I have actually never heard the term, but I would suppose it to be along the same lines as wasting valuable time and effort. Is this what you mean?

If so, I waste losts of time trying to multitask and I get distracted. The multitasking, once meant to be efficient, becomes very inefficient and distracting.

I sleep 16 hours a day and waste the rest on the internet and t.v. and radio…. So I’m frittering my life almost totally… But I’m getting help so it won’t last long.

Internetting.

Fluther, actually.

I would answer, but then I’d be frittering my time away.

Drinking, I suppose.

I’ve done a pretty damn good job of frittering my life away so far, so yes, it’s certainly possible; but I haven’t given up hope, I still have a few good miles left on me and I could get my shit together any time, any day now; it’s not entirely, completely outside the realm of possibility, really, I could, I swear I could. I’m sure of it! All is not lost! I can pull this plane out of it’s seemingly irreversible tailspin anytime I want to. I’m sure of that! Don’t you think? I could, couldn’t I? I mean, really, couldn’t I? Or do you think it’s just too late for me?

@lillycoyote

I wish that I could give you a
hundred lurve on that one.

@lillycoyote stop your frittering questions and just do it! LOL! It’s NEVER too late! :)

Does it really matter? If you go through life doing minimal damage to others, enriching the lives of some, and have some pleasure along the way, do you need more?

I think asking the maximum number of questions allowed each day on a website that is actually meant to try and help people is frittering your life away.

How does one waste something of no value?

I always seem to be aiming towards something, I have been like that all of my life. So no, I don’t think I have frittered away my life. But….....when I have a day where I seem to accomplish nothing, do nothing creative or productive, then I feel as if I have frittered away that day. I like to be able to see some tangible results at the end of the day. I am not sure if that is a good thing, sometimes I would like to be able to just kick back and do nothing without guilt. But then I think, I am no spring chicken, I have a limited number of days left and who knows what comes after I leave this life so I reckon I damned better pack as much fun and living into each day while I can!

One man’s fritter is another man’s beignet.

Love what @anartist says!

I don’t self flaggelate over anything.

I do what I do, and it is what it is.

If anything I have learned to just enjoy the moment without any protocol.

I believe in the mantra of ’ we are human beings, not human doings’.
Our world is so obsessed with doing and productivity.

@ratboy that is so sad. Maybe what you see as wasting decreases its value for you.

Lurve at ya, @cprevite. I like to fritter apples away.

@laureth: Ha – I’m glad someone got the reference. And so long as the fritter is warm.

Oooh..Fritatas!

Probably, picking random questions out of a bowl for example. May be considered so, I dunno.

@anartist—thanks, but it wasn’t me I had in mind.

I don’t know if you can fritter away your life. People chose to do what they do, I believe, mostly because it is the best thing they can do at the time. Sure, you can say we should delay gratification and then we can make more money or accomplish something greater, but those things are all speculative, and this is right now, and I am on fluther, watching the game, and I am happy to be doing this.

I guess some people beat themselves up for doing things because they believe they should be doing something else. I guess if you like beating yourself up, that’s the best way you can spend your time. No, it’s the other way around, if you are beating yourself up, then that must make you happy. Otherwise you wouldn’t spend so much time doing it.

the time you enjoy wasted isn’t wasted time

@KhiaKarma and @MissA If I could give you both a million lurve for being online ports in the occasional storm and for having the good hearts to see past my occasional pompousness and my occasional just plain, old fashioned kookiness to always wish me the best, I would. Thanks.