Never ever use
-[NSNotification removeObserver:]to unregister from notification events, except from a dealloc method. This might cancel registrations made by a parent class, and you cannot know how a parent class is implemented (at least you shouldn’t care). Stick to this rule even if your parent class is NSObject: Your class hierarchy might change in the future, and you do not want to run into problems when you don’t have to, do you?
(via Cédric Luthi)