Favorite shortcut?

[FF1_Geek]

I'm wondering what everyone's favorite FF1 (NES) shortcuts are, the sort of things that you do to make the game quicker or easier. No hacks, please.

These are my two:
1. Leveling up at the well-known 2x2 "finger point." If you have a strong attacking team or a couple of Fir2 or Hrm2 and bunch of TENTs, this makes the early leveling-up a breeze. Before I found out about this I would spend hours fighting OGREs. No thanks.

2. After defeating Lich and getting the canoe, I like to next go to the Castle of Ordeals. There's a ton of stuff there useful for parties of all levels including: Heal Staff, Zeus Gauntlet, Gold bracelet, and the Ice Sword.