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What time do you get up when you are off work?

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whatisforteamum · 21/08/2020 11:24

On your days off do you have a lie in?I ask this question as I am in my 50s and as a child my parents always woke me up by 8.Teenage years I did try to lie in.
Fast forward to now I go to bed at the same time wake the same time as I do long hours this helps enormously.DH get up early for his job and 10 at weekends.This week he has been off yet still has a lie in until 10!I feel like half the day is gone by the time he is dressed.
I don't understand.I'm sure not everyone is a morning person like myself.What time do you get up?

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speakout · 21/08/2020 11:28

I get up at 6.30am every morning- I do early daily yoga practice every morning.

EBearhug · 21/08/2020 11:29

I tend not to set the alarm when I'm on leave. Quite often, I wake up the same time anyway, but it means if I slept badly, I can get a bit more. Sometimes, I stay in bed reading so I might not get up, even if I'm awake - also depends what is planned for day.

Usernameno987654321 · 21/08/2020 11:29

I generally wake up at 6 to be at work for half 7 (I work in healthcare)

On my days off I tend to wake up around half 7 and I class that as a lie in.

GrolliffetheDragon · 21/08/2020 11:55

Usually whatever time DS gets up. So between 7 and 8.

I'd love to lie in until 10 on weekends.

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whatisforteamum · 21/08/2020 11:55

I normally get up between 7 or 730.I was getting up earlier before my HRT kicked in.I feel so frustrated by his late starts.

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MeredithGreysScalpel · 21/08/2020 11:58

My alarm goes off at 7 when I’m not in work and I try to get up then. I don’t always succeed.
When in work, it’s 6am.

Oysterbabe · 21/08/2020 11:58

I get up at 6 every day because children.
I don't like lying in though. It feels like a waste of a day off.

girlicorne · 21/08/2020 11:58

It depends what we are doing, we spend most weekends at Alton Towers so up at 7 to leave at 8. If we don’t have plans or we have half day plans then I just get up when I wake up which is usually around 10. DH can’t sleep in though he is always up by 7/8!!

MissCalamity · 21/08/2020 12:00

I'm normally up by 7.15am on work days, anywhere between 8.30 and 10.30 on weekends depending on kids swimming lessons etc..

This week I have been off work and apart from the 2 days we were doing something so had to be up early, I've just woke up naturally between about 9 - 10, kids are old enough to go downstairs and watch tv.

I've always needed sleep, at least it's come down from 1pm in my teenage years/clubbing phase.

vanillandhoney · 21/08/2020 12:01

I don't set an alarm - normally the dog wakes up around 8am though.

crimsonlake · 21/08/2020 12:08

I do not think you can control what time your dh can get up, as everyone is different. Can you not get on with your day without him or is it because you end up waiting for him so you can do something together.
I am usually up at 7am on a workday, normally get up by 9.30am at weekends, although I may have been awake awhile.I live by myself so I can please myself.
When my children were at home as teenagers I also used to let them lie in undisturbed. You hear of some parents who want them up, I do not undrstand that, leave them be.

vanillandhoney · 21/08/2020 12:10

@whatisforteamum

I normally get up between 7 or 730.I was getting up earlier before my HRT kicked in.I feel so frustrated by his late starts.

You haven't mentioned children or anything so presumably they're either grown up or old enough not to "need" you in the mornings.

Let him sleep in if he wants - you can go out and do your own thing.

mrbob · 21/08/2020 12:11

I often get up earlier on my days off because I want to run while there is no one around! Maybe 6am. Then I can do yoga and then feel smug for the rest of the day. On work days I just drag myself up at the last possible moment and go in

Waxonwaxoff0 · 21/08/2020 12:12

I'm an early bird so I only have a lie in if i had a late night out. I don't work on Fridays, today I was up by 7.10.

EvonneGoolagong · 21/08/2020 12:14

5.45am every single day. The kids wake me up then, regardless of when they go to bed. I haven’t set an alarm for about 5 years and on work days need to be gone at 7.30 so it isn’t too bad. The weekends are a killer though!

speakout · 21/08/2020 12:14

Use that time to reclaim your own life OP.
Join a gym, do your own thing, go shopping..
Don't wait around for him.
But don't facilitate his lazy mornings either.
Sort out your own lunch, leave him to do his own laundry.

SimonJT · 21/08/2020 12:16

6am, the puppy needs a wee and I like to exercise before my son wakes up.

hilariousnamehere · 21/08/2020 12:16

Work days I'm up by 10ish, non work days regularly still in bed at 2pm. I work till 4am regularly, too, so although people like to be virtuous about mornings, it really does depend on the person.

I'm self employed partly because of this, mornings are horrendous and I don't function well even if I go to sleep early.

Can you plan afternoon stuff with DH rather than forcing him to get up earlier? Guessing you don't want to be made to lie in, so could those mornings be your own time?

UndertheCedartree · 21/08/2020 12:16

For work I was up at 5.30am and on days off I would stay in bed til 8-9am. If day off was at the weekend could have been earlier depending on DC.

Rewis · 21/08/2020 12:19

On my days off (so weekends and annual leave) I wake up around 10 and then get up around noon.

Meruem · 21/08/2020 12:19

This "half the day is gone" phrase quite annoys me! My mum is up by 7 every day but she's ready to shut down by about 5. So if she went for a day out it would run approx 9-4. I like a lie in. If I go on a day out it runs approx 12-7. Same amount of hours. Just later in the day. What's the problem? Especially this time of year when it's still not dark by 7. Why should your way be the "right" way? Leave him be if he wants to sleep.

SerenityNowwwww · 21/08/2020 12:21

Going to the office - 7-7:30. Working from home - 8am.

I know I really should still get up early and ‘do something’ ...

nokidshere · 21/08/2020 12:22

Yabu to want someone else to keep the same hours as you if you have nothing planned. Even more so if they are usually up early for work but likes a lie in when they are off.

LBOCS2 · 21/08/2020 12:22

Between 9-10, left to my own devices. Around 8-8.30 if i have got the DC. When the world is normal, I'm up by 7 to do get the kids up and do the school run before heading into work.

I'm not a morning person. I resent every minute I'm up before I want to be. I like an evening and would happily stay up beyond midnight every night. DH is a morning person, bounds out of bed at 6ish every day and is asleep on the sofa by 9.30 each evening. I resent the idea a bit that I'm 'wasting the day' when I have plenty of day, thanks - just on a different timescale to people who are up early 🤷🏼‍♀️

Waxonwaxoff0 · 21/08/2020 12:23

@Mereum I'm an early rider but I get this. I have a family member who is a real night owl, he's arranged his working life around it as well. He sleeps until about 1pm but then he's awake until 2/3am. Works for him.

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