“Upgrading your home doesn’t have to mean blowing your budget on expensive furniture or outfitting it with the latest technology. In fact, sometimes it’s the small, inexpensive things that can make the biggest difference in your day-to-day life,” writes Candace Nagy. And she’s got a lot of ideas for you in this piece. Personally, I need some LED lights for underneath my kitchen cabinets… my eyes aren’t what they used to be. (And even that wasn’t great!) Check it out.

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

Gather round, because today we’re talking about that stage that strikes fear into the hearts of parents everywhere: the teen years. “I feel like I’m too late, I messed up, I should have done a better job. I get sad when I see oldpic,” admits one person; “I thought as kids get older it’ll be easier. Ha! What a joke,” says another. And this one is cracking me up: “She ‘knows’ everything but when asked anything... I get back ‘I don’t know.’” Classic. If you’ve got something to get off your chest, the link here. And if you want to browse past Confessions, head here.