His Hers Money

We haven’t posted anything here on the site about Him being out of work but he has actually been out of work since July 15th. He is in the Army and was mobilized for the past year. Luckily he was mobilized here locally so we didn’t have to deal with long distance pressures. When his orders ended he was left in a state of limbo where he didn’t know if his orders were going to be renewed and if they were when it would happen.

Financially things haven’t been that tight as he was paid through the middle of July and then was also cashed out for his remaining vacation time and was also still owed two reimbursement checks for housing. UNfortunately we still haven’t received all of the payments owed to us but we did manage to squeeze by without having to put anything on the credit cards or dip into our savings.

We decided to look at other employment options for Him. I work as a Defense Contractor (like a large portion of the professional population in the Washington DC metro area) and we decided that maybe moving from the Government side so the contractor side might not be such a bad idea. So fast forward a couple weeks to today and he has received and accepted a job offer to be a contractor doing almost the same exact job as he was doing before and today is his first day!

He will still be part of the National Guard and will work his one weekend a month and of course could possibly be deployed in the future but for now he will go to work M-F like the rest of this town in a shirt and tie.

Over the next week we will be looking at how to merge His paycheck and retirement savings into our overall financial picture and will keep everyone updated.

I have definitely gotten completely sucked into the Summer Olympics lately. Every night I’m tuned in starting at 8pm until it’s time to go to sleep. As A result we have not been going out to eat or out at night which has saved us quite a bit of money. We did go out on Friday night for a good-bye send off for a friend of ours who is moving to Florida next week but other than that we haven’t been out at all.

Of course like most of the country we have been watching all of the swimming and are completely impressed with Michael Phelps and all of his and his teammates accomplishments. We have also been watching the gymnastics and really don’t even want to get into the age controversy of the Chinese women’s gymnasts. I just glad that the American women did at least get a silver medal in the team competition and a gold and silver in the individual all around competition.

We are very proud of the amazing accomplishments of all the Olympians!