Thursday September 9, 2004
Your Say

A university study has found people find it much easier to waste time than money. How well do you utilise your time? Are you forgiving of people who waste your time, but not your cash?

This topic is now closed - this is what you said.

i think people manage their time well
i would rather killers watch tv then go out killing, or imagine if noone watched tv or sport an just concentrated on making money like the billionaires out there, not everyone can become one lets just hope more people watch tv and waste their time so the billionaires can get richer in our inperfect world which is filled with imperfect inhabitants.


Time is money. Therefore, we truly are wasting time because the time we spend working for money gets thrown away anyways.In our society, luxuries quickly turn themselves into necessities, wants into needs, and time into money that is wasted in half the time it is spent getting earnt in.

Annonymous student from the Western suburbs

The greatest quote for time and money belongs to George Best: "I spent my money on booze, drugs and women, the rest i wasted."


back to the topic at hand, i object to those who claim that this is "another" "silly" research project coming out of a Uni.

i would challenge them to read the actual refereed article, and not some journos five-para summary before making that conclusion.

(note that the conclusion still might be right, but i tend to think that the journo would dumb the research down for the audience, if not misinterpret it completely...)


As a student i find that money is more easily wasted because everything we see we want and we jump at the opportunity to buy it to suit our choice of lifestyle. Whereas time flies past because you are trying to concentrate more on studying and getting good results, as well as trying to satisfy the need for a social life, hobbies and the part-time job most people have.

Marina T

If you're not doing anything stop the clock and save.
Ever heard of a Stop-Watch?

Tic Toc

Unfortunately I have to split and go and get dinner organised for the bois.
Thank you all for your positive comments and, as always, I am looking forward to chatting with you again tomorrow!
I hope you all have a marvelous evening! You too Ed!

ben-e-boi (at home with bay-bee-boi)

Ben-E-Boi - after learning about your meditation habits, why doesn't your having lentils for dinner surprise me?


If you're not doing anything, isn't that the same is doing nothing, which means you're using your time to do nothing, which is actually something.

Doug Rush

I can't remember who said this but here it is:

'I found I never had enough hours in the day, so I bought a watch that went up to 13'

Tony D

Forget about aids, heart disease and cancer ... good to see the university expenditure is really getting into the groundbreaking issues!

We hear the continuals cries from universities wanting greater funding, etc and we hear far too often about these trivial studies being undertaken ... all for the sake of what seems like a bit of cheap publicity.

Perhaps they should be the one's who should be wasting less time and money.

The Spice Monkey

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