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If you are PCSing this year, then you’ve come to the right place!

Here at Mission: Milspouse, we’ve faced our fair share of relocations, DITYs, government moves, overseas stints, and everything in between. We’ve been there and done that, and we have the stickers to prove it.

With all that experience, we know how stressful it can be. Packing and loading mean moving all of your belongings—special things, irreplaceable things—and none of us really want things broken or damaged. While we can’t ensure there won’t be casualties of PCS, we can help you prepare to make the move a little smoother.

Check out all of our blog post pertaining to all things PCS. Get ready for some practical tips AND insight into experiences of those who have been there, moved that. 

If You Had a PCS in 2021…

If You Had a PCS in 2021…

by | Aug 5, 2021 | , , ,

If you read that first line and thought, “Ooh, I have to see what this says,” then you probably PCS’d in 2021. 

If you didn’t PCS this year, you probably still know the hardships that this year was for military families around the world.

A tight housing market and shortages within the moving companies threw many of us for a loop.

The excitement of viewing homes on realtor.com quickly turned to dread, and even fear, as fewer and fewer options became available. 

Bidding wars started on houses where, in the past, none would have existed. 

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Milspouse Life, A Better Me

Milspouse Life, A Better Me

by | Jul 31, 2021 | , , , ,

Like many spouses of military servicemen and women, I get caught up in all the reasons why it is not fun to be a military spouse. From deployments, having to spend thousands on hidden costs like the new pinks and greens uniforms and PCS season where essentially everything you own is scooped up into a giant washing machine. And, like a washing machine, everything gets tumbled around, sometimes things are destroyed, and sometimes things are lost (like that one sock).

But while out for a run the other morning at our new duty station, Fort Lee in Virginia, I had time to think about the positive changes military life has brought to me.

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4 Ways to Cope in Temporary Lodging

4 Ways to Cope in Temporary Lodging

by | Jul 27, 2021 | , ,

PCS season is underway, and if you’re moving this year, you know what that means.

Time for “creative” dinners with the last remnants of your pantry! (Really, someone needs to create a cookbook with recipes designed to use up a case of ramen, the final squirt of a mustard bottle, a dusty bag of Craisins, and a gallon of peanut oil.) 

Along with your not-so-master-chef debut, you’ll also be sorting through closets, overseeing the movers, cramming a forgotten toy into a suitcase after the moving van pulls away, checking into temporary lodging, checking out of temporary lodging, along with all the wrangling of pets, children, plans, and sometimes… our service members! 

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