Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

Do you know how much your time is really worth? Today we discuss when to trade money for time and vice versa. There are things we all hate to do, mowing the lawn, painting, cleaning, food shopping.  Or maybe you’re a weirdo who loves those things.  That’s okay. Takes all kinds.  How do you decide if you should do these kinds of things yourself or pay someone to do them for you? Math, that’s how.  The simplest way to get a yes or no answer is to work out how much you make an hour, even if you’re not paid hourly.  You’re worth $20 an hour, it costs $5 a week to have Fresh Direct deliver your groceries.  It would take you two hours to drive to the store, shop for your items, pay, drive them home and bring them inside. Unless you’ve turned food shopping into a speed sport like Matt has and can bang the whole process out in fifteen minutes.  If you hate food shopping, then it makes sense for you to pay for Fresh Direct. But it’s not always just a matter of dollars and cents and time.  Maybe you work from home