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: 559
-20
Rating: 3.16
(19)
Version: 3.0 (Last updated: 2023-12-28)
Creation date: 2018-05-12
Risk impact: Low risk impact
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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

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Pros
  • Great idea for understanding purchases in terms of work hours
  • Works across various sites, including Amazon
  • Helps in mental framing of expenses
Cons
  • Not accurate in calculations
  • Limited to USD; does not support multiple currencies
  • Does not work for users outside the USA
  • Bugs and glitches make it hard to use
  • Converts all dollar amounts indiscriminately, even in irrelevant contexts
Most mentioned
  • Does not work in various countries
  • Inaccurate calculations and buggy functionality
  • Need for support of different currencies
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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