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Kudos to the 21 year old junior at university who has the extra capital to invest 2500 USD in something, and by "usually" I assume invested around the amount several times. I'm already impressed by having the amount available, never mind available for a lottery ticket (as the author of the article calls it).

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Yeah, at that age I worried about not overdrawing my account to pay rent and still having enough money to buy salsa, tortillas, and beans to last through the week.

Back when I was 19 I learned you could steam vegetables in a rice cooker, you can actually live very cheaply if you don't eat meat. I think I probably spent about $10 a day on food, compared to now where I probably average between 30 to 60 a day

I rented the shittiest room in a shittiest shared house possible, so I could use some of the living allowance part of my financial aid for buying food. One summer the financial aid was a couple of weeks late, so I basically had to stretch what non-perishable food I had left until the money arrived.

When that check finally materialized in my account, I ran out to Pizza Boli's and ate two big cheese calzones in one sitting. I still love calzones.

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