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 mobile is always downstairs buried in my bag somewhere. My husband doesn't take his upstairs either.
All electronics including TVs are banned from bedrooms in my house.
We manage the same as we did before mobiles were invented. 🙂

My mum still has her 70s goblin teasmaid hissing and spitting away on her bedside cabinet to wake her on a morning. 😀

BuildBuildings we still have a landline. Quite a few people still do.

Apple Watch or my phone as back up (which I keep on charge next to my bed )

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If my DH banned me from having my phone upstairs, I’d laugh at him

No phones in the bedroom here @BeepBeeeep, if I use my phone as an alarm I leave it in the living room so I don’t just hit snooze for half an hour.

Cat came in meowing at 5 this morning. I suspected this meant he’d brought prey in. I confirmed this when I stood on a mouse. That really woke me up and everyone else in the house. Excellent alarm.

I dream of a teas maid BeepBeeep.

Nothing. After 9 years of intensive training by dc1 my body clock always wakes me between 6&7. I don't think we've used an alarm since before he was born, except for the occasional early start for a flight when we would use a clock radio.

No phones in bedrooms here either.

Not sure I get the phone in bedroom angst, we are grown ups and presumably can self regulate 😂 (unlike my 13 year old).

I charge my phone in my bedroom, it’s on ‘do not disturb’ which means no calls or other notifications apart from the few family members I have set it to allow through in that mode.

I sleep on the second storey without a hard wired phone point, in an emergency I would need my phone as the clever hands free ones wouldn’t work without a power supply.

I used to have something like this but with an alarm clock in my twenties. I remember buying it from John Lewis on Oxford St. I thought it was the height of sophistication.

Alexa

@Dogsarebetterthancatsok
It was me who did the banning. Fortunately my old man feels the same about electronics in the bedroom as I do. 😁

@LifeOfBox
It's not angst, more of a no need. To be fair, we rarely even look at our phones when we're at home.
When mine rings, by the time I've found my bag and rooted it out, the caller has usually rung off 😂
Anyway, back on topic.
On the rare occasions I need to be woken, he usually wakes me, after his alarm clock has woken him. Hah.

An old travel digital alarm clock but often the sky as thin curtains. Or the dc who regularly wake me all hours

Love my Lumie. It works as a regular alarm clock in summer, but in winter it's so nice to be woken up with gradual light.

@LifeOfBox My first thought is that it looks like a motorbike crash helmet!

How have people recommending Lumies found them at time keeping?

I've had 3 over the years and the first two ran fast, probably gaining at least a minute a week, so quite noticeable over time, and not necessarily a bad thing as it would make me get a move on when getting dressed, but then I had a third (the first two broke after maybe 10 years each) that lost at least a minute or two a week, so I'd be getting dressed, thinking I had loads of time, only to find I was running quite late when I went downstairs.

I took that one back to the shop, who refunded without question, even though I'd had it a few months.

I then bought a cheap ebay one for less than a tenner, but I don't like it because it is complicated to set the time, unreliable and starts turning the light on too early.

I've not set an alarm clock for months, being from the bladder and hungry cats school of alarm clocks, but now it's getting to winter , I'm thinking about getting a new one, but I'm loathe to pay £££s for Lumie if they don't keep time accurately as I find clocks that don't run to time irritating, but I want one that's nicer/easier to use than my current one.

A small battery alarm clock which beeps. It also has 'silent sweep' hands so no ticking. Phones are banned from your bedroom as I'm convinced they interfere with sleep. Plus, DPs beeps constantly with news alerts

From OUR bedroom I mean

I know that one is very ugly isn't it. I think mine was this one.

Very small cups and instant coffee 🤮.

Echo Spot set to radio 4 every weekday.

I use my phone.

I tried using one of the old fashioned alarm clocks with bells on top once - scared the life out of me when it went off!

@Capodimonte
I used to have one.
It actually did fly through the bedroom window. Not via my hand, but by a gust of wind which blew it off my windowsill when the window was open.
I wasn't sorry to see it smashed to pieces on the driveway 😆

My mobile, its all I've used for years, got rid of my alarm clock when I got my first brick like Nokia!

This is our alarm cocker, who goes off at around 6am every morning demanding breakfast. I have a slightly later alarm set on my phone as backup and DS has a Clocky in his room as well.