Yes I used to get mine through mail--the adds that come in the paper but now i get them through our bank and they cost 8.00 for just about 3 books. I pay most bills on line so not too many checks used.

Through my bank and free.

mine are free from the bank if you are over 60

Deluxe Checks are $5.50 for one box of checks, 100 qty. Link The catch is, that's an introductory offer. if you've ever ordered for THAT account before then you automatically get charged FULL price. To make sure your getting the intro offer....ask the phone operator if your account shows up in their system.....if not...you get the cheap....cheap price.

I ordered mine online, and I believe it cost about $65 for 120 checks. Mine are more expensive because they are for a business account, and they make duplicate copies. I also have my business logo printed on the checks in color. They are very pretty, and so I did not mind spending a bit more for them, considering how few I write. The prices have gone up since I last ordered.

I don't remember where I ordered them from, but I expect the ones I have to last possibly three more years.

The ones at my bank cost a lot more then Walmart, or most of the other places you see them to order

I very rarely use them, but the bank automatically sends a new book free of charge when you are down to the last few. No age stipulation, although I doubt anyone under 60 uses cheques. If you want one sooner there’s an order form in the back of the book Or you can order on line.

I get checks from Wal-Mart

https://www.walmartchecks.com/?redirectQuery=check+printing&search_redirect=true

I use very few but my bank provides them for free to all customers - gray hair not required. .

Bank for free

Our check writing is minimal these days, but I can’t recall ever paying for a check order from the bank.

Same here, free from my bank for people over 60. The words "Golden Age" is printed right above the signature line.

Want to hear something funny? My older brother (73), refuses to take advantage of the offer of free checks because he doesn't want those words Golden Age on his. LOL true story.

All of these great suggestions, thanks! Sadly, there haven't been free checks at my bank in over 30 years. But the people there are nice and I'm just glad they are still in business.

Also look at Costco.

Our bank checks are no longer free since I closed our business account, including those I write for household (I had three checking accounts there at one time, all were free checks). Maybe it was a coincidence with the timing - I don't remember asking. I don't write many, but use Harland Clarke still. A creature of habit. And yes, they are more expensive than what I'd remembered paying, but most everything is these days ;)

My checking account at US Bank has no service charge, but my previous account at Union Bank was $9.00 a month, back in the 1990s. I thought that was excessive, and it amounted to $108 a year, which is way more than what I pay for checks now, which is less than $30 a year.

Lars, ours is a smaller local bank and with a minimum balance in my household account, I don't pay any monthly fees. No per check fees. Our money market there and the remaining checking both earn interest (admittedly its darned little on the checking). Notarizing and cashiers checks are free and they waive the annual fee to my safety deposit box.

I have so little reason to be there in person these days, but there was a time I could walk in and everyone knew my name. Now, those odd times I do venture inside, I don't see a single face familiar to me.

I used to buy ours from Current Catalog like Judy Good back in the days before we paid for everything digitally or by credit card because I liked to get colorful, interesting looking ones. But now we just buy ours from our bank where we have our checking account. I think we only send two of them a month, one to my mother for her mortgage and one for the electric bill for my husband's woodworking workshop because our electrical supplier won't automatically withdraw money from our account or accept credit cards for that, even though it's a second electric service on our property.

Last time I ordered checks from my credit union, I think they were less that $10 - that was more than a year ago. I rarely write checks. I just looked and it's Harland Clarke. Mine are carbon checks.

Bradford Exchange for local Bank. I ordered 400 checks that should last a loooong time. National Bank offers free checks. The price is right but there are no cool graphics.

I just looked, I get email reminders periodically from the check printing company my bank uses for its free service - it's Harland Clarke.

There's no reason these days to pay monthly fees, be charged an ATM fee if using a machine from a different bank (even if that other bank charges a fee, YOUR bank should reimburse you for it), fees for certain transactions (like incoming wire transfers), have a minimum balance to maintain, or have to pay for checks. There are so many financial institutions around with few rules and generous services offerings at little or no charge.

I don't believe in slavish loyalty for an unbalanced relationship. I will return loyalty to any business that shows it cares for me and looks out for my interests. And I run as fast as I can away from those that don't. One strike and you're out.

