Cheques

AAP reports:

Cash is falling out of favour, the use of cheques is virtually non-existent, debit cards are gaining but we haven’t quite made the leap to paying by mobile phone.

The use of cheques is falling out of favour, with fewer than 40 per cent of the study’s respondents saying they had made a payment by cheque in the past year.

It has been some years since I wrote a cheque out. I do have a cheque book somewhere, but Internet Banking is not just so much easier, but you get a record of whom you were paying and why by using the three reference fields.