I think cliches have a time and place to be used, but you have to be extremely careful when doing so. If you have too many cliches, then the story just becomes bland and boring.
I try to stay away from as many cliches as possible while writing, just because I never really liked seeing them in stories, but I always seem to have a couple within the plot. It's hard to avoid them, simply because that's what people generally think of first. I try to go with my second or third idea to avoid some of the obvious cliches, but like I said before, something a cliche can be a good thing. It could lead your readers to believe something will happen, only for the total opposite to take place instead. It's all about how, and where, you use it.