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Helping Military Families Make The Most of Their Money

Make More Money Selling Your Textbooks With BookScouter


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Colleges are finishing up the spring semester, and students are headed off campus with a backpack full of expensive textbooks.  Right now is exactly the right time to sell those books back, get top value, and move that extra weight out of their lives. When I was in college, there were two basic options for… | Read More…

The Math of Buying and Selling Houses, Military-Style


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The topic of home ownership for military families is a hot one.  I absolutely agree that there are many reasons that a military family may want to buy a house:  the pleasure of being able to do whatever you want to the house, the guarantee that you won’t have to move mid-tour, the difficulty in… | Read More…

Keeping Your Pantry PCS-Ready All Year Long


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Like many military families, my family has a pre-moving tradition of figuring out how to eat all the food that has accumulated in our freezer, refrigerator and pantry.  After over two decades of doing this, I think I’ve finally got the process down.  Better yet, I’ve figured out how to make this part of our… | Read More…

Everything About Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA)


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When a military person or family is executing Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders, there are two similar allowances that help defray the cost of staying in temporary lodging after moving out of your house, and before moving into a new house.  The two allowances are slightly different depending on whether you are within the… | Read More…

Temporary Lodging Expense (TLE)


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When executing Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders, a military member may be authorized one or two similar allowances that help defray the cost of staying in temporary lodging after moving out of your house, and before moving into a new house.  The two allowances differ just a bit, depending on whether you are within the Continental United… | Read More…

What Is A Certificate of Non-Availability?


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I’m working up some big posts about Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances for Temporary Lodging Expense and Temporary Lodging Allowance, and I realized that not everyone might understand about Certificates of Non-Availability (CNA) and how they work. Military members are almost authorized some temporary lodging while executing a PCS move.  It is intended that lodging… | Read More…

Keep Your Costs Down On An Overseas PCS


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Each year, thousands of military families execute a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move to a location that is outside the Continental United States (OCONUS.) Despite a generous array of allowances, there are still plenty of out-of-pockets costs. Careful planning can help you to ensure that you keep those non-reimbursed expenses to a minimum. Learn… | Read More…

My Journey to Earning $140 of Gift Cards on Swagbucks


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We are renovating a house, and one of the items I really want, but can’t really justify, is a separate small fridge for drinks.  I’ve priced them out online, and the one I want has a regular, new cost of $179 at Home Depot or $159 at Walmart.  I know I can use the military… | Read More…

The DoD Should Change Their “Stuff” Policies


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If you’re military, you’ve probably done a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move.  And if you’ve PCSed a few times, you’ve probably noticed some inefficiencies in the system. I have long believed that the Department of Defense (DoD) should completely rework the PCS entitlements that get military family’s stuff moved.  I think an overhaul would… | Read More…

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