Originally Posted by PaulRivers

My example took the "my time is free" philosophy and went way to the polar opposite side, sure.

But while I would agree that my breakdown is an exaggeration, I don't really agree that it "doesn't apply to most people". I mean it doesn't agree wholeheartedly, yeah. For most people it's not the direct $/hour breakdown that I mentioned.

But we do put a cost on our time. We pay for things that save us time. If we didn't, you would have bought a bike for commuting to work and people who aren't carting children around would simply walk everywhere. Need to go to work? If time wasn't worth anything we wouldn't spend money on a car, we'd just spend 1.5 hours walking there an back each day. We would all change our own oil and fix out own cars because for the most part it's just a matter of taking the time to learn and taking the time to doing it. Do you go to the grocery and buy the ingredients and cook all your meals yourself or do you often eat out? Etc etc.

It's the end of the day on Friday so maybe my post will accidentally come across differently than I meant it. There is a point where your time is worth something, and it's certainly not as clear cut as maybe I made it sound in my post. I hate washing dishes, but changing bike tires isn't bad, and riding to the store on my bike on a sunny day is fun - even if they all took the same amount of time they wouldn't be "worth" the same amount. Washing dishes would be "worth" more because I dislike it, changing tires would be in the middle, and paying more money to drive the car to the store when I could bike for free and enjoy it more doesn't make any sense at all (assuming I have the time to do it).

Just saying that personally I do generally view my time as worth - something.