fritter away

verb

To squander or waste.
“Keep frittering money and resources away on such media for as long as you live or want.”
“What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the time away with his monstrosities, while he himself started on the business from an engineer's point of view.”
To decrease in an incremental way without hindrance.
““There is little need,” said the monk, with a meaning look, “to fritter away the time in gewgaws.””
“I had been frittering away my money, too, on luxuries; and luxuries are effeminate.”