A few of my favourite Personal Finance bloggers quite frequently do a roundup type post detailing what things have taken their interest of late. I figured that I am an interesting guy and have my fingers in a few different pies so why not try the same… That said, this feature may spectacularly fail in… Read more
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Why do Bloggers Blog?
SavvyScot – A Personal Finance Blog. Or is it…… This blog has been a lot of things recently, but personal is definitely not one of them. I wrote a couple of weeks back what can only be described as a list of ‘excuses‘ as to why the number of (personal) personal finance posts have slipped…. Read more
Top Ways to Stay Fit in Your City Lunchbreak
Many of us spend more time at work than we do at home or doing things for ourselves. I know that by the time I get home of an evening, the last thing on my mind is heading off to the gym, which means my membership only gets used at the weekends. If, like me,… Read more
Three Things You Pay More for at the Airport
By the lack of posting, you can probably tell that it has been a looong week. So long in fact that I am struggling to keep my eyes awake as I wait for my flight back to London. If it wasn’t for the fact that I was scared I would miss my flight, I would… Read more
Where has The Savvy Scot Been? Time to Get Personal
Good evening everyone! It’s time for a personal post… and it has been a while since you have had one of them! In fact, I have pretty much failed in that category over the last few weeks! Ok so I will start by getting my excuses on the table: I started a new job… Read more
The Cost of Lifestyle Infographic
Any regular reader around here will know how much I love Infographics. I am a very visual person and seeing graphics and vibrant colours really engages me as I read! Furthermore, it’s the weekend… who wants to spend time reading a long boring post?! Enjoy…. Via: Virgin Personal Pensions
When Cosmetic Surgery Goes Wrong
Have you had any cosmetic surgery? What are your views on those that do? I must admit, I am very much of the opinion that if someone doesn’t need altering under the knife for medical reasons, they should learn to live with what they think their imperfections are. Probably the classic is breast implants for… Read more
Horror Stories of Negligence
We have been talking about medical negligence a lot this month. A few days back I wrote a post questioning whether the UK is in fact catching up with the US in the lawsuit culture. An interesting idea indeed! Today I want to share a few stories of medical negligence that I have researched from… Read more
The Operation That Went Wrong
Last week, one of my friends took ill during a business trip in Moscow. For no apparent reason, he started to feel dizzy and actually passed out at the table during a meeting. Scared and confused, his colleagues called for an ambulance. Although my friend quickly regained consciousness, he awoke to a pretty scary situation…. Read more
SavvyScot’s Lifestyle Carnival – £300 to be won!
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
Merry Christmas from The Savvy Scot
Given that today is time that should be spent with families, I don’t want to encourage you to spend time away from them reading a post online…. All I want to say is: Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you all have a magical day and spend some time with loved ones. Eat and drink lots… Read more
My Christmas Shopping: Boring to an Outsider
A few days ago I wrote a post titled: On Presents, Presence and Happiness. This post has surprisingly proved to be very popular and a lot of you wrote some pretty nice things about it, for which I am thankful! I spent a lot of time reading through the comments and some of them really… Read more