Whats your time waste sink hole?

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Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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YouTube. I've got quite a few subscriptions I follow, and while I don't watch all of their videos, or probably even a majority of them, it's probably my biggest time sink. I also watch a lot of movies (Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc).
 

Capt_Kob

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Oct 3, 2013
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Reddit. It's awful how much time I spend on that site between my desktop, phone and tablet...
 

sportage

Lifer
Feb 1, 2008
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My quest for for the perfect iTunes catalog.
I mean, I spend hours upon hours organizing my 700 movies and massive music collection to reflect the proper title, description, date, category, and most of all the perfect artwork.
All movies must have the original DVD cover as the artwork resized to exactly 323x475 pixels and 170x170 for music artwork.

It can be a challenge to locate the DVD cover I need or music CD cover I want, then clean it up in photoshop, and resize to my set standards.
I guess I'm just anal about having it all perfect.
And it looks great when displayed on TV using the old AppleTV box.

But it does not stop with my iTunes collection.
All my phone and mail contacts must have a photo of the person or the business logo, and everything consistent.
That can be challenging too.
I look at it as a hobby. A hobby of perfection.
Oh, and I don't like papers laying around on a table, or holding onto wires and chargers from devices I no longer own or use.
And if I buy it, don't use it, and its too late to return it, I either give it away to toss it.

My only hoarding vice is collecting unusual clocks.
Retro, futuristic, anything different out of the ordinary.
I even have a desk clock shaped like a human heart. Can't remember where I got that from.
And if Big Ben ever goes missing, you'll know who has it. Me. ;)
Gaud I HATE daylight savings time.....

PS. My other half is a slob.
Collects junk, saves the containers from empty juice bottles, holds onto empty cardboard boxes, and has the physical paper bank statements and old utility bills going back to the early 1980's.
Now THAT is just insane.....
And if I dare complain all I get back is, "WELL, YOU HAVE ALL THOSE CLOCKS".
 
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Elite Member
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Oct 28, 1999
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I'm a bigtime junkie for X-Wing minature gaming. I spend spare time tinkering with lists to build to try different strategies/synergies or reading forums/reddit on strategies.
 

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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This place.

This place doesn't have enough new material for serious time suckage, though.

I need to switch to something like Simpsons: Tapped Out to kill time while my daughter is watching a Peppa Pig episode for the 20th time :)