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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

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

Make Your Fiscal New Year’s Resolution A Reality

By Pauline

Make Your Fiscal New Year’s Resolution A Reality

After a long and expensive holiday season, your finances could be in a lot of trouble, and it could be all thanks to where you live. While the National Retail Federation puts the typical Christmas budget at roughly $805 per person, many of the communities in Texas go above and beyond the national average. Everything’s… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: New Year's resolution

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

Happy Holidays!

By Pauline

Happy holidays! Have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, see you in 2017!

We’ll keep this one short and sweet. I hope you all had a lovely year, saved a ton of money and reached your goals 🙂 It has been a great year here at the Savvy Scot, views are up, we had a few cool features on bigger publications, and are very much looking forward to… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: happy holidays, holiday

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

Has Brexit Affected London’s Notoriously Expensive Housing Market?

By Pauline

There has been a lot of uncertainty so far following The Great Britain’s exit from the EU, and one of those uncertainties includes the future of the housing market. Many feared Brexit would drastically reduce consumer confidence in the housing market, but that has not been the case. The effects of Brexit fears did not… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Brexit

Here’s How to Make Saving and Investing Your Money Easy

By Pauline

Though they do realise the importance, quite a number of people find saving and investing their money rather difficult and thus they tend to keep putting it off. This is because most people think that one should have lots of money or a high level of financial knowledge before you can save and invest successfully…. Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: investing, saving

5 Reasons you Should Unplug

By Pauline

5 reasons you should unplug

It is happened before, maybe more than once, and maybe more than once in a day.  You hop on social media with the intentions of sending a direct message or inbox message to one person.  You scroll your timeline first.  You then notice your old college room -mate got married, your ex has a new… Read more

Filed Under: Self Development Tagged With: social medias, unplug, unplug from social media

Basic Troubleshooting for Video Meetings

By Pauline

Basic Troubleshooting for Video Meetings

You’ve been looking forward to your big day. You’ve prepared your best business clothes, got a great haircut, and have practiced your spiel for days on end. It’s time to finally nail that important meeting with your IT boss once and for all. Just then, you hear from your boss. They’re asking you if you… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: video meetings

EASY AND SMART WAYS HOW TO SAVE MONEY ON GAS

By Pauline

Once you get a car, there never ending dilemma starts – how to be able to drive wherever you like without filling the tank every day. Knowing the fact, that gas today is not the cheapest thing, a few tips which might help out to save money might be pretty handy. So, we are going to… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: Save Money, save money on gas

The only financial number you need to know

By Pauline

For financial and business goals, this means knowing your financial number. I believe that knowing exactly what you’re trying to accomplish allows you to focus your efforts in business on reaching concrete milestones.

John Delia is a young developer and landlord from East Hills, NY now residing in Columbus, OH. He studies City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University. Having started his own investment firm at age 21, he now writes and talks about building passive income through real estate and living life on purpose at Life… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: financial number

9 Tips On Saving Money While Moving House

By Pauline

Eventually you’ll have to move someplace else and usually the move will be expensive and tedious. Here are ten ways to cut the bills while moving to your new home. 1 – Close the deal quick Don’t waste too much time on negotiating and looking for buyers. There are a lot of service that will… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Money, Saving Money

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