Tip 150: No More Tipping Sunday, June 11, 2000

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SOLUTION: Enough already! Stop at Tip 150, a nice, even number. Publish a list of all of the tips printed to date. Move on to a new idea. You can't do any worse.

Congratulations to Roz Jonas of Bethesda, author of the above tip. She wins our remaining cache of "I'm a Great Tipper!" T-shirts.

That's right. As of today, our weekly Travel Tips feature ceases to exist, with the promise that a new column will soon appear in this spot. More about that next week.

We're sad to say goodbye to this popular feature, but we have to concede Jonas's point: The column has run its course. And we must admit we're relieved. No more well-intentioned but repetitious submissions. No more scraping the bottom of the e-mail barrel for a usable tip every week. No more internal debates about which tip is worse-remember "Room not ready? Park on the sofa" (Tip 21)? "When in a church, stop to pray" (Tip 61)? "Towelettes as aromatherapy" (Tip 97)? Then there were those infamous tips that our readers informed us were probably illegal ("Silencing noisy vending machines," Tip 47), immoral ("Sit down, I dare you," Tip 66) or downright dangerous to your health ("Mmm! Hot bagged cuisine!," Tip 102). Trust us, we've made the right decision!

As for reprinting the other 149 tips, no need for that. They're all in the travel tips index. Or you can send us a stamped, self-addressed, legal-size envelope (our address is at right; mark your letter "Tip Request") and we'll mail you the list. But don't say we didn't warn you.