Dumb tricks for home studio tracking?

I self record my own drum parts and only recently did it occur to me that I can save a ton of time getting mics set up/adjusted properly by just using my in ears with a big chunky set of ear muffs on top. Uncomfortable? Yep. Looks stupid? Hell yeah. But I can hear properly now and I'm not wasting good takes on things like the bottom snare mic having some glaring problem I didn't hear in my ears mix because of poor isolation.

Feel a bit dumb for not thinking of this sooner and now I'm wondering what other little quality of life things I might not have picked up yet.