Time Well Spent — See prices in hours

Replace all prices with time based on your hourly wage.

Time Well Spent Chrome Extension- Transform Prices into 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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Extension stats

Users: 571
22
Rating: 3.16
(19)
Version: 3.0 (Last updated: 2023-12-28)
Creation date: 2018-05-12
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 68.52K

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Extension summary

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

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Helpful for understanding purchases in terms of work hours
  • Great concept and idea
  • Works with Amazon purchases
Cons
  • Bugs and glitches prevent it from functioning properly
  • Does not support multiple currencies
  • Inaccurate calculations for time based on price
  • Unwanted conversions of dollar amounts in text
  • Limited compatibility with non-US sites
Most mentioned
  • Does not work properly or at all for many users
  • Desire for support of different currencies besides USD
  • Issues with accuracy in calculations
User 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
by Matthew Kowal, 2022-12-13

Love the idea but its a shame its unexcetionaly buggy :(
by 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.
by Troy Brennan, 2019-09-24
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Time Well Spent — See prices in hours requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Time Well Spent — See prices in hours has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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