In order to keep your bank happy, to not have any NSF checks and to see that there isn't any over charges, you need to balance your checkbook when the bank statement comes.

Do you?

Hubby and I made a deal I did the checkbook for the first 15 years and he would do it for the next 15. When it was his time he bought quicken that automatically does it.

No....:( can you believe Dave is an accountant? I was so good about balancing it down to the penny before we started sharing our money.

Yes, I am the quicken goddess.

I take care of the bills now. I do have Quicken, but haven't used it in a couple of years. So, NO, I don't balance my checkbook regularly.

I usually balance the check book. One time I had 3 months worth of statements. What a mess. I'm doing better now. Maybe that should be on my "to do" list today.

I balance weekly with the help of online statements, It helps keep me on the straight and narrow

I hate to admit that I don't. I should, though.

I balance it to the penny, every month. I'm a bookkeeper, and it's my nature....lol. I couldn't sleep if my account was not balanced.

I balance it once every month.

I keep up with it by online statements. Much easier than waiting for the statements in the mail.

I balance every week too with online checking.

I check it online at least once a week

I don't have one. :eek: so no need to balance.

We're pretty anal about writing everything down in the checkbook and checking our math a thousand times, so we don't sit down and balance it against the bank every month, however, we do use Microsoft Money, and every few months, dh will use the online bank website, the statements and Money to balance it all out. There are rarely errors, and the only omissions are the interest payments we get at the end of each month on our checking account, so it's always in our favor. I LOVE Microsoft Money because it really helps to show where we are spending our money. I am also the Comptroller for my school, and I use it there as well.

I use Quicken...and I love it. I do an actuall "Balance" once a month with the statement..but I double check the balance every couple of days with the online statement.

I actually balance mine nightly to the online register that the bank keeps

I balance each month when the bank statement comes in the mail. For the first time, the bank has screwed up and charged me $2 that I would not have realized had I not balanced each month. It may only be $2, but if they did that each month, and I never reconciled, then I would be giving them $24 a year for no good reason. Besides, it only takes about 10 minutes to reconcile a month.

I balance mine within a few days of receiving it. And I balance to the penny.