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• n  a recklessly extravagant consumer

• Benjamin Franklin, no squanderer of time, would be impressed by the schedules kept by today's children.
• Husband Vernati, convinced his wife is now a "megalomaniac squanderer," was afraid she would not bring back enough to pay any rent.

• prodigal
• profligate

News & Articles

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• Pope says spendthrift bishop can stay in post but puts him on leave
  VATICAN CITY, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Pope Francis will keep a German bishop accused of being a money squanderer but send him on a several-months sabbatical, the German newspaper Bild reported.
  Oct. 23, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Terence Blacker in Telegraph.co.uk
  Yet, as Blacker writes, "distorting the past and the present for the sake of a joke, he chose to portray himself as a reckless decadent, a corrupter of innocence, a moral bankrupt, a chancer, a squanderer of money, privilege and luck."