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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

The Fastest Ways to Prepare Cheap and Healthy Meals at Home

By savvyscot

Prepare Cheap and Healthy Meals at Home

  If you’re reading this, you probably spend too much time cooking. Your diet is probably a bit worse than it should be as well. Or maybe you just find yourself ordering in or popping out to a restaurant way too often. All of these issues will be addressed in this post. I know how… Read more

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: foods, healthy meals, Healthy Meals at Home, prepare cheap meals

How to Work Longer Hours in Order to Make More Money!

By savvyscot

Working Longer Hours in Order to Make More Money

  Think about it like this. It’s simple. Let’s assume most people work 40 hours per week. Most people do not really work that much but let’s still use it for our example. If you work twice as much, 80 hours per week, you will accomplish in a 6 months what takes everyone else a… Read more

Filed Under: Money Making Tagged With: make more money, tips, work longer hours

How to Find Your First Job upon Graduation

By savvyscot

Find Your First Job upon Graduation

      There’s little argument that finding your first job is the hardest. Oh, well. At least you’re getting the hardest career step out of the way first. With that said, many people have a difficult time getting into a long-term, full-time job. This blog post will share the many things to implement that… Read more

Filed Under: Money Making, Self Development Tagged With: First Job upon Graduation, graduation, tips

Break up with Your Boardroom and Collaborate Online

By Pauline

The year is 2016 and it’s the height of the information age. Therefore, if you’re still restricting yourself to in-person meetings in the boardroom, you’re wasting both time and money. You can do everything from keep your workforce global to cutting back on travel costs with online meetings. What’s even better is the multitude of… Read more

Filed Under: Money

How to Find Your Latte Factor

By savvyscot

find your Latte factor

  What is the latte factor? You can read the excellent book called The Automatic Millionaire for the background on the idea. Here’s my quick version. I had heard of the latte factor before but just read the book the few days ago.   The latte factor started out as the idea that if you… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: Find Your Latte Factor, Latte Factor

Buying Property in the UK: A No-Surprise Financial Timeline

By Pauline

  Buying a property can be a stressful process for anyone, especially if it is your first time. Here is a guide to the stages of buying so that you know what to expect, which will help to make the move less stressful. Find Out How Much You Can Afford The first thing you will… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Home insurance

What to Know Before Investing

By savvyscot

Before Investing

  Many people think investing is some risky game that’s foolish to play. Some people are scared of any talk about investing in the stock market. Some people think it takes great skill to invest in the stock market. Some people invest but they do so poorly. This blog post will tell you everything you… Read more

Filed Under: Investing Tagged With: investing, investment, knowledge in investing, what is investing

4 ways to improve your financial responsibility

By Pauline

Financial responsibility is one of the toughest things about becoming an adult. Learning to manage money isn’t something anyone masters overnight. In fact, being financially responsible is an evolving practice which you’re never finished with, no matter how old you are. When your finances are in shambles, however, or you don’t even know how much… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: financial responsibility

Tricks for Spending Less on Clothing

By savvyscot

Spending Less on Clothing

  Clothing is one of those expenses we all must navigate. But fear not. Clothing doesn’t have to be expensive. And fear not again. You don’t need to look like a homeless person just for the sake of saving money. The following post shares ways to spend less on clothing – so you have more… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: clothing, saving tips, spend less, spend less on clothing

How to invest with robo advisors

By Pauline

Robo advisors are the new thing when it comes to investing. Simply put, robo advisors are automated investment management software. Unlike actively managed funds, they are using algorithms to help you choose how to allocate your funds when you invest. Robo advisors take away the emotional part of investing, so they can be better than… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: investment, robo advisors

Five Top Ways to Build Your Credit Back Up

By Pauline

Your credit score may just be the most important thing for maintaining your financial health. The number impacts your ability to receive home loans, car loans, credit cards and just about anything that involves loanable funds. The better the credit score you have, the less money you will pay in interest on any type of… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Credit Back Up, top ways

Busting Tax Refund Myths

By Pauline

Tax time can send many people for a spin. This stressful season is full of warnings and reminders, urging you to take care of your filing quickly and efficiently. Everyone has a different idea of what method is best when it comes to tax filing, and many sources promote myths that might send you in… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Tax Refund Myths

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