‘What’s the most pointless thing you’ve spent hours doing only to realise it was completely useless?’ – 21 epic wastes of time

12.

‘Gaming. I used to treat it like it was a full time job. Trying to get achievements and shit. Then I realised I had all maxed out skills in games but not in real life so I replaced it with coding. I still game but nowhere near as much.’
–SolidAgentPayne47

13.

‘Watching productivity videos for three hours instead of doing the thing.’
–OkParamedic147

14.

‘Arguing with my parents. Literally about anything. Answer: No.’
–Practical-Thought420

15.

‘Hand-pulling invasive mint from the yard. I didn’t want to kill my native plants, but after many weekends spent hunched over in the garden pulling new sprouts I ended up smothering the whole thing with the heavy-duty plastic weed barrier.’
–TicketNo23

16.

‘Sorting my kid’s Lego by colour. He has thousands of pieces. My thinking was if they were better organised (vs being mixed in one big bin) he’d be more willing to play with them because pieces would be easier to find. He rarely plays with them and when he does, all 12 or so bins are strewn around and pieces are haphazardly thrown back into any bin when done.’
–jdiers17

17.

‘Grinding to level up in a video game. If the game requires grinding and effort and I am not enjoying it, then I don’t know why I would play that game. Especially if all that effort is to just level up some character who no one will ever see or know about.’
–ArboristTreeClimber

18.

‘Spent an hour making a workout plan, then celebrated by not working out.’
–Ok_Article_3863

19.

‘Applying for tech jobs in 2025, even with more than a decade of experience. Weeeeeeee.’
–Mythasaurus

20.

‘Spent three hours cleaning my email inbox, only to get 20 new emails the next hour.’
–Pastelhearty

21.

‘Got some creative spark and thought I could write a story or novel or something. Starting working on an outline for a few hours before realising I was writing down the plot to Blade Runner. Threw that shit across the room and went back to video games.’
–PolishHammer6

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