168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

by Laura Vanderkam

So he finally settled on a mom who’d recently left her day job and was working as a personal chef. He pays her $60 per week plus the cost of groceries, and she makes him enough food for 12-15 basic meals, counting leftovers. (In general, personal chefs either cook in a client’s home or in rented space in commercial kitchens where they cook in bulk for multiple clients). In theory, this is $60 added to Savara’s budget, but in reality it isn’t. His credit card bills have gone down. It turns out that not only is Savara’s personal chef more efficient about buying groceries, “A great side effect is that I spend a lot less money on random things,” Savara says—such as doughnuts that he didn’t come in for, but which look oh-so-tempting in an end-cap display. All told, he saves about 10 hours per week, time he’s used to practice the guitar and write more for his Web site.

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