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The Savvy Scot

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Viewing category: Saving Money

5 Exceptional Ways to Teach Your Kids about Money Management

By Pauline

5 Exceptional Ways to Teach Your Kids about Money Management

Although we value education, we almost never teach our kids about financial education. This can often take them to make money mistakes in the future that can become burdensome for both you and your family. When your child finishes university and he starts having expenses such as rent, food, and even debt, he may not… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: money management, teach your kids

How to NOT save money

By Pauline

Saving money is considered a virtue by most of us. However, there is actually a “wrong” way to do it. We all know prices are going up all the time. In fact, the Centre for Economics and Business Research recently stated that the average home price in the UK will increase 25% in the next… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: Save Money, Saving Money

On Presents, Presence and Happiness

By savvyscot

On Presents, Presence and Happiness

We can all remember what Christmas meant to us as a kid. I remember how the night of Christmas Eve always passed so ridiculously slowly. The second hand used to tick that little bit louder as if to remind you of every second that was passing. I loved pretending to be asleep as my parents… Read more

Filed Under: Reflection, Saving Money, Self Development Tagged With: Attitude towards giving, enjoying giving, Giving, how to enjoy giving, importance of christmas, pleasure out of giving, presence for christmas, presents for christmas, spotlight, why giving is important

5 Simple Ways to Lower Your Housing Expenses

By Pauline

5 Simple Ways to Lower Your Housing Expenses

Good morning everyone! Over at Reach Financial Independence, I have a guest post from Tina Roth a personal finance blogger at PROFinance blog. She will share a few simple tips to guide you about how to save on housing expenses. Click here to read more…

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: housing expenses

5 Top Tips for Saving Money on Food

By savvyscot

Saving Money on Food

  There was an article today in the news regarding food waste. Studies have shown that an average family in Britain throws away about £680 ($1000) of food every single year! This amounts to 7.2 million tonnes of waste food – 4.4 million tonnes of which could have been eaten (over 60%). Let alone the… Read more

Filed Under: Food, Money, Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: Food Tips, Saving Money on Food, Shopping Smart

Affordable activities for the whole family

By Pauline

activities for the whole family

Наvіng fun wіth уоur kіds thіs summеr shоuld nоt bе а hаsslе оr ехреnsіvе. Yоu hаvе mаnу орtіоns іn уоur оwn bасkуаrd оr nеаrbу раrks оr rесrеаtіоnаl аrеаs. Маkе а summеr оf fun уоur kіds wіll rеmеmbеr fоrеvеr. Whеn thе summеr hеаt іs gеttіng tо уоu, соnsіdеr wаtеr fun оn уоur оwn рrореrtу. Ѕеt uр… Read more

Filed Under: Money, Saving Money Tagged With: activities for the family, affordable activities

Cutting Back on My Basic Spending

By savvyscot

My Basic Spending

Click HERE for Part 2 I want to start this post by saying that the cupcakes that I blogged about making yesterday were a massive success! Although it did take me two full hours and a lot of energy! I know it is not polite to give kudos to your own cooking, but the cupcakes… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: Basic Spending, Cutting back on basic spending, cutting bills, Cutting costs, cutting monthly outgoings, how much pre-tax salary, pre-tax salary worth, reducing bills, saving money on monthly expenses, tips to reduce monthly outgoings, tips to save money

Moneystepper’s 2015 Saving Challenge

By Pauline

Moneystepper 2015 Saving Challenge

Fancy a new challenge in 2015? Want to save more money and become wealthier? If you do, Moneystepper.com may have just the thing for you. The Moneystepper 2015 Savings Challenge is a free community where participants in the challenge are working together to accelerate their climb up the steps to financial freedom. So, how does… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: challenge, saving, saving challenge

Enrolling In The Thrift Savings Plan

By Pauline

Enrolling In The Thrift Savings Plan

  Hello everyone, please help me welcome Marvin from  www.brickbybrickinvesting.com and www.tspinvesting.com. You can connect with him on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Google + | LinkedIn. Many people have a lot of concerns about saving enough money for retirement, especially given the current state of the economy and the issues with various pension plans. In truth, the very things that most people once… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: money saving, savings, thrift, thrift savings plan

How to make frugal Christmas decorations

By Pauline

Christmas Tree

As I am not really big on Christmas, I am happy to have my VA Clarisse who is a Christmas enthusiast, talk about frugal Christmas decorations today. Enjoy!   When the months ending in “BER” start, for us it means that Christmas is just around the corner! And when we speak about Christmas, we are… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: christmas, Christmas decoration, Christmas tree, decorations, frugal Christmas, Holidays, old decorations, snow jar

Would you have roommates as a family?

By Pauline

Would you have roommates as a family

I read an article on The Atlantic about two married couples getting a  house together in D.C. so they could split the mortgage and other household duties “for the next few decades hopefully”. While I have lived with roommates for most of my college years and the first few years as a professional, I always… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: House, roommates

Saving Money at Baby Showers

By Pauline

Baby Showers

    Good morning every one, this is a guest post from Glen, he is the owner of www.howtosavemoney.guru, a personal finance website dedicated to helping people save money and find financial freedom. Glen recently paid off over $300,000 in mortgage debt within 7 years, and he wants to share his money saving tips with others… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: Baby Showers, pregnant woman, Saving Money, saving tips

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