# I LOVE LOVE LOVE Online Bill Paying
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 6, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002 "2001-03-06T21:27:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/1 "2001-03-06T21:27:52Z")
The only checks I have written for the last three months have been for rent and I don’t have to buy stamps anymore.
Excuse me, I am getting quite emotional…talk amongst yourselves…
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/2 "2001-03-06T21:50:57Z")
Oooohhhh Yeahhhh …
I can DEFINITELY relate, **Tretiak**. The ultimate anaesthetic when it comes to sending money to the monthly black holes. The deftness of the mouse-click. The little figures going up, going down …
_mmmm-mmmmm-mmm…_
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/3 "2001-03-06T22:06:08Z")
I just started doing this last month. Good stuff, so far. I might like it a little less when the “first 3 months free” trial expires and I start paying for it.
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### Author:  [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2001, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/4 "2001-03-07T07:11:26Z")
Got to love it. No more writing checks and then letting them ride around in my purse for a week–until they’re all late–because I’ve forgotten to post them. And I can tell the service when to pay them, so I always know when the money is coming out of the checking account–it makes balancing the thing much easier. Of course, so would doing it on a regular basis, but that would be too responsible. And I got 6 month free.
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### Author:  [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/5 "2001-03-07T07:36:23Z")
Yeah, my mom loves it too. She hasn’t balanced a checkbook in some 2 years, I’d say. For the most part, it’s easier. And then the computer crashes, or the bank system “accidentally” forgets to send out a payment, and we lose electricity for a few days…
LOL, I’d just as rather stick to my checkbook.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/6 "2001-03-07T15:16:20Z")
For direct deposit, I was supposed to provide a blank check. I don’t have any checks. I haven’t owned any checks in years!
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### Author:  [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2001, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-love-love-online-bill-paying/57002/7 "2001-03-07T15:55:47Z")
My checks still have the address I lived at 4 years ago, that’s how few checks I write nowadays.