I see that Washington Mutual is offering Free Checking. This is interesting because they’ve been offering it for years; when I moved back to San Diego in 1999, I went to Washington Mutual to get their free checking, but closed my account within days because it wasn’t completely free. I had to pay for checks, something that wasn’t disclosed to me. That annoyed me and so I opened a new account at Bank of America, a bank I’ve been dealing with for years (Oregon and California branches weren’t really linked at the time, so I had to close my Oregon account and open a California account). So now, it looks like Washington Mutual is offering free checks. How nice of them to finally make correct their misleading advertising.