Bringing home the Bacon

early mornin' bacon experience

A $2 savings on bacon taught me more about wealth than most finance books.

Tuesday morning, I was unpacking my Walmart grocery delivery.

Bacon.

The microwave-ready kind.

$7.98 delivered to my door.

At Publix? Same bacon is $10.

They pay premium rent. 

Premium operating costs. 

Premium prices.

But here's what stopped me mid-unpack:

The driver who brought my groceries earns maybe $10-15/hr with tips.

No leverage. Paid by the hour. Trading time for money.

Meanwhile, that delivery saved me 30-60 minutes.

(If I walk into a store, we all know what happens—I buy more stuff, wander the aisles, lose track of time.)

I value my time at $200/hour.

So I took that saved time and wrote this post.

Building my brand. Creating leverage. Reaching you.

The driver and I both spent an hour.

But the return on that hour? Completely different.

This is how I think about wealth now:

Technology gives us back time.

The question is—what do you do with it?

Most people take the savings and scroll.

Watch another episode.

Sleep in a little longer.

But the ones who get ahead?

They reinvest that time into value-added work.

Writing. Learning. Building. Connecting.

My mom never understood this.

She spent hours doing things that didn't compound.

No leverage. No long-term thinking.

I refused to repeat that pattern.

So next time you save 30 minutes with an app, a delivery, a shortcut—

Ask yourself: Am I reinvesting this? Or just consuming it?

That's the difference between saving money and building wealth.

What's one way you've reinvested saved time lately?

Tiffany Kent

Your Friendly Wealth Engagement Guide

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