April’s Military Family Newsletter

The VA offers a Cash-Out Refinancing Loan that allows you to refinance and get some money out of your home while still using the VA home loan guarantee. Although these loans were not as popular just a little while ago, they’re coming back because of changes in legislation. The Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2008 has added many improvements (hence the name of the bill) that can save you up to $20,000 more than before.

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Penny Pinching
Penny-pinching … Don’t think of it has a burden. Think of it as a challenge! Some people are natural budgeters others of us find it a major stretch. Stretching the value of a dollar is important in this day and age. After all President Obama hasn’t included *MY* household in his stimulus package. Although, I sure could use a few thousand dollars if he finds any extra in his pocket-book.All this money-talk though has me thinking about ways that we can save money, a nickle at a time, even. (Continued)

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Household Penny Pinching from the House Guy!
We owned homes while on active duty but spent a lot of time in military housing too as we moved so many times. One of the challenges of post military living has been household expenses and budgeting. We chose to live near family in a cold winter environment with a propane tank due to our country lifestyle. As we try to control electrical and propane bills we also saw the rise of fuel prices so it became critical to maintaining our costs. We like to travel and needed to see what we could do to save precious resources. We also saw it as a way to decrease demand and increase supply and help our environment. Our dollars saved can go into the penny pot for travel!

Here are some Household Penny Pinching ideas that we found to be very helpful: (Continued)

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