This is just one aspect of an austerity drive where I try to rein in my daily spending to that daunting $35, which is in the ballpark of the $32 daily budget that I arrived at in the Young & Savvy column two weeks ago. I calculated that this figure would allow a person starting work at 25 years of age to hit $100,000 in savings and investments by the time he was 30. But it has been an uphill struggle – reflecting reader comments after the article that it would be tough to live on such a budget. My personal plan has been to ...