Welcome to the 45th edition of the Carnival of Financial Independence, a selection of the best articles related to Financial Independence this week. If you would like to be included next week, please submit your post via Blogger Carnivals. If you would like to host for a future edition, you can contact Pauline at Reach Financial… Read more
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Merry Christmas!
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a lovely time with your loved ones. What a year it has been, and I am looking forward to sharing more with you in 2014. In the meanwhile, enjoy the best of The Savvy Scot for 2013! 7 extreme sports for the cheap… Read more
Saving Preparations for the Festive Period
After today, there are only 12 Saturdays left until Christmas. Scary thought right? I’m definitely not ready to leave the longer days and weekend golf behind yet! This got me thinking that there actually only 3 paychecks left until Christmas is upon us…. very scary considering how much that time of year costs! Prepare… Read more
Income Protection and Life Insurance – The Differences and Types of Cover
There can often be confusion around income protection and life insurance policies, what the differences are, what type of policy should be taken out and what will it cover? A brief look at the two types of insurance below should provide an answer to these questions… Income Protection Insurance Income Protection Insurance policies are designed… Read more
How I Live Within My Means
Going to go off on a little bit of a tangent before we get into this post… Long term readers of this blog will know that I have a long commute to and from work. Between the two of us, we travel almost 140 miles every day. Not only is this costly from a fuel… Read more
2012 – What a Freaking Year!
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” – Soren Kierkegaard Reflection is a powerful process. Among other things, looking back at past experiences and memories helps us to remember the good that others have done for us and as a reminder to be grateful and say thank you. Reflection helps us… Read more
Safe in the Cloud
We live in a digital age where some of the world’s most valuable assets are stored on a computer. Corporation’s intellectual property literally consists of millions of lines of ones and zeros. From government secrets to the crown jewels of the companies on the NYSE. Photographs, videos, news, games, music – the list goes on…. 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
5 Things I am Truly Grateful For
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
How to Cut the Cost of Clothes
The following is a guest post from an up-and-coming blogger. Contact me if you are interested in guest posting at SavvyScot. Cutting the Cost: (from a male perspective) We all have quite a different attitude to clothes and clothes shopping. Some people insist on every item in their wardrobe being freshly updated on a routine… Read more
Packing Reminders For Your Honeymoon
Have you subscribed to The SavvyScot?You can ensure that you never miss a post by entering your email address in the right hand column —> Today’s guest post discusses some top packing tips for that all important honeymoon or special holiday. Interestingly, some of these points are very relevant to the thoughts I had after… Read more
Choosing Your Travel Wisely
Mrs Scot and I are going for a trip to Scotland over the long weekend (this weekend coming). Our trip is well over 500 miles one-way, so being the Savvy Scot that I am, I checked the price of flights months ago in order to search for the best deal. £260 each…. WITHOUT LUGGAGE!When you factor… Read more