Should Paper Checks Be Abolished Like The Penny?

Today I will write my one monthly check-----to my gardener who doesn't accept Venmo or Zelle. I've asked. Repeatedly.
Growing up I used to watch my mom spend time balancing hdr checkbook. One time I asked her if she ever caught the bank making a mistake. She said that once the bank shorted her a dime.

My last three checks were for home maintenance and repairs; the vendors (Painter / Plumber / HVAC) either weren't set up for Zelle / Venmo or they charged more for using a CC.
I still record my spends in a paper check register.
Thank you for sharing the article, jbuck.

I think I quality as 'older', now.
But, I've been using online banking since the days of dial-up modems, and happily dropped the checkbook when I was around half my current age of 72.
I was employed by a printing company that produced brochures for my Credit Union, announcing their new service of online banking. I went home and registered the same day, before the brochures even hit the street, LOL.

Far from being a technophobe, like many in my age group, I've been playing with computers for going on 50 years. One caveat, I am a mobile phone refusnik. Though, my home phone is VoIP, and has been since around 2010.
And I am learning that not too many people (of any age) are even familiar with that.

Not all of us old farts shun technology.

My pleasure.

Same, except, well, I am 56.

My first exposure to computers was the Apple ][ in grade school. My first home computer was the Sinclair ZX-81. My first modem was 300 baud and used pulse dialing. How things have changed.

It is all I have had since I dropped the landline in 2008. I actually quit making landline calls before then. I only had it for the security system and I got a new panel with a cellular modem in 2008.

I have a Polycom phone at home for work. It has a DID, so it might as well be a landline. I use the DID number when sites/companies require a secondary number since the mobile is technically my home phone.

Telecom is the original and once primary business of my employer of 29+ years. We have expanded into many other things, but the Telecom is a huge part of a 46 year history.

My first computer was the TRS-80 that I built from a Radio Shack kit. I haven't had a landline this Century, but we're not going to talk about my the suitcase brick mobile phone from the Jurassic Era that I had back in the day. I've also been completely paperless for my coin dealing and personal collecting since before the turn of the Century. (I do have 45+ TB of digital records and photos, however. Yes. I'm a digital hoarder.) I haven't sent an email this year. And I still have $3 left from the $20 bill I had in my wallet at the start of the pandemic. Like several others here, I have used checks for home remodeling, mainly because my much younger Luddite accountant threatened to remove some of my innards if I didn't. Other than that, I'm still on my last checkbook from the very early 2000s.

Just mailed, a few days ago, two cheques to our snow removal company for winter 2026-2027. Previously, in the spring, two to our grass cutting company. Don't like emailing my credit or debit card info. to anyone. Use between 15-20 cheques a year. .

We're definitely outliers of our millennial generation, but my wife and I write multiple checks per month: church giving, utilities, and contractors. Mostly because it's the only way to avoid credit card fees. Some local contractors don't even accept cards.