> when you close the channel, what do you do with the 1% or so remaining? I personally like to donate it to charities.

Until now, I've just re-mixed it into hot wallet. Donation is actually a great idea. The more joined coins in circulation, the better. 

I also don't close all of them - having some inbound liquidity can be useful in case someone wants to send some sats over LN. This way I don't need any LSP; I'm basically providing my own inbound this way.

> Also, do you make a new node each time?

Yes, new node, otherwise you kinda just re-join the utxos. I currently like Blixt for this. Since 3 months I started using it for this and it's super easy to just close a channel and remove the entire thing, restart from scratch. The only downside is that I've had some private channels that were rather sensitive to routing issues on Blixt though; I need to look into that.

optimism

privacy

You wouldn't give your mom a UTXO - Niftynei

Scoresby

Awesome!

Though a critical detail: when you close the channel, what do you do with the 1% or so remaining? I personally like to donate it to charities.

Also, do you make a new node each time? Your node identity should ideally be new each time.