kovalcik
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The price of my time is the hardest for me to calculate when decideing what to charge for my work. It is something I do to relax. It is sort of like someone else getting paid to read a book or play video games.
A related aside, at Christmas my family does a Yankee swap, but every gift has to cost a dollar or less Everybody tries to come up with either the most wanted gift or the one nobody wants. (I got stuck with a 3' tall plastic wise man one year. My sister in law is a yard sale queen!). A lot of ingenuity and work go into the gifts and a lot of time is used to make up for the $1 limit. I usually go with something off the lathe. I often wonder at the true value of some of the gifts vs the $1 price tag. It goes a long way to demonstrate the difference between cost and value.
A related aside, at Christmas my family does a Yankee swap, but every gift has to cost a dollar or less Everybody tries to come up with either the most wanted gift or the one nobody wants. (I got stuck with a 3' tall plastic wise man one year. My sister in law is a yard sale queen!). A lot of ingenuity and work go into the gifts and a lot of time is used to make up for the $1 limit. I usually go with something off the lathe. I often wonder at the true value of some of the gifts vs the $1 price tag. It goes a long way to demonstrate the difference between cost and value.
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