Two of the main resources people have are time and money. The world offers many opportunities to trade one for the other, at widely varying rates.
I've often heard people recommend trading money for time in the abstract, but this advice is rarely accompanied by specific recommendations on how to do so.
How do you use money to buy time or otherwise make your life better/easier?
See also the flip-side of this post, "what are you surprised people pay for instead of doing themselves?"
I'm always shocked to see rich folks complaining about how long it takes to do various routine tasks/maintenance. Like, if you don't like mowing the lawn, hire someone. If you don't like picking stuff up, then leave it on the ground or hire a maid. Basically, once you have a lot of money, you shouldn't spend time in ways you don't want to.
Have you tried asking them why they don't pay someone else? Because I can imagine a few reasons (some of them rational, some irrational) for doing so.
Maybe some of them are richer than average, but not rich enough to start paying people for doing things for them. Some people may seem more rich than they actually are, if they optimize for showing wealth. For example, they may have a huge house and an expensive car, but also a crushing mortgage that consumes most of their above-average income. So you look at the house and the car and get the impression they ... (read more)