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by Rebecca Prince

Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate family. If you live far from home, though, making the trip to see your family might be too expensive. That doesn’t mean you have to spend the whole week curled up in bed with Netflix, though. You can fight the homesick blues by throwing your own Thanksgiving, right from your dorm.

So Thanksgiving is two weeks away!  You know… that holiday that comes BEFORE Christmas with all the food, family, and being grateful.  Sorry, I digress – back to the point at hand. 

If you own a mobile device, you are familiar with updates. It seems that not a day goes by that one or more of your apps have a new version available for you to update. In addition, Android, Apple, and all of the other manufacturers provide periodic updates to enhance the device and address known issues.

Are you struggling to make ends meet until your next paycheck?  You’re not alone!  Living paycheck to paycheck has become a pretty common problem for many middle class American families. 

Life rarely turns out the way we plan, and when a surprise comes along, it’s usually not an opportunity to simplify our lives.  If you’re one of the many parents blessed with one more angel than you had planned for, you understand just how such surprises can make the simplest things much more complicated.  Or maybe, the innocent angel you’ve been raising has entered adolescence and wants some space alone.  Or maybe, it’s gone the other way for you:  You bought a house when prices were low, and wages were tight - and now that you have some equity and a higher income, you’d like to bump up your standard of living.