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The Savvy Scot

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Viewing posts tagged with: debt

Living below your means: it is harder than it sounds

By Pauline

Living below your means

  When someone says that you should try “living below your means,” most of us immediately think that we need to simply stop spending money, buy things only on sale, and put away quite a bit while trying to live just above the poverty line. The fact of the matter is, that isn’t exactly the… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Balance, budget, cash, credit, credit card, debit, debt, Money, save

Choosing the best credit card for you

By Pauline

Wherever you are in your financial journey, at the very beginning trying to pay off debt or closer to financial freedom trying to maximize the rewards on your card, it is important that you choose said card carefully. Many sites today help you compare the cards and their different features, like Totally Money. Generally, there… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: balance transfer, credit card, debt, reward, savings, totally money

Are you ready to be a landlord?

By Pauline

ready to be a landlord

At the moment, I have a rental property in Surrey. I had no idea things would turn out this way, you can say I became a landlady by accident. I was living there, but working a job I hated, and I really wanted to do something else with my life. So I made one of… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: bank, Banking, buy to let, credit, debt, landlord, leverage, mortgage

Ways To Consolidate Your Debts

By savvyscot

As household debt continues to rise, at the same time as many household incomes are flat lining, there is increasing concern about how many people can meet their existing debts. Unemployment and falling incomes also mean that there is more danger of many people accumulating further debts, to cover every day living expenses. Clearing debt… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: combining debt payments, debt, Debt consolidation, how to consolidate debt

More Money Means More Debt

By savvyscot

Premiership football is back and it has been another busy summer of spending by the 20 clubs involved. Whilst much is made of the levels of debt at the clubs, what about the levels of debt for the people in the areas represented? Debt Free Direct have worked out the average debt per person per… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: cost of football, cost of season ticket, cost of supporting football, debt, debt from football, football club debt, football costs, Football debt, how much does it cost to support newcastle?, how much does it cost to support sunderland, how much does it cost to support swansea, newcastle club debt, player debt

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