After over two years of no deployments, I have a six month deployment to the Middle East coming up in 2017. Deployments are excellent opportunities to lower your expenses, increase your income, and stuff your tax advantaged retirement accounts (TSP and IRAs) full
Budgeting: why bother? I find budgeting to be a chore and would much rather focus my limited time for my finances on increasing my income and investing. We only have 168 hours in a week, 112 of which are spent
In this article I run my personal financial independence plan through several online retirement calculators. Every calculator is only as good as the assumptions that go into it. Some calculators run “Monte Carlo” scenarios in which they run thousands of
Happy 2016! This year, military pay rose 1.3% and BAH rose for many. In total my pay will jump about $6000 from Jan 1 2016 to Jan 1 2017, mostly from a years of service pay bump and my BAH
This is my 100th post on Military Money Manual and the third year I’ve been writing. You can see all my posts in reverse chronological order here. I’d like to take this post to share a bit about the site, why
This fall, without much fanfare (other than this post), I finally made $1000 online. Cash money, in my bank account, via direct deposit or mailed check. I did this without signing up for any scammy or spammy “MAKE MONEY ONLINE
I graduated college with $60,000 in student debt. When my wife and I got engaged, she was carrying $45,000 of student loans. Between us, we were working against over $100,000 of debt. Unlike debt incurred for property (like a home
Andy used his GI Bill to pay for medical school. It’s an awesome benefit that all servicemembers should be aware of and should take advantage of if they are heading to school after they serve. The GI bill, whether Montgomery
Thanks to Jonathan from My Money Blog for the idea to run auto insurance quotes for military families. Many of the major car insurance companies offer discounted rates to military servicemembers. I run car insurance quotes every 2 years or
We have reached another milestone in our journey to financial independence. After 2 years, 5 months, and 26 days of repayments, I made the final payment on my USAA Career Starter Loan! When I started repaying the loan, it had