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Experience Household 6 

Spring Cleaning: Donate, Recycle, Repurpose

Mary Spangler 0 Comments , ,

April is a wonderful time of the year in Washington. The grass starts to get greener and long enough to cut. The rainy days start to slow down, and the sun has a greater presence. I get to start planning what flowers I want to plant in my porch garden and look forward to spending more time outside. Spring is definitely in full swing in the Pacific Northwest. One thing that comes along with this renewal is spring cleaning, and clearing out the clutter and lifting some of the weight away from your shoulders and your life.

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Experience Financial Planning 

How to Set Up and Use an Emergency Fund

Retired Blogger 0 Comments ,

The saying might always be “April showers bring May flowers,” but I like to rewrite it to say “April showers bring May mudslides.” I favor the latter because the reality is that life is not always going to be flowers. Even the happiest, most successful person is going to deal with disaster in their life at some point, and unfortunately, these disasters often take a toll on our finances. If an emergency arises, many times the only option is to pull the money from other equally important areas (like food or gas) or accrue debt by putting the expenses on a credit card. But, there’s a simple step you can take in your disaster preparedness that will make a huge difference. It’s called an emergency fund.

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Experience Household 6 

6 Tips for Social Media Safety

Retired Blogger 2 Comments

More than likely, nearly everyone you know is on one social media site or another. You may have a spouse on Twitter, a best friend on Instagram, and maybe even a grandparent on Facebook. These sites have become almost essential parts of our lives. We often find ourselves scanning social media, reading breaking news, and staring at our various devices for hours out of the day, and while social media can amuse us, distract us, connect us, inform us, improve us, and help us, the reality is that it can also harm us. Social media safety should be something we all consider. 

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Experience Household 6 Relationships 

Keeping the Home Fire Burning

Sharita Knobloch 1 Comment , ,

My husband is an infantryman.

I believe he chose this MOS because of the opportunity to serve, the thrill factor, and the challenge that comes with boots-on-the-ground-kicking-in-doors-and-taking-names.

Plus, he loves the color blue.

Recently, however, I have learned another interesting piece of his genetic service member make-up.

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Experience Military Life Relationships 

Growing Your Long-Distance Relationship

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My husband and I have been cohabiting for a little more than a year now, and it’s been such a delight to see him as much as I have. Crazy, huh?! It was unusual for me to see him so regularly! In the past year, there were a handful of instances that the military took him away —about three months total—but, there would be long spans of time that he spent at home. I knew we would get to this point eventually and made every minute apart during our long-distance relationship worth it. Before we got married (and even shortly after our courthouse wedding), we had a full-on long-distance relationship.

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