NOT recommending Chase, but my checks are free.

A quick look at the Chase website suggests that the services referred to above have strings attached of various kinds, depending on what checking account "type" a customer has. Perhaps this person is grandfathered with features no longer offered for new accounts.

I have a Chase Sapphire Reserve Visa card and I think it's terrific. Some years ago, they approached me and asked me to open a checking account and a financial account. I asked some questions, got answers, and decided to give them a try. Within two weeks, I learned that the branch account exec I met with didn't have a clue what he was talking about and had given me wrong answers to a couple of questions I said that were non-negotiable features I needed to have. I closed the accounts at that time. So fast, I only had one statement from them, the accounts were opened and closed within the same month's cycle.

For as awful my Chase banking experience was, my Sapphire Reserve experience has been excellent. Different divisions of a large company. We all have our own experiences from one end of a range to the other.

From the bank. The UGLIEST things ever. But they are free and only used to pay bills so who cares.

If it's a local bank and you've been a long-time customer, you could always ask if they would waive the fee for checks. Our old bank used to waive fees at the drop of a hat just by asking.

Of course, they've since been taken over by another bank with which I am not happy. So I'm in the process of moving my accounts to a new bank....such a shame. I opened my very first bank account with them as a child. Remember the old bank savings books?

What a PITA! All my bill paying, my auto deductions, my direct deposits, the new mobile app, etc etc. all have to be moved to or recreated in the new accounts. And it took so long for them to create the new accounts and I had to get DH's signature on the paperwork etc.

Hopefully, I won't need to do this again for a long time.

Our bank offers 100 free checks per year as long as we maintain their annually required minimum & high checking account balance.

One thing to consider is what happens when something goes wrong. Last time I ordered checks it was an ordeal. I usually order from Current but for some mysterious reason my order at Current was canceled and I was never notified. Tried again, same thing. So I gave up and ordered from my bank, then my bank check package went missing. Tracking indicated the checks had been delivered, but they had not actually arrived. Advised the bank and they asked me to wait a week, after a few more days 3 of the 4 boxes arrived, the 4th one never did. The bank put stop pays on the all the check numbers of the missing box at no cost and I was sent a new box with the next set if check numbers. My understanding is that I had ordered the checks from another business that I would have been charged for the stop payments for the missing box.

When looking up how much I paid the bank for checks I ordered last month, I noticed that the check numbers repeat themselves. So I have four sets of checks of 50 checks each all of which begin and end with the same number. I am also wondering why I am paying for checks - 40 year customer. Off to the bank I will go today.

“Remember the old bank savings books?”

Annie, I used to work for a bank long before there were any computers. We had to update customers’ passbooks manually. It could take a very looooong time!

I'm usually behind on the technology curve, so I am surprised!-I don't use checks at all.

I will when I go to my loan closing next week (likely to be my absolute last), but even that will be a cashier's check. Once every other year-ish? I pay all electronically. I am about to change all utilities to autodraft even. I love the phone doing that, since they let you know ahead of time, and once it's done, so why not electric and water? My taxes and insurance are done automatically too.

I might even go paperless on my bank. I printed all of mom's to PDFs and filed them all away. It's pretty easy to keep up. I must be "younger" than I know (since I am not 60 and will not get checks. Why is the bank picking it by age?)

I last ordered checks maybe 5 years ago? And since I use less than 20 a year, I don't see any reordering happening in the near future.

I was a founding member of my original bank umpteen years ago (a small local institution) but it was acquired by another bank maybe 20 years ago. Zero service charges and free checks. And even though I moved a distance away and never visit in person, it is still small enough and personalized enough that they recognize me and greet me by name if I ever need to call.

I don't remember the cost, but it was cheap when I ordered checks from Costco. You do get a zillion checks, though!

Our bank for free, basic checks. No pictures, not duplicating. Wells Fargo. However, this is the 3rd or 4th bank name for the same account since 1980, so we may be grandfathered. In 1980 it was Southern something, then Southern something else, then Wachovia, then Wells Fargo.

I was using a few for stuff I could not pay on line. I may never use anymore.

I order mine online from walmartchecks.com , as well. I see no reason to pay a large amount for something I rarely use.