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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

How to Save Money When Visiting the United States

By savvyscot

visiting the united states

  When visiting another country, it’s easy to spend obliviously. You’re out of your comfort zone. You’re not even sure how to behave normally, yet alone how to one up everyone by saving money on things. But this post will help you prepare for great savings when you visit the United States. Let’s get started…. Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: how to save money, how to save money in the UK, Save Money, United States

How to Pick a Second Hand Car

By savvyscot

pick a second hand car

Picking up a second hand car can be tricky. It’s so tricky, some people avoid the activity altogether. They instead go straight for a new car. Financially, that’s a mistake. You lose much of your value the moment it leaves the new car dealership. I HATE taking a financial hit like that so I can’t… Read more

Filed Under: Transport Tagged With: car, car owner, picking a car, Second Hand Car, used car

5 best budgeting apps for 2017

By savvyscot

Let’s take a look at the top 5 budgeting apps of 2017, to get the year started with money in your pocket

Saving, future planning to be specific is a uniquely humane aspect. We flaunt this skill gloriously while saving/controlling our money expenses viz. budgeting. But budgeting is a tad bit time consuming, plus people nowadays have a knack to do everything on their smartphones. So in compliance to these costumers’s yearning, we have budgeting apps. So… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: 5 best apps, budgeting apps

Have a Buy Nothing Year!

By savvyscot

Buy Nothing Year

I’ve been reading about a consumer spending countermovement called Buy Nothing Day. It’s celebrated on Black Friday. Instead of buying tons of stuff, you buy nothing.   Since Black Friday isn’t for awhile yet, I want to try this one a regular day. But I’ve realized it’s far too easy for me to spend nothing… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: Buy Nothing, Buy Nothing Year

Your Site or Blog Gets Hacked…. How do you fix it?

By savvyscot

Click here for a 30% OFF Hostgator coupon and start your blog from $4.86 a month Everyone Hates Hackers Let me start with a mini-rant: Why do people bother hacking small independent businesses/bloggers? Like seriously, I can almost understand that some hackers have a political vendetta against governments or organisations and the reasons for redirecting to funny or… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Technology Tagged With: Fix hacked wordpress blog, fixing configuration file, fixing infected blog, how to fix infected wordpress site, how to fix malware on wordpress, how to fix wordpress blog, infected WP-INCLUDES, migrating host, restoring wordpress database, restoring wordpress from backup, wordpress configuration file, Wordpress SQL database, WP-INCLUDES hacked

The Reasons Why People Get into Debt

By savvyscot

The Reasons Why People Get into Debt

When we are born, we have no debt. We don’t owe anyone anything. Yet the average person has thousands of pounds in credit card debt. The purpose of this blog post is to flesh out the reasons for the change. Do people get debt because they can’t help but get debt? Or have they made… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: debt, Get into Debt

The savings culture and percentage of saving, around the world

By savvyscot

To better our understanding of the issues that influences savings, here is a quick look at the saving culture in different parts of the world

Saving is a crucial part of our financial life. We spend over 1/3rd the time of our adulthood to grow profits. But times will come when we can’t work hard and we need to save up money. Though this is a very clear idea, not all people save equally. Some save more while others don’t… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: savings, savings culture

How to Save Money Whilst in a Relationship

By savvyscot

Save Money Whilst in a Relationship

  Relationships can be expensive! So expensive, in fact, that I think some people contemplate if they’re even worth it. For me, I must say they are worth it. I think relationships are so much more important than money. But even with that being true in my mind, that doesn’t mean you must spend blindlessly… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: love life, Money, relationship, Saving Money

How to Create a Fast £500

By savvyscot

Would you like an extra £500? Of course you would. This post will show you how to get it.   How much stuff is in your house right now? If it’s more than you can wrap your head around, it’s time to sell, sell, sell! Yes, everything you don’t use, you should sell. Why? Because… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized

How to Quit Your Job on Good Terms

By savvyscot

Quit Your Job on Good Terms

Everything in life is about timing. When you get married, when you get pregnant, when you buy your first house, when you quit your job. Yes, most of us will quit a job at some point in our lives. Gone are the days of our grandparents when a person did the same job for 40… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: how to, quit your job

Ways to Save While Young

By savvyscot

Save While Young

Want to have a fantastic financial future? Begin saving now! Yes, like right now. By saving right now, you’ll put yourself in an excellent place.   What happens with many people in their 20’s is they forget to save. Instead they spend all their money. Each time they get a raise at work, they spend… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: Save Money, Save While Young

Can we really trust financial advisors?

By savvyscot

Can we really trust financial advisors? So here are 8 things you need to know before making that man your financial advisor

You really shouldn’t trust strangers in money related issues, especially when your own wealth is involved. But undeniably wealth management is necessary and you might just not know all there is to properly invest. So financial advisors are necessary and they will not “steal” your cash (unless they are con-men) par say, but they might… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: Financial Advisors

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