What Should I Do With This Check For 38 Cents?

I want you to send it to Karl Malone, who will make an origami figure with it and then name the figure and take the origami figure everywhere and film himself taking the origami figure into public and demanding people say hello to it.

^ sounds like the most reasonable option to me

I'd love to see what colors Karl applies.

put it on instagram and nft it

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These things are bookkeeping nightmares... they often don't get cashed, but you can't write them completely off the books yet; really common with tiny royalty checks: "check this out, I got 71 cents from a 2004 song on a compilation, I'll just display this on my fridge forever lol" argghh

Guinness used to list a 21 cent (I think) check from RCA (I think) in the early Seventies as the smallest royalty check ever. Ah, the old days.

boring answer: deposit it from home with your bank's phone app

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Are checks still widely used in the US? I don't think I've seen one in over a decade here in Australia.

yes, they are

Interesting. Here everything's done via online bank transfer and has been for years. You guys don't do that?

i no longer write checks for anything. (rent had been the last holdout for years, but i can now do that online too)

Paycheck: direct deposit
All bills: paid by debit card or eft

The only reason I have checks is to move money from one bank to another by taking a photo of it with my phone.

I can't even remember the last time I had paper currency in my wallet, tbh.

we still use checks for our mortgage and a few other weird outliers like discounted purchases at my workplace (to avoid CC/processing fees), the CSA, etc.

I write about five checks a month (rent and utilities) but almost all my freelance writing clients pay by direct deposit or PayPal. One place sends me two checks a year because instead of paying by the piece they give all their writers "profit sharing", and the other pays monthly but I don't write for them every month.

Interesting. Here everything's done via online bank transfer and has been for years. You guys don't do that?

At my work, some higer-ups have talked about not allowing check payments anymore... but we received literally hundreds every month.

I use them for two utility payments each month, mostly because I'm too lazy to set up online accounts.