Did you know… Mission: Milspouse published its 3000th blog post in 2023 and is still growing!
6 Tips to Get Your Credit in Shape
Good credit habits, like good gym habits, aren’t built overnight. They take time and discipline to develop.
The challenge for a lot of people is knowing where and how to begin.
If you’re ready to start today, these six habits can help you strengthen your financial portfolio and get you on track to homeownership.
Be Someone’s There
A couple of nights ago, I got a text. Just a few simple words, but they meant so much.
“Hey, are you okay?”
On a scale of 1 to 10, I was at a 7 of not okay. Classes were taking their toll on me, homework was piling up around me, even part-time work seemed like too much, and the house looked like three tornadoes tore through it. All the nopes (my organizational skills can only do so much, apparently).
Letters of Love
With the advent of new technology, many things have changed over time. The equipment our service members use is much more advanced. Our children learn in very different ways than we did. And our means of communication have drastically changed, no longer requiring handwritten letters of love.
2 Steps for Furthering Your Education
It’s an age-old dilemma. You need to earn more money, but to do that you need to get a better job. In order to get a better job, you need to go back to school. But to go back to school, you need to be able to pay for tuition. In order to pay tuition, you need to earn more money.
So how do you overcome this particular dilemma?
Here are two ways that can help.
5 Cozy Books to Cuddle Up With This Winter
Now that it’s finally starting to get cold here, I want nothing more than to sit on my couch with a mug of hot chocolate, two or three blankets, and a book. With the weather getting nastier, now is the perfect time to really sink your teeth into some good winter reads.
6 Ways to Make Friends at a New Duty Station
Recently, our family PCS’d to my husband’s new duty station assignment. Granted, it’s only about five hours south of the post he was previously assigned to, but for me, it might as well have been a world away. I’m an introvert by nature, and admittedly, I’m only three years into my military spouse journey and still on the learning curve. Although, I’ve been told the learning curve never really goes away because, as soon as you figure out how the military system functions, they decide to change things up!
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