I like looking at things and really thinking them through. If you do this carefully once, you can just automatically do the correct thing forever after that.

So, basic things - when taking the lid off the coffee, where do you put it?

Me? Depends if there's coffee on the bottom of the lid. If so, topdown, bottom up:

No coffee? Then bottom down on the table, keeping the top of the lid cleaner.

I did some laundry a day before checking out of the hotel I was staying at. I wasn't sure if it'd dry one day before I was leaving, but I figured worst case scenario I'd have to put some slightly wet clothes in a plastic bag and then wash them again sometime.

Next day rolls around, clothes are very slightly wet.

It's only very slightly wet... I figure the blow dryer could get them dry. But it's a model where you have to hold the button down:

I think about it, and I'm tentatively going to just read a book while blowdrying for a few minutes, and then I get an idea:

Bingo:

I like thinking about things. Just spending five minutes thinking something over can save a lot of time.