Author: Percy Olsen

Percy Olsen lives in Astoria, New York, where he practices law, spends quality time with his family and writes when he can. His work has recently appeared in Bluepepper.

If you have a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), time is not running out for you to spend your pre-tax savings. But if you, like this humble author, let the calendar flip to 2024 without having used all of your cash, you know all too well the sting of a blundered healthcare budget. Of course, you can’t just solve this problem by filling your pantry with Tylenol, because technically that would make you a “hoarder” in the eyes of the IRS and your judgy roommates. So set a reminder to revisit this page in December, because if you’ve already read this…

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Every Blockbuster in your hometown is now a Boost Mobile. Everyone knows that coriander and cilantro are the same herb, but not many know that parsley is also this same herb. And they thought they could get away with it too. The toys that used to come in cereal boxes have been replaced with lost innocence. The world’s alligators are meticulously being replaced by crocodiles. Nobody knows why, and nobody will ever notice. In recent years, the streamers have tried to pass off identical footage as different techy-biopic TV shows (e.g. WeCrashed, The Dropout, Super Pumped). While certainly entertaining, you…

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