Here’s Why My Family Prioritizes Life Insurance
This post is sponsored by USAA Life Insurance Company and USAA Life Insurance Company of New York. All work and opinions are my own. Life can be surprising. And, sometimes, military life can be absolutely shocking. From unexpected orders to PCS problems, from making life-long friends at the most desolate base to a surprise geo-baching […]
Do Military Spouses Need Insurance?
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of USAA Life Insurance Company and USAA Life Insurance Company of New York. All opinions are 100% mine. I used to be a teacher. When John and I were dating and engaged, I taught English to juniors and seniors in Baltimore City. I loved my […]
Military Families, Use One of These Strategies to Kickstart Saving Money
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Navy Federal Credit Union. All opinions are 100% mine. Navy Federal is federally insured by NCUA. There’s an old adage that goes something like this: if you want more money, you can either make more or cut back. There’s a lot of truth to […]
5 Considerations When Bootstrapping Your Business
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Navy Federal Credit Union. All opinions are 100% mine. In 2013, John (who was my fiance at the time) called me from Afghanistan. It had been months since we had seen each other in person and the video was blocky and lagging. John was […]
Here’s a New, Legit Way Military Spouses Can Make Money Anywhere
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Shake. All opinions are 100% mine. When I married John, I was giving up a career that I had worked hard to establish. I was a teacher. I had a master’s in teaching and a lot of experience that suddenly… seemed like it had […]
The Money Talk: Military Couples, Finances, and Figuring It All Out
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Navy Federal Credit Union. All opinions are 100% mine. I wasn’t going to marry John if he had credit card debt. That’s the truth. I told him that I’d wait for him as long as he needed to pay it off. The credit card […]
9 Reasons Military Families Need a Buyer’s Agent During a PCS
This post is sponsored by PCSCashback.com. All opinions and work are my own. It’s hard to believe that John and I have been homeowners for nearly three years. Those three years have given us insight and perspective. How should we have done this? Or that? What seemed like a good idea then wasn’t the best […]
Here’s How to Plan for Military Retirement
Welcome Charlene, a military spouse and guest poster today! Life is full of transitions and stages – nobody knows this better than military families! For us, life can be divided up by the usual milestones: graduations, promotions, marriage and the birth of children. We also track other milestones, marking time in deployments, assignments and relocations. […]
7 of the Best 2019 Veterans Day Discounts
It seems that every year more and more companies and organizations celebrate Veterans Day with offers for service members and veterans alike. We know some of the usual suspects–I’m looking at you, Red Robin, and your delicious, delicious burgers and unlimited fries– but I wanted to collect some of the more surprising discounts you may […]
4 Ways Military Families Can Save While Shopping
This post is sponsored by Unilever’s Operation In Touch. All opinions and work are my own. I stared at our bank account. The number was perilously low. The fall of 2013 was the hardest, financially for us. We were a newly married couple and, like many newly married military couples, I had left my professional […]
