Katamari checkboook wants to roll up purchases into your life
by Christopher Grant 
{ Jan 27th 2006 at 3:35PM }
These Katamari Damacy-themed checks are much cooler than the
I want a Katamari-themed debit card; seriously, who uses checks anymore? That's rhetorical, you don't have to answer it.
[Thanks, Jory; via BoingBoing]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
julio @ Jan 27th 2006 3:56PM
Oh my god, where can I get those?! I need some new checks for my JPMorgan Chase account!
hiS_oWn @ Jan 27th 2006 4:05PM
how the hell do you make your own checks?
Levi @ Jan 27th 2006 4:25PM
I like the headline a lot. I wish there was a Katmari debit card also. I rarely use my checkbook anymore.
XBoXer @ Jan 27th 2006 4:33PM
I WANT I WANT I WANT!!!
inumisha @ Jan 27th 2006 4:38PM
Some banks have a "design your own check" check where ou can put your photos or whatever on the checks you order. I haven't looked into them myself, so for some banks there may be "fine print" about not being allowed to use copyrighted images on a design-your-own check.
James @ Jan 27th 2006 5:01PM
There are plenty of places you can get custom checks made. Google it.
bradtwitty @ Jan 27th 2006 5:29PM
rhetorical or not, i still use checks, here in Texas there a lot of places that still don't have credit card machines and even more people who don't know how a debit card worrks, i work at work one day and had to listen to a middle age women rant about the credit card machine machine asking "Credit or Debit", and I quote, "who knows what a debit card is anyway, no one I know has one of those things...", so there are towns in America were the check is the key form of payment.
Crummy @ Jan 27th 2006 6:43PM
Cheers to Haiku on Shacknews for these cheques.
Mike @ Jan 27th 2006 7:13PM
Now that you mention it, I want a Katari Debit card too.
skyman8081 @ Jan 27th 2006 8:31PM
Who still use checks?
Assholes who hold up the line of customers.
Sean @ Jan 27th 2006 10:29PM
So I'm curious, how exactly do you pay your mortgage or your cable bill? I still use checks all the time. Automatic payment is a bad idea. (Yeah, I'm going to give the cable company the ability to withdraw whatever they want from my checking account!)
x23 @ Jan 27th 2006 11:36PM
you can get custom checks made on your printer.
as long as you have the routing number anything is a check. doesn't mean a place *has* to accept it... but you could tattoo a holstein with the required info if you so desired.
though this could have changed recently... i *have* seen people bust out a notepad and write out a 'check' to pay for things before. i remember researching it at the time and found then that it was totally valid.
raygundan @ Jan 28th 2006 10:00AM
#10-- for mortgage and cable and the like, I use a bill payment system from my online bank. It's user-driven, rather than automatic withdrawal, so when I get a bill, I just hop online and click "pay this biller" and enter the amount. If they support electronic payment, it's sent that way, otherwise, the bank cuts a check and sticks it in an envelope for me. I suppose it's technically checks in the end, but I don't have to write them, and I don't have to think about it.
Adam Blinkinsop @ Jan 28th 2006 2:13PM
(Yeah, I'm going to give the cable company the ability to withdraw whatever they want from my checking account!)
#10 - I get the same feeling, but honestly: if you're paying with checks, they have the information they need to withdraw whatever they need. All they need is the account number and the routing number, really - both on the check.
J S K @ Feb 2nd 2006 4:07PM
Actually, #13, they still need your express consent to do electronic funds transfers from your account. So, while they may have a check with the required info, they don't have your consent. Doing so without that consent would be theft.