Last week I found myself trying to survive on £3 ($5) a day. Well, that sounds rather ambitious. The truth was that I had my weekly train ticket and was skipping breakfast but I knew that dinner was waiting for me at home in the evening.
So my £3/$5 was for newspapers, lunch and coffee.
But suddenly I realised that Starbucks is an expensive habit at £5/$8 for coffee and a muffin.
Especially when lunch could be a sandwich for £3/$5 !
Then the day after I finished that self-imposed hardship regime I bought two soft drinks in the railway station for a total of more than £3/$5 plus a packet of crisps/chips for about £1.
In other words I spent more on an easily-forgotten snack than I did on lunch.
