What is your favorite thing to do that you acknowledge is a complete waste of time?

[Throd]

About once a week I'll burn an hour on ebay Motors looking at old cars that I have absolutely no intention of buying.

[marym625]

1. message boards on the Internet

[NobodyHere]

61. +1 for me

And I'm being serious.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The same as maryam!

[LiberalElite]

3. Browsing Google Play nt

[seveneyes]

4. Solving for the physics we live within

And we are still a few generations away from getting out of here with our minds.

That which is in your head is really all there is to live for.

[RebelOne]

5. Playing video poker. n/t

[applegrove]

6. I used to go into pet world to see all the critters.

[murielm99]

35. Petfinder!

I would go there. I have all the pets I need. I don't know why I used to waste so much time there.

[applegrove]

54. I've bought three cats from pets stores. Only one of them was planned.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. watching the Red Sox on mlb.com most nights!

[UTUSN]

8. Post #1 said it all. 14 yrs down the drain. Coulda written a few books. Times getting short for that

[femmocrat]

9. Watching TV.

It is definitely a wasteland.

[station001]

44. I had gotten pretty good at breaking this one...

...and then I got Netflix....

[MicaelS]

10. Looking at homes and cars on the 'net I will never be able to afford...

Unless I win the Lottery.

[shenmue]

11. Video golf

It does diddly squat for my skills in real golf.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. This.

[vanlassie]

13. Two Dots game on phone. DO.NOT. START.

You have been warned.

[cyberswede]

17. Seconded!

I'm on level 226, and I *really* want to get to the end before they add more levels. Only THEN can I stop.

[vanlassie]

20. I'm on 249. Stuck again. Way back I was stuck in a level

for days, (which eventually turned into a couple of weeks) and I complained to my son, who had showed me the game to start with. He replied that I was not being ZEN enough to play. Later I believe he told me he was stuck in a level for 4 weeks.

[kwassa]

14. Arguing on this website called Democratic Underground.

No practical function to it.

[steve2470]

18. you nailed it

Only gets your blood pressure up, to no avail.

[hifiguy]

21. . . .

[Liberal_in_LA]

64. lol

[IDemo]

15. Sudoku n/t

[hibbing]

16. video games

I enjoy it though, and the games these days are pretty hardcore.

Peace

[3catwoman3]

19. Cell phone...

..solitaire.

[Worried senior]

22. Free cell.

[Stardust]

50. Me too! I play it throughout the day and constantly while I watch politics on tv. At least I'm

multitasking...or multiwasting.

[Worried senior]

52. Glad to hear it

We're probably playing right now, I know I am.

[Stardust]

59. Yup!

My % of wins is 94%. I used to be more tenacious but now I'll usually give up after three tries or if the game just seems impossible to win.

Happy playing!

[chknltl]

23. Video Games.

If I were to add up the time....I'm thinking at least a year of my life, maybe even years. In my defense, I was a pot grower, my lack of economic success in this career and the need for security meant lots and lots of time spent at home. I still play video games, enjoy the hell out of them but due to a recent economic turnaround I get out a bit more.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

24. I'm a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.

But on the plus side, that means that my summer starts 2nd week of April.

[frogmarch]

25. I make tiny things out of things

for my mini fairy garden dioramas. Here are pictures of the tea set and snack bowls & trays I made yesterday out of acorns and pinecone petals. I got the idea from the web. The saucers and trays are covered with moss to hold the cups and bowls upright. The white stuff under the moss in the first picture is glue. It dried clear and doesn’t show now. Making silly crafts like these is a complete waste of time. Knowing that is depressing, and I’m trying to quit. I really am.

[avebury]

29. Those are really cute! nt

[frogmarch]

30. Thanks. :-) My eyes are still squinty,

but I had to keep going till they were done.

[gvstn]

37. They are cute! I like them.

If you can't quite give it up, here a few more ideas for being creative with tiny things...








http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3066179/Artist-turns-fruit-vegetables-giant-backdrops-tiny-figurines-getting-bored-diet.html

[frogmarch]

40. Oh, no! Now you've done it!

I love them!

