Let’s say you’re driving around and going to the store. It would be great to be able to know what’s in your fridge and, more specifically, prioritize the contents based on what’s about to go bad (based on purchase date & a database of ingredient shelf life (fridge & freezer settings)) then pull up a series of recipes(Online Recipes) that use those ingredients and once you choose a dish or two, generate a shopping list.

So, yeah a smartphone app would/could be involved.

I imagine people would be able to avoid a lot of unnecessary waste if SmartFridge(?) was keeping track of which perishables are still fresh.

It would be nice too if supermarkets could email your receipt to your fridge/smartphone like the Apple store does. But a smartphone should be able to scan it in, right?

One big hassle though is telling your “fridge” that you just used 16oz. of a certain vegetable, or 1/2 cup of chicken broth, or 2 Tbsp of Ovaltine. Maybe you could do it via a simple photograph of your ingredients laid out, and it could estimate? Same goes for what you’re tossing out as spoiled.

Anyway, enjoyed the post.

I live in Branford, CT (06405) which has several areas of town with their own name/post office. I live very close to the Stony Creek Post Office. Some people write “Stony Creek, CT 06405″ but the official town is still Branford.

The mail gets routed to the Stony Creek post office purely because of the street I live on (Buena Vista Rd).

I don’t know how common the Sayville/Cherry Grove situation is. In Los Angeles it was the opposite situation, there are a gazillion zip codes.

Bottom line, you can make most people happy if the form asks for your zip code and automatically guesses the city/state… folks that live in Cherry Grove can go in and edit the form to say Sayville if its wrong. They at least wont have to change their state from New York so it’s still saving the user time.