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* Cooking: Ramen can be used not just for soup, but for stir-fry. * Travel: Any supermarket is your fee-free ATM. (cashback) (US) * Travel: In the middle of

* Cooking: Ramen can be used not just for soup, but for stir-fry. * Travel: Any supermarket is your fee-free ATM. (cashback) (US) * Travel: In the middle of your urban trek and have to pee? Hotel lobbies usually have clean, open bathrooms. (Specifically talking about the one you're NOT staying at, when you're wandering for 10 hours in a foreign city, and don't want to go all the way back to "base.") * Travel: Hotel lobbies often have free wifi. * Cooking: Peel an orange inside the produce bag. Makes for perfectly dry, not messy, not sticky experience. (your fingers can poke through the skin and tear it, and it doesn't tear bag. Magic.) * Travel: I have so many Priceline and Hotwire strategies, but the short version is: use these sites to book hotels.

abalashov 17y ago
Supermarkets require a purchase to provide cash-back, do they not? That would seem to amount to some sort of fee, even if it's a lot smaller (e.g. a 50 cent pack of gum). EDIT: I suppose I am referring to precisely that aspect of them which would otherwise be "ATM-like" - namely, that the function is to dispense cash on demand, and that the fees in question would otherwise go solely toward paying for the privilege. Cashback is a nice way to stock up on hard currency, but it is technically a side effect of making a purchase, not an ATM, even though in practice the side effect does not entail a "fee" in that you meant to buy whatever you're buying regardless.
- thesethings 17y ago
  Right. But purchasing something at a store like this when I travel is in no way forced for me. I find my friends and I go to grocery stores/drug stores even more often when we travel than at home. You have no stock of stuff like when at home/work. You're constantly grabbing a drink/a snack things to take back to "base." You often have no refrigeration, so that means more, smaller trips to the store, too.

abalashov 17y ago

Supermarkets require a purchase to provide cash-back, do they not? That would seem to amount to some sort of fee, even if it's a lot smaller (e.g. a 50 cent pack of gum). EDIT: I suppose I am referring to precisely that aspect of them which would otherwise be "ATM-like" - namely, that the function is to dispense cash on demand, and that the fees in question would otherwise go solely toward paying for the privilege. Cashback is a nice way to stock up on hard currency, but it is technically a side effect of making a purchase, not an ATM, even though in practice the side effect does not entail a "fee" in that you meant to buy whatever you're buying regardless.

thesethings 17y ago
Right. But purchasing something at a store like this when I travel is in no way forced for me. I find my friends and I go to grocery stores/drug stores even more often when we travel than at home. You have no stock of stuff like when at home/work. You're constantly grabbing a drink/a snack things to take back to "base." You often have no refrigeration, so that means more, smaller trips to the store, too.