Time Well Spent — See prices in hours

Replace all prices with time based on your hourly wage.

What is Time Well Spent — See prices in hours?

The Time Well Spent Chrome Extension is a novel tool for all online shoppers. It efficiently converts all prices seen on online shopping platforms such as Amazon, eBay, and more into the equivalent hours you would have to work to afford each item. This calculation takes into account your hourly wage post state and federal taxes, helping you make smarter financial decisions while shopping online.

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By: gregrgreiner

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Users: 572 ▲ 2

Rating: 3.16 (19)

Version: 3.0 (Last updated: 2023-12-28)

Creation date: 2018-05-12

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

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Size: 68.52K

Email: gr*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 36903 ▲ 43

Other rankings

#1504 in Shopping ▼ 2 #12 in spend keyword 4 ▲ 1 #23 in prices keyword 48 #295 in price keyword 44 ▼ 10

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Extension summary

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This extension replaces prices on all shopping websites (Amazon, eBay, Target, etc...) with how many hours you would have to spend working to make enough money to pay that price. This is calculated based on your hourly wage after state and federal taxes. (Idea Credit: Aaron Z. Lewis)

User reviews

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Pros

Great concept for evaluating purchases in terms of time instead of money
Works well on many sites, including Amazon
Helps users reconsider unnecessary purchases

Cons

Inaccurate calculations and bugs
Does not support multiple currencies or tax systems
Unwanted conversion of prices in unrelated content (e.g., news stories)
Issues with functionality in non-US markets

Most mentioned

Not working properly or bugs
Desire for support of multiple currencies (GBP, EUR, etc.)
Inaccuracy in the conversion of purchases to time

Recent reviews

This implementation replaces the number completely so you are not able to see the actual price It does not recognize text strings such as thousand, million

Matthew Kowal, 2022-12-13

Love the idea but its a shame its unexcetionaly buggy :(

Michael HaZe, 2019-11-04

I think this extension is so helpful, HOWEVER, it would be super great if you could also enter the number of hours in your typical workday for very large purchases. For example, I had something up that said it was only going to take 132 days of work to pay off, but multiplied by the typical # of hours in a workday (8), it actually came out to 1056 days! From ~1/3 of a year to almost 3 years! Huge difference in mental framing.