Tropes about the different ways of being wasteful.
- Anti-Wastage Features: The player is prevented from wasting items.
- Frivolous Summoning: Wasting someone's time by calling them for something you probably could have done yourself.
- Gambling Ruins Lives: Gambling is portrayed as being a waste of money.
- Hates Wasting Food: When characters get angry, usually at others, over food being wasted.
- Lamenting Wasted Potential: A character complains about how another wasted their potential.
- Lost Food Grievance: When food wastage results in someone becoming enraged over it.
- Money Dumb: A character is wasteful with money.
- Money to Burn: Destroying money rather than spending it.
- Ms. Red Ink: A woman who is wasteful with money.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The authors create an interesting character but don't do anything with them.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The authors set up an interesting plot situation but never resolve it.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: The characters order or prepare food because the scene takes place in a restaurant or over dinner, but no food actually gets eaten.
- Too Awesome to Use: Not using something because it might be wasting it.
- Trees into Toothpicks: Something made out of wood is manufactured in an incredibly wasteful way.
- Underused Game Mechanic: Game developers set up an interesting game-mechanic but it is underused.
- Villainous Glutton: Overgorging used as a sign of an evil character.
- Wasteful Wishing: A character wastes a magic wish on something stupid.
- We Have Reserves: A villain has no problem wasting their minions' lives because they can be replaced.
- What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: A character laments a dead person for being a wasteful death.
- Wicked Wastefulness: Wastefulness is treated as sign of poor moral character.
- Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: Teenagers use their time for partying, making out, taking drugs and doing random dumb stuff rather than for working and studying.