What do you use as an alarm clock?

[wanderings]

Smartphone, radio clock, or the old-fashioned kind with bells on top? Or are such things unnecessary in your house with children running about?

I usually use my iPhone, on the other side of the room. (As a child, I remember being scared of alarm clocks, especially traditional wind-up ones - the menacing ticking, the numbers glowing in the dark, and of course the alarm itself.)

My fit bit but im usually woken by dh's phone first

A radio alarm with radio 4 on one side.
A lumie sunrise wake up alarm on the other.

DAB clockradio.

I have a Lumie which makes waking up bearable, but I don't use the alarm on it. I use an old Nokia mobile for an alarm. I don't take my phone to bed with me, too distracting.

Land-line cordless phone. It's basically what it's for these days.

Sleep cycle on my phone plus a cheap sunshine alarm clock. I sleep very heavily!

A child or the radio, I don't like other sounds to wake me up.

My cat is useless as an alarm clock. If he finds me asleep then he just curls up under the duvet next to me and carries on sleeping

I'm also paranoid about one failing so always set two. So Always my phone in case of power cuts, then either my actual (electric) alarm clock or Alexa.

My 2 year old. Before that, his sister. Apart from when catching an early flight I haven't set one for 6 years

Alexa playing R4 gently 😄

Three big dogs, two of which like to give a friendly "Woof!" to let me know it's time to start the day, only they're often thirty minutes early

Dh has a phone alarm that goes off at the last possible minute I can still get ready and go to work, but generally I wake up an hour beforehand anyway. The odd occasion I've slept until this it's left me disorientated and groggy all day.

Two things. My mobile phone (a 15 yr old Nokia, which makes an annoying noise if I set the alarm just before I go to sleep). Plus, as back-up, a radio alarm clock. I have teenagers, who need waking up at 5.50. Though I'm normally awake anyway, unfortunately.

Lots of variety! My cat would wake me at 3am if he had his way - he's banished downstairs at night because of this.

@Ginfordinner Why couldn't you say phone instead of iPhone? Because if I'd said "phone", people would have thought I meant a phone with a dial. Like Adrian Mole, I like to mention brand names: not a Walkman, a Sony Walkman; not an orange, an Outspan orange, and like other posters have said, not a sunrise clock, but a Lumie.

Phone, kindle, clock radio all set at slightly different times. I usually start coming to before the first one rings then I get up and turn the others off.

Next week I'm changing my work pattern so I only need to set my alarms for 2 mornings instead of 5. So excited.

I use the alarm on my phone.

I say to myself I want to wake up at X and I do.

I mean realistically DD 20 months but we have the radio turn on. DH has set it to radio 4, it's so fucking boring it gets me moving to get away from it.

OK Wanderings
A Samsung Galaxy phone in my case

We both naturally wake up early but my husband always sets an alarm on his phone on business days.

oragamiunicorn's method usually works too, but I don't like to risk it.

We use a bedside digital alarm clock. It's about 10 years old now but there's no point in fixing what ain't broke.

If we took our smart phones to bed we wouldn't get any sleep.

Phone, Apple Watch, sometimes google home. I also sleep with the curtains open so the sunrise helps.

The vibrate on my Fitbit so I don't wake the world at 5.30. My iPhone is set for 5 minutes later in case I sleep through it / I've forgotten to charge it!