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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

Career Options for Adventurous People

By Pauline

firefighter

When you have an adventurous spirit, the idea of sitting behind a desk and staring at a computer screen is unimaginable. Follow your passion for unusual, exciting experiences by pursuing a career that will give you grand opportunities while feeding your daring side. Firefighter As a firefighter, you’ll respond to emergencies, tackle fires, and face… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Career Options

Make Money Selling Your Old Books, CDs and DVDs Online

By Pauline

  A survey from Ziffit has found that 30% of UK households sell their things for cash, in spite of the average UK home containing 119 unused books, CDs and DVDs! While this is not a way to make millions, this is definitely an easy way to make some cash while getting rid of your… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: make money, selling your old books

Low Cost, High Volume: Top Android Apps for Penny Stock Traders

By Pauline

Investors like to invest in penny stocks because of the possibilities that can occur in such a short time frame. At such low numbers there is the possibility for the stock to make massive gains. On the other end of the spectrum is the ability to lose massively as well. That is why it is… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: penny stock traders

The cost of living compared between countries

By Pauline

Have you ever wondered what it costs to buy one same item around the world? When I was living in London, I often cringed at the high prices of everything, but on the plus side, traveling abroad seemed very affordable. Research from 247Moneybox.com shows that there are indeed places on Earth that are even dearer… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: cost of living

The Earth Awaits: Discover Amazing Places to Retire

By Pauline

This is a guest post from The Frugal Vagabond, a personal finance blogger and software engineer living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. He writes about personal finance, travel hacking, and early retirement, and is always looking for new and creative ways to live a life of his own design. He can be… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: retire, retirement

Could A Better Car Improve Your Ride Sharing Sales?

By Pauline

There’s a lot of full-time drivers making a living off all the riding sharing apps that have popped up in the past few years. It’s a legitimate business with a lot of room to grow, which means being a professional rideshare driver is likely to get a lot more competitive. But if you start early… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: ridesharing

Are you Saving Enough for your Child’s Future?

By Pauline

  What kind of future do you visualise for your child?  Do you hope they will learn to drive and buy a car, go to university, get married, and buy their own home? How often do you think about how much these things cost? As a parent, you might put money aside every month in… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: child's future, saving

10 “Bad” Money Habits and How to Get Rid of Them

By Pauline

10 "Bad" Money Habits and How to Get Rid of Them

One of the things that make bad money habits hard to break is that we don’t even recognize we have them in the first place.  Just as with any other issue we may have in life, the first step to start improving it is to spot it and then turn it around. These 10 bad… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: bad habits, bad money habits, Money

5 Ways Home Ownership Can Help You in Retirement

By Pauline

5 Ways Home Ownership Can Help You in Retirement

  Among Millennials, home ownership has declined to historic lows, and with good reason: crippling debt, a high cost of living, and skepticism about the American dream all conspire to reduce young people’s commitment to home ownership. Their parents might even begin to wonder if Millennials are onto something, but home ownership remains a savvy… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Home Ownership, retirement

Ways in Which You Can Pay Off a Payday Loan

By Pauline

Payday loans are usually temporary, short-term loans (advances to be technically correct) to help you deal with a short-term financial crisis. They are usually expected to be paid off within a fortnight, or on your next payday or as per the agreement. But, they are usually unsecured and so that rate of interest tends to… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: payday loan

Do You Really Need a Cloud-Based Video Conference Platform for Your Company?

By Pauline

Video conferencing has gotten big – much bigger than it was only about a decade ago. It wasn’t that long ago when getting people together for a project meant physically getting them together – not starting a chat room and working away with the help of sophisticated collaboration software and more. But times have changed,… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: video conference

Why looking for the best savings deal simply isn’t enough

By Pauline

  You’ve worked hard and you’ve saved some money, and now you’re looking for the best way to make that money work hard for you. Unfortunately it’s not a saver’s market right now. Interest rates are at a record low of 0.25% and there’s little sign of them rising anytime soon. This means you’ve got… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: savings

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