Well, the first week I had my civic I really scraped the front fender up bad. (I momentarily forgot that I wasn't in a pickup...)
Since then I've taken the time to note the point were the curb is out the left window and how that relates to the distance to the curb. (hopefully that makes some sense...) Still, every once and a while I'll lightly kiss the curb. But, now that I've got a better idea were the nose of the car is it's so much easier to sneak up on the curb, rather than just roll up and over it. Plus, the Honda lip kit hides this sort of thing alot better than the stock fender does.\
The first thing I'll do with the sky once i get is to park it in the driveway, then about a foot in front of the nose I'll set up a line of cinder blocks, about 4-6 inches heigher than the driveway. Then I'll get in the car and find some landmark that will give me some indication of how close I am to the curb.
Of course, this depends on me getting it home without scraping the fender.
