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Writing Checks To Pay Your Bills · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Thursday Morning Cubby Christine, one of six point seven light
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  Speaker 1: A FM producer Kristen back in the saddle producing our show,
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  Speaker 1: giving us fun topics, talking about all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're gonna talk about checks and the art of
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  Speaker 2: writing a chack.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember how I still do.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe every couple of months, but not as much as
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  Speaker 2: I used to. But I do have to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like kid put that pen to a check.
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny. Never thought it'd lose that skill set
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  Speaker 3: and it comes back. But I end up having to
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  Speaker 3: write sometimes, like doctor's bills or something like that. I'll
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  Speaker 3: end up writing checks for We apparently are saving seventy
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  Speaker 3: four minutes a month by not writing checks anymore.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so there's some good to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is. Back in the day, the average adult
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  Speaker 3: wrote twenty four personal checks a month. Do you remember
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  Speaker 3: sitting down to do your bills?
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  Speaker 2: It was it was like a Sunday night thing for me.
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  Speaker 3: It was for me too. I dreaded it. You have
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  Speaker 3: to like stack them up, make sure you write the check,
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  Speaker 3: make sure you get it out on time. Beginning in
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  Speaker 3: twoenty sixteen, just over half of us UH started paying
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  Speaker 3: our bills online, Like that's that's kind of when it
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  Speaker 3: swung like around that year and by now it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's even more than that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud to say my mom, God Rest her soul,
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  Speaker 1: was one of the old ladies that used to hold
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  Speaker 1: up the line at the grocery store. Oh, because she
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  Speaker 1: was the one writing the check. And you know, you
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  Speaker 1: get that like the groans behind you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're holding up a lot of a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you can you still write a check at a
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  Speaker 2: grocery store?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see it.
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  Speaker 2: It still happens, Yes, I see it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, because sometimes people want to write
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  Speaker 3: the check and get like a little extra cash back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeahah, so they they use it that way.
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  Speaker 3: It does still exist.
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  Speaker 2: Also, balancing the checkbook too, that's.
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  Speaker 3: A big thing. Do you still balance a checkbook for it? Yeah? No, No,
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to like transcribe everything, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: you use venmo so much, and I was trying. But honestly,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like it got out of control and then
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  Speaker 3: you just go to your up and the balance is there.
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  Speaker 1: I used to feel like the ATM was my balance
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  Speaker 1: because it would give you the receipt and how much
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  Speaker 1: I have left.
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  Speaker 3: But you're trusting it.
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  Speaker 2: See that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: If you do your own right, you know that it's
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  Speaker 3: matching up. Are we still supposed to balance our checkbooks?
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  Speaker 2: Now as you're talking, I'm actually thinking about that.
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  Speaker 3: Like when I do write a check, I do make
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  Speaker 3: sure that I note that you know, I transcribe that.
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  Speaker 3: But I stopped doing everything else.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty unbalanced right now. What it all comes down to.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the club.
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  Speaker 2: LIGHTFM