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HELP SANTA Retailers hire tens of thousands of extra workers for the holidays, with some gigs paying as much as $16 an hour (although $11 to $14 is more common).
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8EOI ER I\XVE WLMJX For everyone from retail clerks to housekeepers, job website SnagAJob focuses on hourly work. You can search for parttime jobs and specify when you want to work, like nights or weekends.
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Paired with highdeductible health plans, these portable accounts allow you to set aside pretax dollars for medical expenses
now or in the future. A single person making $60,000 (in the 25% federal tax bracket) who puts away $288 a month in an HSA would save $863 a year in federal income taxes. Once you’re retired, you can use HSA money for Medicare premiums.
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You’ve probably already heard about Groupon’s restaurant, fitness, and beauty deals, but did you know you can also use the site for discounted eye, dental, and chiropractic exams? If you visit the chiropractor twice a month, and your insurance doesn’t pay the average $68 fee (as per Chiropractic Economics magazine), you’ll save around $1,000 by using pack-
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