Archive for February, 2008
Happy Birthday Household6!
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Thanks for coming back to visit! If you would like to be a guest blogger at ArmyHousehold6.com - please let Tammy know!
Can you believe I’ve been blogging here at Household6 for 2 years now? Well actually it was February 23 2006 but I was very sick that day so no blogging occured.
So much has changed since then… our kids, us, Dan’s rank, our duty station,etc. Even the blog has changed.. from Blogger now here on Wordpress! I wonder what holds for us and the blog over the next 2 years and beyond… only time will tell. For we all know the saying, Expect the Unexpected!
It’s funny to go back and read some of my original posts and how little I knew about the Army back then. I was the one seeking out advice from those “more experienced” Army wives and now I’m giving out the advice. The Army has certainly given us an education over the last couple of years. Although, Dan has been in only since 2005, it still seems like yesterday I was seeking answers to PCS moves, Tricare, EFMP Resources, etc.
Our audience has also grown quite a bit over the last few years and I’ve met some wonderful friends, online and offline. I started out with 1 reader (me!) and now we’ve grown to over 150 readers including my hubby! Thank you!
So before I get too mushy and get my keyboard all wet… Happy Birthday Household 6!
Tammy
Free Financial Webinar for Women Sponsored by USAA
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Many of you know how much I absolutely love our bank, USAA and how they make my life so much easier! Ok if you don’t know, our bank USAA is best bank in the world. You definitely want to check it out if you’re not a member… tons of perks and great products/services for the military member and military family! While I was logging to my account today, I saw this …
USAA To Host Free Financial Webinar for Women
Topic: Wiping Out Debt — Your 2008 Action Plan
Date: March 4 at 7 p.m. CST
Wiping Out Debt — Your 2008 Action Plan features USAA’s Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner June Walbert. June will share financial strategies for reducing debt and answer viewers’ questions.
Participants will have the chance to win one of 10 Financial Strategy Consultations (value $195 each) offered by USAA Financial Planning Services. The webinar is free, but registration is required.
Are you a military spouse or active military? Click here to register
Looking for Dads…
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USA WEEKEND, the nation’s second-largest magazine as carried in 600 US newspapers, is looking to continue its cover-story coverage of the great things that our deployed troops are doing overseas with a Father’s Day themed cover story for its 6/15/08 issue: Great Dads Serving This Nation.
We’re interested in getting e-mail responses from dads serving overseas who are also fully involved with their families at home: Whether it’s helping out a child with homework, a schoolyard bully situation, puppy love, a Boy or Girl Scout project, a teacher conflict, etc., we’re interested in how our deployed dads are doing whatever it takes to ‘be there’ for their kids. Is there a Dad who helped ‘coach’ his kid on a new swim stroke thousands of miles away? Or one who ‘took part’ in a longtime
family tradition via today’s techno-tools somehow? We’re interested in these kinds of stories, or any others that come to mind that play into this theme.
Please send your summaries no later than March 10 direct to Dennis McCafferty, the senior writer at USA WEEKEND who overseas all military coverage for the magazine
USPS will begin offering discounts for Priority Mail rates
Posted by: | CommentsThe U.S. Postal Service will begin offering a discount Priority Mail rate March 3 and a larger box for care packages sent to military members overseas.
The new flat-rate box is 50 percent larger than the current Priority Mail package and it will be delivered for $10.95 to an APO/FPO address – $2 less than for domestic destinations.
“This is the first time the Postal Service has offered a special price for our armed forces serving overseas,” said Postmaster General John Potter. “We’re proud that family and friends will be able to use this new larger-sized box to send much appreciated packages from home to our dedicated troops overseas.”
The new Priority Mail Large Flat-Rate Box (12″ x 12″ x 5 inches or 800 cubic inches) will be available in Post Offices nationwide beginning March 3, but customers can begin ordering them Feb. 20 at usps.com/supplies or by calling 800-610-8734. Some of the new boxes are co-branded with the logo of America Supports You, which is a Department of Defense program that connects citizens offering support to the military and their families.
Do your taxes for FREE!!
Posted by: | CommentsMilitary.com and TurboTax have partnered up for an amazing deal for Military families. You can use TurboTax Online Free Edition now. You can also upgrade and save 15% on other TurboTax Online products!
Click here to find out more!
DannyBoy did our taxes there on Tuesday and we should have our refund by this upcoming Friday. Talk about quick turnaround time! It even found a couple of deductions that we didn’t even know about!
