+332 When you're tempted to buy something with your hard-earned money, look at the price instead as the amount of time you'd spend working for that amount. So you might see a $40 video game and think, "That's 5 hours of labor right there." The next step is to ask whether it's still worth it. This method should help control impulse buying, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's only an hour and a half for me...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Congratu-fucking-lations.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

5 hours for me, too! :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I never buy video games

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's an example, Jesus.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its a reply, God.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But...it's irritating when people pick apart the specifics of the examples used to illustrate the opinion, rather than discuss the idea itself .__.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

4 hours for me. And I thought my job paid well :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I actually don't make that much either. It'd be even more than 5 for me because I make $7.50/hr...before taxes :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There shouldn't be taxes on wages that are less than double digits per hour.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If only ;_;

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wish this worked for me, I usually end up justifying it to myself in some other way. Last week I bought 11 hours working worth of shoes and was "Oh well I haven't bought shoes in a while" : /

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't work yet, but this will help when I start :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I voted yya 'cause it should work key word being should, but for me it never does :( Maybe I should pay for some money management classes -_-...or learn some self controll

by Anonymous 13 years ago

everyone i know does this already

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Seeing as 99% of the things I buy with my own money are video games, I judge it by how long the games are, if its worth it. A Sonic the Hedgehog game, 6 hours. Fallout New Vegas, 100+ hours.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Great ''tactic'', I actually use it without thinking and often save me some money. I earn about 25$/h, but I live in Norway and everything here is really expensive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hmmm, roughly 2.5 hours for minecraft...... TOTALY FUCKING WORTH IT

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Holy shit! That's what I already do! ... except I usually end up buying the product anyway.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's six weeks of chores for me ._____.

by Anonymous 13 years ago