A savvy woman has revealed how she managed to buy her first home for £139,000 at the age of 24, having saved up since her paper round when she was just 14 years old. Sarah Yates was keen to get her foot on the property ladder as soon as possible but soon discovered how difficult it would be to do it alone.
However, the impressive first-time buyer used her good money management skills and made some sacrifices along the way to achieve her goal, the Manchester Evening Newsreports. The journalist, now 27, has been an "avid saver" since she was a teenager when she started her first job on a paper round.
She kept up the morning delivery gig until the first year of college, but admitted that she quit after she was left "mortified" when one of her classmates spotted her. She said: "I’ve been an avid saver since I was young, when I was about 14 I had a paper round and I didn’t stop doing that until I was in the first year of college.
