAT I can remember. They don't take online payments. Heck, they don't even have a website.