{"id":78119,"date":"2018-01-27T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/teacher-im-42-paid-off-my-mortgage-and-i-only-work-two-days-a-week\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T07:03:07","slug":"teacher-im-42-paid-off-my-mortgage-and-i-only-work-two-days-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/teacher-im-42-paid-off-my-mortgage-and-i-only-work-two-days-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher: I\u2019m 42, paid off my mortgage and I only work two days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRebecca Parkin, an \u2018obsessive money saver\u2019, bought her Audi TT car for cash last yearI\u2019m 42 years old and mortgage-free. I\u2019ve also managed to downshift so that I now work only two days a week full-time. It helps, I suppose, that I\u2019m single and don\u2019t have kids. I\u2019ve always been an obsessive money saver but not in a way that\u2019s really tight. I have a nice car and take one or two foreign holidays a year. For me it has always been about keeping my expenses down. The downshift was the result of my low outgoings; I could only afford to do it because I\u2019ve always been careful with money.The trouble is, if you say you are obsessive about saving money, it can look a bit shonky. Like you\u2019re nutty about everything, that you use both sides of the toilet paper to save money. But it\u2019s not like that. My parents didn\u2019t have a lot of money when we were growing up, and it has just stayed with me. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t buy what I want or need \u2013 I\u2019m just very careful. For example, when I go out to eat with friends, I always find a voucher that we can use. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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