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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

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I Can’t Believe It’s March Already!

By savvyscot

March Already

It seems like only a few days ago I was writing a January update post… where the heck did February go? February was an EXPENSIVE month for me. Within a four week period, I have to contend with the following – Mum’s Birthday Valentines Day Mrs Scot’s Birthday Mother-in-laws Birthday Car Insurance Renewal Paying for… Read more

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: March update, Tough Mudder, Win Canon Camera, Win digital SLR

Rainy Sundays

By savvyscot

I have been a busy bee for the last week or so. Aside from traveling to Belgium, everything else has gone mad! Don’t have time to write a post today (due to the banging headache from drinking a litre of rum last night), but thought I would leave you with a thought for the day…… Read more

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: rainy, Sunday

June: Things of the Month

By savvyscot

I’ve been off the radar for a few days. Unfortunately I had to move my hosting to another provider as my last provider was hit with a continual DDOS (Dedicated Denial of Service) attack. For the less tech-savvy of you out there, a DDOS attack involves using a network of hijacked (infected) computers to constantly… Read more

Filed Under: Entertainment, Updates Tagged With: Cocapoo, Cocapoo puppy, Golf, New puppy, starting golf, Tough Mudder, TV show tracking

Carnival of Financial Planning

By savvyscot

As you read this I am frantically packing… Ahead lies a 4 day party weekend in Riga, Latvia before a week in Moscow… Busy times ahead. This has forced me to be quite proactive and actually write in advance. Lots of great posts below.. Enjoy! 🙂 BUDGETING AND ECONOMICS Kevin Giffin @ http://www.summernanny.com writes HOW… Read more

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: blog carnival, blogger carnival, Carnival of financial planning

Savvy Scot does the Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

By savvyscot

Happy Sunday everyone. The spammers have been out in force this weekend – I understand that numerous GoDaddy hosted blogs have been compromised. The hack basically involves spammers infecting the WP-INCLUDES folder with malware and leads to Google red-listing your blog. This is bad news for any blogger as it basically puts-off 99% of visitors… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: blog carnival, blogger carnival, Carnival of financial planning, feb blog posts, finance blog posts, financial camaraderie, top finance blog posts 2013

A Blog and Life Update for February

By savvyscot

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope you had a great weekend and start to your week. Unfortunately SavvyScot got hacked over the weekend and I spent most of Sunday reloading the site… from scratch! The only positive that I can take from the experience is that I learned a lot about SQL and very much realised the… Read more

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: blog income, blog stats, blog update, blog updates, earning update, how much do you make blogging, how much make blogging, Income updates, passive income updates

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

By savvyscot

Subscribe to SavvyScot Updates – Enter your email address:   It seems like only 5 minutes ago that it was Friday… yet it is almost time to go back to work. The weekend has literally flown past. It’s that time of the week again where I review the stats at SavvyScot and mention some great… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, razorpit, Top Blogs, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

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Subscribe to SavvyScot Updates – Enter your email address:   It’s that time of the week again where I review various statistics at SavvyScot for the week and give a big shout out to my fellow bloggers whose posts I have particularly enjoyed this week! The weekend may almost be over, but there is still… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, Ouch Book, Ouch giveaway, razorpit, relayrides giveaway, Top Blogs, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

By savvyscot

Have You Subscribed to SavvyScot.com updates by entering your email address in the box ? –> What a mental week.. I had the pleasure of seeing Nickelback live in the O2 Arena in London on Monday which was absolutely fantastic! Mrs Scot and I also went to watch a movie called ‘The Room’ in central… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, Ouch Book, Ouch giveaway, razorpit, relayrides giveaway, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

By savvyscot

Subscribe to SavvyScot.com updates by entering your email address in the box to the right –> It’s that time of the week again where I review some of my favourite posts of the week in the blogosphere and reveal some stats about SavvyScot. Firstly, I am pleased to announce the Five Winners of the Ouch!… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, Ouch Book, Ouch giveaway, relayrides giveaway, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of The Week

By savvyscot

Have you subscribed to SavvyScot.com updates by entering your email address in the box at the bottom of the page?   Today concludes another extremely busy week. Apologies to all my friends that I haven’t been around and commenting so much / at all this week! I will make up for it as of tomorrow,… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, Ouch Book, Ouch giveaway, relayrides giveaway, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

By savvyscot

Have you subscribed to SavvyScot.com updates by entering your email address in the box at the bottom of the page? It’s that time of the week again where I take a look at the progress of SavvyScot and recommend some great reads from around the web. The Relay Rides giveaway concluded this week, with Elle… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Updates Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, Ouch Book, Ouch giveaway, relayrides giveaway, Sunday review, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs

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