Teacher: I’m 42, paid off my mortgage and I only work two days a week

Rebecca Parkin, an ‘obsessive money saver’, bought her Audi TT car for cash last yearI’m 42 years old and mortgage-free. I’ve also managed to downshift so that I now work only two days a week full-time. It helps, I suppose, that I’m single and don’t have kids. I’ve always been an obsessive money saver but not in a way that’s 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 expen