Placing A Value on MyLot Money

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Sometimes, as I am sure many of us might do, I scratch my head at the effort and time I spend here for what seem like mere pennies. And they ARE really mere pennies. But pennies DO add up. On an average month here I make about $10. Often times it's a bit more than that. But let's just say in a given year I earn about $120 on MyLot. If I want to really appreciate the value of that, I need to place a value on my MyLot money. What is $120? It's 480 boxes of macaroni and cheese (I buy these at Aldi for 25 cents per box). It's roughly 60 pounds of pork. I generally pay about $1.99 per pound for pork. It's roughly 3 full tanks of gas. It's roughly 141 jars of pasta sauce (at 89 cents per jar at Aldi). It's roughly 250 dozen eggs (or 3,000 individual eggs at 48 cents per dozen at Aldi). It's roughly 40 pounds of lunch meat at about $3 per pound. It's roughly 48 bags of shredded cheese. It's roughly 120 bags of frozen vegetables (I generally do not ever pay more than $1 per bag). It's roughly 67 3 pound bags of yellow onions. It's roughly 413 pounds of potatoes (I generally pay about $2.99 for a 10 pound bag). I could go on, but I think you get the point. Granted this is in the United States. It does not seem like $120 can go that far. But when you start to do the breakdown, it makes you feel a little bit better about the value of the time we spend here, and what that actually adds to throughout the year. I just thought it was an interesting thing to explore and thought I would share it here. Thoughts?