# What's the picture on your checks? Is it 'you'? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 27, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401 "2002-03-27T17:06:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/21 "2002-03-27T23:31:46Z")
Oh. Think I should note. Considering how rarely I use the checks themselves, and how little I care what they look like anyway, I normally wouldn’t have “vanity checks,” but the first two boxes of checks I got when I opened my account were free and it didn’t matter whether I took a fancy design or the bank’s plain one. So fancy design it was. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/22 "2002-03-28T01:46:59Z")
Mine have animal prints on them - like Cheetah and Leopard. Very cool! My husband picked them out 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/23 "2002-03-28T04:36:50Z")
I work in the loans office at my school (read: I look at a million and five checks every month when loan payments are due) and enjoy laughing at these people’s frou-frou checks. I mean, who are we supposed to be trying to impress with pretty checks? I’ve seen 'em all. I have decided that I think best of the people who keep their hard-earned money and just use the plain ones that the bank supplies. Oddly enough, the plain bank ones are _extremely_ rare, so those people come off looking a lot more sophisticated than the hundred-and-tenth person who also decided to buy Eeyore checks for some reason… Mine are blue-striped, the most basic I could get. I mean, geez, there are some wackos who send in checks that have a black-and-white print of skulls on it, along with a bad Goth poem (something about smiling in the darkness…gah). ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Bianca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Miss\_Bianca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Bianca)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/24 "2002-03-28T04:42:14Z")
Like **dreamer** , I have the animal print checks: leopard, cheetah, tiger, and zebra. They couldn’t possibly BE any more “me” unless they had my actual mug shot on them. Leopard print in particular cracks me up – I’ve been collecting leopard-print stuff for years, with a small sideline in zebra-print stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/25 "2002-03-28T04:56:46Z")
I have **FairyChatMom** ’s checks. They _are_ me, however; I love to travel and they’re simple. ::prays she gets to go to Ottawa this summer:: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/26 "2002-03-28T05:23:03Z")
Ya know, when I opened this thread I went a-looking for my checkbook so I could better describe it to all you wonderful people, and I can’t find it! Oh well, I just wrote a check to my roomie yesterday, so it can’t have gone far. 🙂 They’re very cool, a jillion colors in a “Java” (coffee) theme, four different patterns. In the top left corner is a little rat line drawing, way cute, and down around the memo line it has my favorite Jack Handy quote: _I’d rather be rich than stupid._ So, yeah, they’re ‘me’. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/27 "2002-03-28T06:03:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angel of the Lord \* > \*\*I have **FairyChatMom** ’s checks. They _are_ me, however; I love to travel and they’re simple. > > ::prays she gets to go to Ottawa this summer:: \*\* I’d like to have **FairyChatMom** ’s checks. Will she sign them for us? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/28 "2002-03-28T14:48:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Winnowill \* > \*\* > I’d like to have **FairyChatMom** ’s checks. Will she sign them for us? \*\* sure, no prob - how much do you want?? Or maybe I’ll leave that space blank?? \ In the days before debit cards, I wrote checks for everything. Now I just use them for bill-paying, so they last LOTS longer. The days of buying 4 boxes at a time are long gone. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/29 "2002-03-28T14:53:08Z")
I too have the standard-issue cheapie checks. I too won’t pay for fancy checks. I got enough ways to be me already, I don’t need to pull my checks into this duty. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/30 "2002-03-28T23:45:06Z")
My checks are monopoly motif which to me is funny cuz I oversee the money stuff here at work. I’m the only one that thinks they’re funny, but hey, that’s why I got 'em in the first place. That and I pretty much treat all money like it’s not real. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/31 "2002-03-29T02:51:11Z")
Now that I’m banking primarily online, I rarely write checks, although when I do, they’re on these [Stag beetles, flies, ants, or cockroach checks](http://www.coolchecks.com/checks.cfm?cat=checks&&rel=bug&sku=EB2222&view=detail). Since I work in an entomology department, I guess they’re a bit of me (but I’m still searching for a decent corvid check). > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sidle \* > I’d like to find some with a “Road Kill Series” motif. Not a series, but it includes [vultures.](http://www.coolchecks.com/checks.cfm?cat=checks&&rel=vulture&sku=EB511&view=detail) ---
**Author:** ![Wisest\_Novel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wisest_novel/32/13329_2.png) [@Wisest\_Novel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisest_Novel)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/32 "2002-03-29T03:30:38Z")
Mine have a little understated Native American theme. The check company calls it “Shades of the Southwest” or some such. I like it because it doesn’t detract from the info on the check, they’re cheaper than bank checks, and they remind me of all the fun i had in the southwest over the years. If _Casa Mejor_ wasn’t such a great house, we’d move back there in a second! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/33 "2002-03-29T03:50:59Z")
Checks? What’s a check? You mean like an analog financial transaction, paper and signatures and all that? You had to “mail” them, right? And they came in this little book with a miniature notebook thingie where you wrote down the same numbers and who they had been written to all over again, in lieu of having a copy in your outbox and all? And “signed” them, I remember that, everyone had a “signature”, which was how you wrote your name by hand with a pen if you wrote it in “cursive”. I remember cursive! (Seriously, I haven’t owned or used them in about 6 years) > [@](#): > > Mine have corny whales swimming underwater. All in all, I think that’s probably a good place to to do your swimming when you happen to be a whale, corny or not. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/34 "2002-03-29T04:20:10Z")
I used to have a really nice, simple forest green cheque design with gold on the edges. When I went to re-order my cheques, my bank had eliminated any designs that weren’t hideous flower arrangements, boating scenes (which _so_ reflects my spare time activities), or anything equally un-like me, so I took the basic ugly grey that came free with my account. Thank god I always use my bank card, so I hardly ever use my cheques. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401/35 "2002-03-29T06:42:14Z")
Oh yes. **OH YES.** My checks are SO me! They are… … … (I know you care _so_ deeply, so you’ll keep on scrolling…) 😉 … … **YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK checks!!!** ALL Yosemite, ALL the time. Totally “me”! I got 'em through Bank of America. I think part of the fee that I paid for the checks went towards the Yosemite Fund. They have since been discontinued, I believe. However, I go through checks S-L-O-W-L-Y, and I ordered a big batch of 'em before they were discontinued, so I think (as long as I don’t move, or anything) that I’ll be set with Yosemite checks for the next decade or so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-picture-on-your-checks-is-it-you/100401.md?page=1)