Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to consider how any expense will affect how you spend your time.

This tip comes from Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton's book

Happy Money, The Science of Happier Spending. Done and Norton are perhaps best

known for their recommendation that buying experiences often contributes more to our happiness than buying stuff.

Their book has lots of advice on how to spend money in ways that boost our happiness.

We'll explore a handful of them in episodes this week.

Today's tip is this.

Before spending money, done in Norton

advise asking yourself, how will this purchase change the way

I use my time.

Generally speaking we want to have more enjoyable experiences and fewer unpleasant ones.

We want more time having brunch with friends and less time cleaning toilets.

Dun and Norton Wright time and money are frequently interchangeable. So one way to spend money well is to buy back

time from unpleasant experiences so we can do more of what we want. This could mean springing for the more expensive plane ticket

to buy yourself more time on the beach and less time in the airport. It could mean

paying for grocery delivery so you don't spend your Saturday at a crowded grocery store.

Take a minute to think about the unpleasant experiences you have in a typical week.

Which of them could be changed? Whether it's getting a

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