Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
What's a check?

- those archaic pieces of paper we write on in order to transfer money from our account to a designated party.

Largely supplanted by online payment systems, but still present in a thing called a “checkbook”, which resides in a file drawer and is pulled out and used when, for whatever reason, online payment is not possible or preferred.

I use mine less that once a month, so it will probably be October before I write “2026” automatically.