Personalized Checks: When Generic Just Isn’t Good Enough

Bank checks are so generic in their appearance that it’s often difficult to tell one apart from the other.  With standard patterns, backgrounds and colors, you might as well use a blank sheets of white paper – there’s so little to tell them apart.

Not that it’s bad, though.  Checks are intended for economic exchanges and don’t require much else to be legal drafts.  As such, many consumers take no issue with bank checks that you can’t tell apart from each other – they do what they’re supposed to, after all.

For some folks, however, generic bank checks may prove a little bit lacking.  Since each one simply resembles the next, they add no joy to the process of using them.  Can you imagine signing 50 of post-dated checks one after the other, having to stare at that boring design over and over?    I’ve done it a number of times and I’m usually bored before I even get past a dozen.

That’s why I find personalized checks to be indispensable.  Instead of just going through the motions bored out of my wits, issuing those post-dated checks actually turn into a playful experience.  A month ago, for instance, I needed to issue 36 checks.  I took twelve each from my personal Disney checks, Good Luck checks and 50s Pin Up checks collection.  While it didn’t a single thing about the fact that I was writing out checks over and over, my spirits stayed up the whole time and I finished it without taking a break – something I’ve never experienced when dealing with generic bank sheets.

Generic bank checks just isn’t good enough.  Isn’t it time you tried something new?