Megan Shea Deroche is unusually lucky. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her audio engineering boyfriend Matthew Warwick and their Jack Russell Terrier, Penny.

Megan's interests include Red Bull energy drink, American Sign Language, aquariums, and trying to explain herself. She writes like she believes if she stops she'll explode.

My passion is ...

too obvious.

I know too much about ...

myself.

My parents always told me ...

not to sleep with the lights on.

Personal Finance > Banking Basics How to endorse a check to someone else

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Personal checks are becoming an endangered species in the world of personal finance, now commonly replaced by debit cards (or check cards), PayPal, credit cards, and even money orders. This is because people today cannot wait for their financial transactions to go through snail mail, which can take days. But personal checks still may not meet their extinction for years.

Cousin to the payroll check, the personal check is still out there, just seen in fewer numbers. Both of these checks are important, however. To many, a payday is the most important day of the week, and a payroll check is ...

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