According to AffordAnything.com, putting $50 into your gas tank costs 2.5 hours of your life.
Here's how that is calculated: A person earning $54,500 a year earns $27.25 per hour (working 40 hours per week). They lose 28% of their income to taxes, so their take-home pay is $19.62 per hour.
If you think of things you buy in terms of hours off your life, that $100 jacket takes off 5.5 hours.
Merely shaving $150 off weekly expenses saves an entire working day.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
