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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

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4 tips to reach your money goals + a chance to win £5,000!

By Pauline

We all have goals for our future. No matter whether you want to go back to school, buy a house, travel or get married, goals generally require money. And we all have that one big goal of being financially secure in retirement. How do you make it happen? Here are a few steps to make sure you do.

As a finance blogger who talks about money all the time, I tend to consider that I am pretty good with all things money. But looking back at 2016, I realised that it’s been a decent year, though nothing extraordinary. You know why? I didn’t set goals. I just went with the flow, saved money… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Personal Finance Tagged With: money goals

Ready for some #SummerFUNd? Enter Dr Pepper’s sweepstake!

By Pauline

Summer is rapidly approaching and Dr Pepper® has teamed up with Walmart to launch it with a bang. Are you ready for a one of a kind summer? I know I am. I love Dr Pepper’s unique taste and often associate it with a hot summer afternoon when you really need a special cold drink…. Read more

Filed Under: Competitions Tagged With: sweepstake

Your Chance to WIN Flowers!

By savvyscot

Howdy readers! It’s been a busy weekend in the Savvy Scot household – mainly recovering from jet lag! Although I did manage to sleep for about 6 hours in the plane, you always feel somewhat groggy!   New GIVEAWAY It’s been a few months since we have hosted a giveaway, but SavvyScot has teamed up… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions Tagged With: Competition, flowers prize, Win flowers

SavvyScot’s Lifestyle Carnival – £300 to be won!

By savvyscot

Hopefully everyone had a good weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Scotland smash the Italians in the Six Nations Rugby! 🙂 I also managed to get a couple of runs in for my upcoming Tough Mudder events later this year! For those of you who didn’t catch the news, together with 2 other UK personal finance… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Entertainment Tagged With: £300 giveaway, blog carnvials, blog review, blogs on lifestyle, blogs on retirement, blogs on wealth, lifestyle, lifetstyle carnival, top blog posts, Top Blogs, travel blogs

5 Tips for Planning a Holiday – £300 Giveaway

By savvyscot

Planning a Holiday Vacation

Happy Friday everyone! I am delighted to announce that The Money Principle, Skint and the City and SavvyScot have partnered up with My Voucher Codes to bring you a fantastic giveaway with a prize fund of £300! The giveaway will last until the end of the month and one lucky winner will receive £300 (over… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Travel Tagged With: £300 giveaway, 5 top holiday tips, giveaway, tips to organise holiday, top holiday tips, win money

Understanding Structured Settlements

By savvyscot

Structured Settlement

Hopefully everyone is having a great weekend. Today I have the pleasure of co-hosting a $1000 giveaway! You may well have already seen posts from some other cohosts relating to Structured Settlements or selling annuity; if not, make sure you enter here! What is a Structured Settlement? When we hear the term structured settlement or… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Personal Finance Tagged With: Annuity payments, Structured Settlements, why you would sell a structured settlement, win $1000

Avoiding Stereotypes at Christmas

By savvyscot

Avoiding Stereotypes at Christmas

Christmas is a time when even the most disciplined of savers can be tested to their limits. Kids can be very persuasive in getting what they want; from expensive toys to the latest video games, it is sometimes too easy to give in. After all, we don’t want our kids to feel hard done by… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Saving Money Tagged With: Christmas stereotypes, money left at the end of the month, spending at christmas

5 Things I am Truly Grateful For

By savvyscot

Hello everyone. It’s been a while since I had a general update post. I have missed two Sunday Reviews now and I apologise to my blogger friends for the lack of link love. I am also very thankful that lots of fantastic people still mentioned The Savvy Scot when I wasn’t able to return the… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Self Development Tagged With: $100, $100 giveaway, 5 things I am grateful for, 5 things to be thankful for, being thankful, Thanksgiving

$100 Cash Giveaway – Emergency Funds Save Lives

By savvyscot

OK so that title was a little bit of an alarming title, but I am going to summarise something very important for you over the next few paragraphs. When someone talks about an emergency fund, what do you think of? Do you think of it as a savings account that you need when you are… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Saving Money Tagged With: $100 giveaway, emergency fund, emergency fund importance, importance of emergency funds, learn about emergency fund, why do I need an emergency fund

Wake Up Or Get Wiped Out!

By savvyscot

NEW GIVEAWAY @ SavvyScot! – The following is a guest post from author Paul Knott about his new book – Ouch! that has just been launched in the UK. I am well on my way through reading the book and can vouch that it is not only very educational, but extremely funny! I am also… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: Book giveaway, Competition, giveaway, Ouch!, Personal finance book, personal finance reading, savvyscot giveaway, UK personal finance, wake up

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