I'm never going to stop making teensy things. I know it now.

Thanks! :-D

[SMC22307]

41. I was going to say the dailymail.co.uk...

and look, there it is! I can blow a couple of hours without batting an eye. Major waste of time!

[gvstn]

42. Tell me about it!

I should be in bed but I have seven more "tabs" to read before I can rest.

[femmocrat]

47. I think those are darling! Not a waste of time if they bring you joy.

Someday I will make a fairy garden with my granddaughter. She is too young now, but just getting interested in doll houses.

I saw the cutest fairy gardens at a plant sale last week. Your little cups would be perfect!

What do you do with your fairy gardens?

[frogmarch]

48. Thank you! They do.

One is in the living room (pictures) and the other is on top of a china cabinet in the dining room. I’m always adding things to them. I can’t help it. (My daughter's friend made the house for her to give me one year on my birthday.)

[femmocrat]

51. Thanks for the pictures!

So sweet!

[HipChick]

26. Internet...period

[PassingFair]

31. Yaassss! I call it my...

"research".

Born a compulsive reader, the internet made me an addict.

I am an addict.

[steve2470]

45. +1 nt

[antiquie]

27. Reply 1 plus kenken

[lame54]

28. DU Lounge

[WinkyDink]

32. Read on the Internet. :-)

[Initech]

33. Angry Birds

[catbyte]

34. Surfing the Internet. I burn a colossal amount of time on it.

But I retired in February, so I'm entitled, lol.

[mainer]

36. Watching reruns of Big Bang Theory

Even though I've seen them countless times.

[olddots]

38. yelling at the "news"

and now the news is about the news .

[sir pball]

39. Drink till I can't feel feelings anymore?

Then again I am a chef so it's usually with coworkers and even productive sometimes, I've found drunkenly scribbled notes stuck to my board in the kitchen that I have no recollection at all of writing but turned out to be some of my best ideas ever!

[AgingAmerican]

43. Sparking up a little herb

Absolute waste of time, no doubt.

[LeftinOH]

46. Going on "vacation" via Google street view..

often to places I will never visit.

[Bucky]

49. Ever since my campus blocked all tetris websites

http://www.de-animator.com/ It's been Bum Lee's De-Animator for me!!

[hunter]

53. 90% of everything humans do is crap.

It's an elaboration upon Sturgeon's Law. Nearly all jobs are crap. Our "consumer society" blows chunks. What we call "economic productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we do to the earth's natural environment and our human spirit.

The world would be a much better place if people spent more time taking care of children and frail old people, telling stories, listening to stories, reading and writing books, teaching what we know, learning what we don't, tending organic gardens, having good safe consensual sex (but not too many children!) or simply walking about, maybe hand in hand talking and enjoying this fine earth.

The things that tend to be called "a waste of time" are usually much less wasteful than the destructive activities we call "work."

[lovemydog]

56. I love that there's a citation for it.

I've felt this way for a while too!

[Skittles]

55. arguing with conservative fuckwits

[rurallib]

57. turn on a jesus station on the radio and make nasty comments

to the crazy Jesus guy talking while driving down the road.
Damn they own a lot of stations around here.

[Jamaal510]

58. Pokemon, watching the same YouTube vids repeatedly, and commenting on discussion forums. nt

[cbayer]

60. DU - nothing else even comes close.

[shenmue]

62. Video golf

I'm actually getting worse.

[My Good Babushka]

63. looking at real estate

on Realtor.com. I'm not moving, my house is paid off, but I like to browse the fabulous homes.

[Liberal_in_LA]

65. youtube

[roody]

66. Watching Big Bang Theory

[TexasBushwhacker]

68. BBT makes me laugh no mattet how many times

I watch it. I'm like a kid that can watch ET over and over.

[annabanana]

67. Sims Freeplay. . .. . n/t

[Enrique]

69. getting up in the morning

[Special Prosciuto]

70. Voting.