My mother-in-law did it that way partly because she liked that the end was folded inside the middle, so you didn’t see a towel end.
Table manners. you don’t put food on your plate and you certain don’t start eating before everyone is seated and the person who made the food gives their approval. It doesn’t matter how informal the meal is.
My dad always kept batteries in the refrigerator, and so do I. I know that it doesn’t make them last longer, but it’s as good a place to keep them as anywhere.
DH and I do that. He’s actually run tests that support refrigerating batteries to improve their shelf life.
Cups and glasses in cabinets can be stored mouth up, but cups and glasses out in the open are stored mouth down. That’s just common sense.
One cool perk of storing batteries in the fridge is, if you’re changing batteries in some device and the new batteries get mixed up with the old, you can know which batteries are the new ones, because they’re colder.
We moved a couple of time. The cupboard for the towels was a different shape each time. So the way they folded the towels (or the way they wanted us to fold them) changed to fit the cupboard.
Is this a Friendly Giant reference?
I started doing that without being taught by anyone. However, on very sparsely populated trains I only get up as we are approaching the station (still before actually arriving, though), and on some very crowded trains, if it is even possible to move at all, it sometimes would still be too awkward to maneuver yourself to the doors only to be right in someone’s face for a minute or more afterward. But on sort-of-light-to-fairly-crowded trains, I definitely try to get to the exit early.
That’s exactly what I was coming to this thread to say. My dad always kept a little notepad and a calculator in his car. Every time he filled up he’d record the mileage, gallons purchased, and the fuel economy. I used to do it that way as well, but now I record that information in an app on my phone. But even though I’m using a different technology, in spirit I’m recording my fuel economy at every fill up just because that’s what my dad does. Or did; I think he actually realized it’s pretty pointless and stopped doing it, but I’m still in the habit of doing it.
- it can cause “credit card sciatica”. I once cured a colleague’s leg / back pain when I noticed he was sitting on his wallet. He’d been complaining of the pain, I told him to take his wallet out; he said it helped. I told him he owed me 50 bucks for the consult. Deadbeat never paid!
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As far as the OP’s topic: honestly, the only thing I can think of is something someone else cited: I buy Crest toothpaste! Same original flavor etc.
OK, I don’t usually use a cup to rinse my mouth after brushing. For whatever reason, we didn’t have a drinking vessel in our bathroom growing up, and we kids all got in the habit of cupping our hands under the faucet to get water to rinse. I do so to this day.
Hehehe, I do this too. I also do it if I’m just grabbing a quick sip of water from the sink.
My husband does this, including the spreadsheet.
The computer in my 2013 Opel Corsa is not very sophisticated, but it always tells me my average mileage (in liters/100 km) on its tiny amber screen, so I don’t have any need to calculate it myself after every filling. I used to do that with a handy logarithmic scale which I still have in the car, but I only did it to spot unusual high gas consumption that might indicate an urgent problem, I never put it into notebooks or spreadsheets. What’s the point of that?
I suppose by calculating it every time you have a baseline so you’ll notice if it starts getting worse that usual, which could indicate some problem which needs to be addressed. But I think it’s mostly just so you can say “Hey, look at the great mileage I’m getting on this trip!”
I can’t think of much of anything in particular. I went through a long period of living out of a backpack, never brushing my teeth, moving to a new part of the country every three to six months, and I think it sort of cleaned out any habits I might have carried from home. Attitudes and values, to a degree, but not habits. I am extremely different from both my parents.
On my last vacation, it was useful to have an automated mileage tracker since my low air pressure light came on and wouldn’t come off for hours after I started the car, but I was still getting good mileage so I was pretty sure it was just the cold morning air. If I had had to stop and get gas, and then do manual calculations, I’m not sure if I would have gone through with that.
(It turns out I didn’t need to urgently fill my tires, and the lights came off when the temperature rose during the day. I would have tried to fill them, also, except that the only places I could find were $3 and didn’t take the credit cards types I had. While I did have 12 quarters on me, I didn’t feel like messing with putting them all into a machine to get air I might not even need.)
We did this for our first few cars - ok, not a spreadsheet, but a notepad. It was entertaining, when we had one that we took on a cross-country drive, 40+ years ago. I think I quit doing it some time about halfway through owning the minivan, or maybe the first CRV; at some point after that, I got an app for the same purpose (which will product mileage figures etc.).
Gas prices haven’t been too insane lately, but I could easily document the per-gallon prices, at least since we bought this new car (I no longer have the data from the old app, which had quit working).
Note that this is NOT something my parents ever did.
A car we rented a few weeks ago had a mileage calculator built into its trip odometer etc. 19 mpg (it was a huge SUV).
Entertainment value, honestly, though if I looked carefully at our records, I might notice anomalies.