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defoneedanamechange · 2024-10-13T19:30:07+00:00

For context: I'm 36, mum of three (youngest is 2.5), work four days a week. Im also someone who needs a lot of sleep. So... introductions over. I'm in bed for 8/8.30 and asleep 8.30-9 every night. I then get up at 5.30/6 with my toddler. Aibu to ask your age and when you go to sleep?

bridesmaid1024 · 15/10/2024 00:18

35 - mother of 2; 13 & 3 year old
Placement days - 3 days
Uni days - 1.5

In bed at 8pm
Asleep at midnight (usually)
Awake at 7:00am

wavingfuriously · 14/10/2024 23:53

WrylyAmused · 14/10/2024 23:26

All you people who go to bed so early - how on earth do you get to sleep then?!? What is your secret?

Early 40s, night owl plus insomnia.
In bed between 12:30-1:30, (usually) sleep between 1-2, wake multiple times, then properly wake from 6:30-7:30.
It is enough sleep though.

similar here only worse...🤷‍♀️

wavingfuriously · 14/10/2024 23:52

65 go to bed 1am, sleep for bout an hour then awake for 2. fall asleep again at 4 or 5, get up 10.30am. totally 🤯 🤪🤷‍♀️

SmallChanges3 · 14/10/2024 23:36

Mum of one (5 year old).

I go to sleep around midnight and wake up for 6am. I work full time (teacher).

I don't mind getting up early, but I could definitely do with an extra hour of sleep. I'm trying to go to bed at 11pm at the latest but there's always so much to do...

Rainbow1612 · 14/10/2024 23:33

35, 2 kids (9 and 2)
Bed usually between midnight and 1am.

mamajong · 14/10/2024 23:32

44 and usually between midnight and 1am

oldmanandtheangel · 14/10/2024 23:28

53, usually 3 - 4 am , but my working day usually starts late (on average at 330pm) It's a stressful job and can take me hours to unwind once home..

WrylyAmused · 14/10/2024 23:26

All you people who go to bed so early - how on earth do you get to sleep then?!? What is your secret?

Early 40s, night owl plus insomnia.
In bed between 12:30-1:30, (usually) sleep between 1-2, wake multiple times, then properly wake from 6:30-7:30.
It is enough sleep though.

Rosesandstars · 14/10/2024 23:26

36, no kids, 2am.

Jaehee · 14/10/2024 23:21

Wimbledonmum1985 · 14/10/2024 22:48

I agree. I genuinely had no idea that so many people lead such limited lives. To each their own and all that but doesn’t exactly sound like fun.

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Me neither. It's (genuinely) interesting to me how some posters' response to that was about how dull TV is, like that's the only option for an evening recreational activity. Earlier in the evening I was doing some work on my mapping course, I'm now about to do bit of language practice, then it's Tai Chi, cat cuddles and bed to read my book

RampantIvy · 14/10/2024 22:48

Do the really early to bed posters go to bed at 8 in the summer as well?

I know this won't be answered until tomorrow 😀

Wimbledonmum1985 · 14/10/2024 22:48

Jaehee · 14/10/2024 22:13

Lots of people querying "missing out on life". That's totally baffling to me.

Totally baffling? Really? I like to have a few hours in the evenings to do things I enjoy, such as read a book, play the piano, go to a class, practise the language I'm learning, watch a film, play with my cat, catch up with friends, whatever. If all I did for five days a week was work, eat and sleep I'd feel really unhappy and start to wonder what the point of my life was!

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I agree. I genuinely had no idea that so many people lead such limited lives. To each their own and all that but doesn’t exactly sound like fun.

PosiePetal · 14/10/2024 22:24

53, sometimes as early as 8pm if there’s nothing on TV. I read until about 10.30pm usually.

DanceMumTaxi · 14/10/2024 22:24

43 kids are 12 & 9. Usually about half 10, then read until 11ish. Alarm goes off at 6am. I’d like to be in bed by earlier, but just too busy with work, house jobs and running kids about. Sometimes don’t have tea until 8 or 9pm. How on earth do people manage to get to bed at 8:30pm. I struggle to even get the kids in bed by then.

CallYourselfAChef · 14/10/2024 22:20

I'm 65, retired. I go to bed at about 11, although it takes roughly 45 minutes to get to sleep. I get up for a wee twice in the night, then get up 6.30 - 7 every day.

outforawalkbiatch · 14/10/2024 22:18

Jaehee · 14/10/2024 22:13

Lots of people querying "missing out on life". That's totally baffling to me.

Totally baffling? Really? I like to have a few hours in the evenings to do things I enjoy, such as read a book, play the piano, go to a class, practise the language I'm learning, watch a film, play with my cat, catch up with friends, whatever. If all I did for five days a week was work, eat and sleep I'd feel really unhappy and start to wonder what the point of my life was!

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Yeah I don't finish work until 6pm, so it would be eat tea, shower, wash up and bed
Then it feels like I just work and sleep!

Jaehee · 14/10/2024 22:13

Lots of people querying "missing out on life". That's totally baffling to me.

Totally baffling? Really? I like to have a few hours in the evenings to do things I enjoy, such as read a book, play the piano, go to a class, practise the language I'm learning, watch a film, play with my cat, catch up with friends, whatever. If all I did for five days a week was work, eat and sleep I'd feel really unhappy and start to wonder what the point of my life was!

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defoneedanamechange · 14/10/2024 21:45

Ah delighted to hear so many of you are fellow early bedders!

One night a week (tonight!) I don't get home until 9 from an exercise class but I'm literally immediately in bed. But it feels very late to me.

I have zero interest in watching tv for the sake of it. Bed at 8.30 and asleep by 9 is perfect for me.

Lots of people querying "missing out on life". That's totally baffling to me.

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Darby3785 · 14/10/2024 21:39

I'm 39 and I go to bed between 10pm and 11:30pm

Depends what shift I've been on at work. I've had the day off today, and I've decided I'm going up at 10pm tonight 😁

JudgeJ · 14/10/2024 21:38

76, when I feel like it but then will maybe read for an hour or more. I wonder if anyone else dies what I did when still teaching, I would get home really tired and then at around 10pm would click 'awake' and then work well into the early morning, even until 3am.

Verbena87 · 14/10/2024 21:35

37 - usually fall half asleep putting LO to bed about 8, then asleep in my own bed by 10. Up at 5:30 work days and 6ish on home days.

FiveShelties · 14/10/2024 21:34

68 usually around midnight. Sleep really badly and often awake for a couple of hours overnight.

Menopausalmutha · 14/10/2024 21:30

54, between 11-12 and up between 6.30 and 7am. I don’t particularly like sleeping and am ok as long as I have more than 6 hours.

Sparxdislike · 14/10/2024 21:27

40, in bed about 9:30om then read for an hour ish then sleep until around 6am.

abracadabra1980 · 14/10/2024 21:24

StopStartStop · 14/10/2024 11:46

66... whenever I like. Really. If I feel tired in the morning or afternoon, I go to bed. 'Bedtime' could be any time from 5pm to 11pm. I have sleep issues and the current 'treatment' is 'get all the sleep you can, the times will correct themselves eventually'. It's a slow process but seems to be working.

I'm 100% with you on this and do exactly the same. It's easier when you are older and not tied to family commitments though. And I bloody love it! Podcasts are also a favourite of mine and actually help my insomnia.