How Much Should You Contribute to Your FSA?

A flexible spending account (FSA) can be a great way to cover your out-of-pocket medical expenses with pre-tax money—meaning you can save money just by putting funds aside for your medical costs that insurance doesn’t cover. But if you’ve never had one before, you might be confused about how much money to contribute.

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Author: Lisa Rowan on Two Cents, shared by Lisa Rowan to Lifehacker

Liven Up Your Turkey Gravy With Nutritional Yeast

Nutritional yeast—known as “nooch” around my studio apartment—is best known for the savory, cheese-adjacent flavor it brings to vegetarian and vegan dishes, as well as popcorn. But the yellow flakes have applications outside of their hippyish beginnings, particularly when dealing with sauces and gravies.

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

How to Introduce Your Kid to the Wild World of Social Media

One of the trickiest parts of parenting is teaching our kids how to safely do things that have a great potential for harming them. It starts with teaching them to use scissors safely when they’re preschoolers, then sharp knives to cut their own food and, before we know it, how to drive a car. We don’t like it but we…

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker

How to Harness the Placebo Effect When You Have a Cold

A cold being a viral infection, there’s not much you can do to make it go away. That means most of the remedies people swear by—think vitamin C, essential oils, elderberry syrup—are only making you feel better, not literally fighting your cold. But since feeling better is kind of the point, here’s how you can get the…

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Author: Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker

Invite Corn Nuts to Thanksgiving Dinner

Usually, when drawing up the guest list for a dinner party, one tries to minimize the kooks and troublemakers, but one does not have this luxury with Thanksgiving, as most of the guest list is made up of family members. You may have to invite your nut of an uncle, but you can also invite a different kind of nut—the…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker