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.

Extension stats

Users: 584 ▼ -1
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
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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • 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
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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