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When a Hotel is Home

November 23, 2021November 25, 2021 LaVaughn Ricci 2 Comments gratitude, military family, Military Life, PCS

Sometimes, I enjoy the simplicity of staying in a tiny place, whether it’s a guest room in a family home while on R&R, a calling a hotel home while traveling, or a temporary lodging facility (TLF) on an installation during the transition of a PCS. Maybe it’s even a cramped apartment while stationed overseas. Sure, it can be a challenge as family members trip over each other while getting ready in the morning, or figuring out sleeping arrangements, or having six family members share one bathroom.

But, I also appreciate how small spaces can actually tend to alleviate a little stress.

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The No Good, Very Bad, COVID PCS

October 22, 2021October 19, 2021 LaVaughn Ricci 2 Comments military family, Military Life, PCS

Almost every day, for the last three weeks, I’ve started my morning with a special brew. I walk down to the cozy café (that is, the breakfast lounge of the installation hotel—PCS, anyone?), and pour the nearly fresh coffee into its signature Styrofoam cup. I’m a decaf person, but depending on the night from which I have just awoken, I may mix myself a half-caffeinated cup of coffee, or a few times now, full-on regular.

So yeah, it’s been a little rough.

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AWTR Show #847: Tips for DIY Remodel

September 16, 2021 AWN Command Team 1 Comment advice, finances, PCS, support

In this week’s MEM Kayla gives her tips for DIY remodel to help to ease your stress when remodeling a house. Kayla has great insight into doing a DIY remodel.

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What First-Time Renters Need to Know about Renters Insurance

August 25, 2021August 18, 2021 MilitaryByOwner Advertising Inc 1 Comment advice, Military Life, PCS

During your first PCS, you’re so overwhelmed from learning move.mil and jumping through all the hoops that you’re just trying to survive the chaos. You’ve also packed, loaded the car, and headed to the new house you worked hard to find and budget for. Your first thoughts driving across the country probably aren’t about renters insurance, but military families need renters insurance.

When you’re first starting out, you don’t know what you don’t know, right?

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Twice in a Year

August 21, 2021February 16, 2022 Retired Blogger 1 Comment advice, Military Life, PCS

Two major PCS twice in one year. That’s two moves in less than 12 months…

1 out of 5 stars—do not recommend.

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If You Had a PCS in 2021…

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Sarah Peachey 3 Comments friendship, military spouse, PCS

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

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Scot Shumski 1 Comment Germany, Military Life, military spouse, OCONUS, PCS

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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My Top 5 Kitchen Essentials

July 29, 2021July 23, 2021 Retired Blogger 2 Comments PCS

Today, I’m sharing my top five kitchen essentials. When bringing items into my home I try to make sure the item is multipurpose. Ideally, I’d prefer using a simplistic approach, however, that isn’t always the case.

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4 Ways to Cope in Temporary Lodging

July 27, 2021July 31, 2021 MilitaryByOwner Advertising Inc 2 Comments PCS

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!