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Holidays are hard.  DPPL’s got 4 ways to make them easier

'Tis the season and all that.  Some of us love it and are natural  holiday merrymakers. Some of us just kind of, well you know.... hate it.  For you bah-humbuggers the holidays can be hard, but DPPL can help. Here are four ways to put a little more 'happy' in your holiday.

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Who needs Party City? Make DPPL your Halloween costume destination

This would be me if I had my Halloween act together. Credit: Matthew Stewart, http://bit.ly/1wByxDg

Gosh, I love Halloween. And so do the rest of you, by the looks of it.  According to Forbes, 158 million of us got our Halloween on last year, spending an average of $78.03 per 'celebrating consumer' on decor, costumes, candy and fun.

We spent $2.6 billion on costumes alone (not counting the $330 million spent on pet costumes.

Can't leave our pets out of the fun.

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What We Don’t Know

Many of us are not thrilled about approaching the doorstep of winter, but this time of year affords a unique perspective to our lives. I remember playing football in my backyard at the edge of a Pennsylvania forest and stopping, as the sun had almost set, to peer into the gathering shadows of the woods. I wondered if I just saw something move in the tree-filled murk. While there would obviously be nothing there (or was there?), my curiosity has always been piqued by tales of the unknown, the undiscovered, the untold or the unseen.

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Give me more! Teen trilogies for everyone.

What's the fix for saying goodbye to your favorite book? Find a trilogy that you love. Books being marketed to teens today have broad appeal. Like all good fiction they have the ability to stretch your imagination, pull at your heart, quicken your pulse and take you to another time and place....just sometimes with werewolves and zombies in the mix. So don't pass up a book just because it has "High School" on the spine label.

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