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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

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Carnival of retirement, Happy Easter!

By Pauline

  Welcome to the Carnival of Retirement! You can submit for next week’s here.   Hope you are enjoying the long weekend and have a nice Easter.       Maria @ The Money Principle writes Who Earns More: Commercial Landlords or Property Investors? – Commercial landlords vs. property investors: the battle is on. Dominique… Read more

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Have you ever been denied a credit card?

By Pauline

    As the recession begins to ease up around the UK, more and more people are turning to credit cards as an easy option for the instant cash fix they need to level out their finances. With New Year’s Resolutions seeming like a distant memory, the bid to make yourself a savvy spender may… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: credit, credit card, denied

£5 broadband AND line rental for 12 months for O2 customers moving to Sky

By Pauline

As you may know if you used to be an O2 customer, O2 sold mid 2012 to Sky. Meaning, you were automatically transferred to Sky for your broadband and line rental deal. For many of you who, like me, enjoyed O2’s great customer service, this is a bummer. But, there is a silver lining, at… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: broadband, connection, customer, Internet, line rental, O2, Sky

Savvy Scot does the carnival of financial planning

By Pauline

Welcome to the carnival of financial planning! Enjoy those great posts, if you would like to submit yours for next week, that is right here.   BUDGETING AND ECONOMICS Jester @ The Ultimate Juggle writes Does Technology Equal Productivity? – One of my new friends and I like to talk about new business ideas. The… Read more

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Savvy Scot does the carnival of retirement

By Pauline

Good morning and welcome to the carnival of retirement, a selection of great posts related to retirement. For more information you can visit  www.carnivalofretirement.com and submit your post for the next edition on Blogger Carnivals. Enjoy!         Wayne @ Young Family Finance writes Forget the Past and Focus on the Financial Future – You can’t go… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: carnival, retirement

Buying a website as an investment

By Pauline

Hi there! Today I share my experience buying and starting websites as an investment over at Money Stepper. You can read more here…

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: buying a website, website

NAMING Help Required – We are Getting a CocaPoo!

By savvyscot

Pets have been a frequent topic of conversation in our household; Admiring the Rabbits at the pet store, filling our pond with fish and borrowing the in-laws dog for the weekend. I always had pets growing up – dogs, guinea pigs, rabbit, cats and a pygmy hedgehog, yet since moving out and getting married we… Read more

Filed Under: Entertainment, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cocapoo, names for a dog, naming a dog, new dog

Making the Most of Your ISA Allowances

By savvyscot

As the end of the tax year is only days away, now is the time that UK residents should be thinking about their ISA allowances. The 2012/2013 allowance for adults is £11,280 – up to half of which can be put into a cash ISA. I have previously discussed investment ISAs in greater depth, but… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance, Uncategorized Tagged With: cash ISAs, compound, Compound Interest, investment isa limits, investment ISAs, ISA allowance, transfer ISA, transfer ISA allowance, transfer ISA limit, What is an investment ISA?

Remember How Much I Love Infographics?

By savvyscot

Are you a visual person? I certainly am. My friend Elaine over at Mortgage Free in Three is a bit of a genius when it comes to designing Mind Maps. Companies pay her a lot of money to read business books and evaluate them in a diagrammatic map. When I was studying in my masters… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Infographics

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

By savvyscot

Savvyscot has had a new burst of life recently. Those of you who follow this blog regularly will know that I have been really busy this year, from getting married in Thailand to buying a house to going on honeymoon and then the excitement of the Olympics, but finally I have some time back! I… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Sunday, Sunday review

Why You Should Become a Toastmaster

By savvyscot

Why You Should Become a Toastmaster

Toastmasters is probably not the best choice of word for a speakers club in this day and age. When you say Toastmaster you see an image of very posh man in a red coat with a big sneering grin.  A bit like this:   The truth of the matter is that Toastmasters is a fantastic… Read more

Filed Under: Self Development, Uncategorized Tagged With: Speakers Club, Toastmasters

I am Still Alive!

By savvyscot

Alive

I am still alive. I have had the most craaazy weekend ever moving and don’t yet have internet in my new house. In the mean time, I am taking lots of pictures for everyone – including some of the controversial ‘credit-card furniture’ 😉 – Stay Tuned Everyone 😀

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alive, Moving, New House, Update

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