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What do you use as an alarm clock?

137 replies

wanderings · 05/09/2019 18:14

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.)

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FusionChefGeoff · 05/09/2019 20:25

73 posts, 73 people who are missing out on the most wondrous, spectacular, life changing way to wake up in the morning.....

My TEASMAID!!!!

it is the ugliest yet most loved thing in the whole house. I fill and set it religiously without fail every single night.

My job occasionally involves very fancy 5 star travel and hotels but ever since I've had the teasmaid, I feel marginally pissed off that the tea making facilities are too far away from the bed in my luxury suite Grin

origamiunicorn · 05/09/2019 20:48

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

I do have a later back up alarm on working days but I'm always awake before to switch it off. 😁

Ginfordinner · 05/09/2019 20:49

I will repeat my question. Why do people with iPhones have to tell everyone else that they not only own a mobile phone, but it is an iPhone
Why not just say phone like everyone else?

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Lweji · 05/09/2019 20:52

Ginfordinner

What would be the point in paying so much more for an iPhone, then?

Countingdownthedays2019 · 05/09/2019 20:59

Alexa

Soola · 05/09/2019 21:02

@FusionChefGeoff

I remember seeing Caroline Quentin on a chat show and her being a complete bitch talking about her marriage to Paul Merton. Apparently one birthday/Christmas he has bought her a TeasMaid which did not impress her at all!

I don’t drink tea but I can see the appeal of having a TeasMaid if you do and thought poor Paul Merton was unfairly slagged off.

CherryPavlova · 05/09/2019 21:05

A mug of tea being put on my bedside cabinet.

ChocolateTea · 05/09/2019 21:06

@cherrypavlova are you my DP?! That's how I wake him up every weekday 😂

Redcrayons · 05/09/2019 21:10

My phone. I had a radio alarm clock up until a couple of years ago and when it broke I never got ready to replacing it. I don't really need it, I'm always awake before it goes off.

@Soola - I've always wanted a TeasMaid after staying in a B&B as a child and thinking it was the most sophisticated thing ever. I'd have been quite pleased with it.

sanityisamyth · 05/09/2019 21:11

iPhone and Amazon Echo

helpmeiamatoad · 05/09/2019 21:22

My iPhone

LifeOfBox · 05/09/2019 21:28

I use a pure dab radio with a snooze handle 💕. It goes off at 5:25 tuned to Vanessa Feltz. Love it as it starts quietly and gets louder. Snooze handle is deployed if music is too cheesy to cope with at 5:25.

LifeOfBox · 05/09/2019 21:30

I also go to sleep listening to an audio book streamed from my iphone 😂🤣 to said radio with snooze handle.

CherryPavlova · 05/09/2019 21:32

@ChocolateTea I think you’ve done it the wrong way round. In fairness, he sometimes wakes me earlier if he’s forgotten to put running socks out and starts fumbling around for a pair. Then I am a bit grumpy.
He knows it’s best to not speak to me until he returns from running the dog and makes our tea.

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ChocolateTea · 05/09/2019 21:43

@cherrypavlova he's a uni student and I'm a teacher, so I bring the tea as an apology for the early morning hairdryer 😂 he is not a morning person!

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CherryPavlova · 05/09/2019 22:19

@EvilPostBox Absolutely not. My husband has been doing it for around thirty years and knows exactly how to serve my Assam.

Breastfeedingworries · 05/09/2019 22:20

My 9 month old, but she slept in until nearly 10 once so I occasionally set my phone if we have plans 😂

WhenDoISleep · 05/09/2019 23:18

These days I use my phone, set on top of my chest of drawers, so I physically have to get up to stop it. I used to use a little clock on my bedside, but I seemed to be able to sleep through it too easily.

In contrast to other posters, my DC tend not to wake me up on a weekday morning, they are too busy being quiet and generally doing something they know they shouldn’t be doing downstairs (usually sneaking onto a console to play games). Conversely on a weekend morning when we don’t need to get up and I could really do with another hours sleep, they are guaranteed to wake me as early as possible.

RiftGibbon · 05/09/2019 23:20

For years I had a clock radio, until, after having surgery, I started having panic attacks (a side effect which I hadn't been advised of), triggered by the alarm.
I now have a customised ringtone on my mobile, which gently wakes me up.

AndWhatNext · 05/09/2019 23:22

Google Home as a radio alarm. Backed up by analogue alarm clock - silent arms as I would go crazy with the ticking.

My Lumie bodyclock packed in, worried about the dark months.

DD stole my DAB radio alarm clock.

Phones are kept in the kitchen overnight.

BeepBeeeep · 05/09/2019 23:29

My husband.

MazDazzle · 05/09/2019 23:30

My phone. I did have a Lumie dawn simulator, but I gave it to the kids.

BuildBuildings · 05/09/2019 23:31

People who turn their phones off overnights. What if there was an emergency and you need to dial 999 for example you'd have to wait for your phone to start up. Or what if there's a family emergency with extended family and they need to get in touch? For me there's more peace of mind keeping my mobile phone on.