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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

Deciding Where to Live if You Can Live Anywhere

By savvyscot

Where to Live if You Can Live Anywhere

  For whatever reason, you can live anywhere. Congratulations! That’s huge! Most people are confined to one place for their entire lives. But not you. You can go anywhere. Or you can stay a kilometer from the hospital where you were born. It’s up to you to decide. No one is holding you down.  … Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: country, Digital Nomad, Live Anywhere, retired, retirement

Great Affordable Gift Ideas

By Pauline

Just because you’re cautious about your money doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy treating your loved ones with some top quality gifts. As thanks to the power of the internet, it’s now easier than even to find something a little special with cheap tablets capable of playing online games, and voucher sites offering some amazing… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: gift ideas

10 Lifestyle Tips That Can Make You Look Younger

By Pauline

Lifestyle Tips That Can Make You Look Younger

Good morning everyone! This is a guest post from my V.A. Clarisse. Let me know if you want to guest post on Savvy Scot.  Last week when I took a selfie, I noticed that I look very stressed and I even look older than my age! I was worried and immediately picked a mirror, I… Read more

Filed Under: Self Development Tagged With: benefits of exercise, Exercise, lifestyle, lifestyle tips, self improvement

Save Big Money With: Biking

By savvyscot

Saving Money With Biking

  Biking is a fast way to save big money on a daily basis. It’s so powerful in fact that the biggest frugality blogger, Mr. Money Mustache, believes it’s one of the pillars of financial freedom. After reading his blog for a few months, it finally set in. I needed to buy a bike.  … Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: bike, biking, frugal ways, Save Money, saving tips

Oanda FxTrade Review

By Pauline

I have been trading forex with OANDA for a while now, and wanted to share my experience today. Forex is a great way to diversify your investment portfolio, on top of stock and shares trading. OANDA established its forex division in 2001, and is one of the biggest forex trading platforms worldwide. It handles more… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance

Is your house disaster proof?

By Pauline

house disaster proof

  There is a reason why the saying goes “home, sweet home”.  It is one of our most personal belongings and the place that keeps us safe. The mere fact that we sleep in our home totally vulnerable is enough proof that we think it to be the safest place imaginable. Sometimes natural calamity can… Read more

Filed Under: Investing, Personal Finance Tagged With: House, house disaster proof, natural disaster

Costly mistakes while building a home

By Pauline

building a home

When you plan on building a house, your own house, you my friend have become a complete adult. Hence you should understand that building a house is no child’s plays. If you don’t look at the house from all possible angles it many not turn into a home you want it to be. There might… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: build a home, building a home, home

7 Tips to #SaveSmarter

By Pauline

savesmarter

    Last week, we talked about the different financial personalities, and how everyone saves and spends money in different ways. If you checked out yours and fall more into the spender than saver category, today I would like to show you that saving is much easier than you think. You just need to #savesmarter…. Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: savesmarter, tips

How To Travel The World For Free

By Pauline

Want to see the world but worried about how much it can cost to go travelling? Well, fear not, because it is surprisingly easy to experience a range of different cultures on a budget – in fact you do not have to spend a single penny if you are determined enough. Our friends at The… Read more

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: travel, travel for free

Binary Options 101

By Pauline

  We often talk here on The Savvy Scot about ways to diversify your income streams. That is really important, because if you only rely on one source of income, such as your primary job, if that source dries up, you are in a tough position. I always try to have half a dozen streams… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: binary option, investing

5 Best Budgeting Apps for 2016

By Pauline

Best Budgeting Apps

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: Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: budgeting apps, mobile application, Saving Money

Nutrition for True Adrenaline Junkies

By Pauline

Extreme sports might be high-flying, hair-rising activities, but they’re also exercise. As such, extreme sport athletes should be just as aware of sports nutrition as more conventional athletes like bodybuilders and powerlifters. Whether it’s snowboarding, rock climbing, martial arts, parkour or even base jumping, getting your nutrition right so that your body is in shape… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: adrenaline junkies, nutrition

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