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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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Subeccoo · 21/08/2020 12:24

6 on a work day, anywhere between that and half 7 on a day off.
I can't sleep later than that and don't like to waste the day.
I do go to bed by 10 though, at the latest, so see what pp said about doing stuff different times of day.

Pelleas · 21/08/2020 12:26

On average, between 8 and 8:30.

I have a rule that 9:30 is the limit, to avoid the feeling that the morning is almost over by the time I am up and dressed.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 21/08/2020 12:29

It's a bit crappy of you to begrudge his lie ins just because you can't lie in yourself.

TantricTwist · 21/08/2020 12:34

I'm terrible I always lie in on my days off and turn all alarms off so I might sleep in till 1pm or be up at 6.30 I just leave it up to my body to decide and no-one in my house is allowed to wake me up before I'm ready (although they always try)

QuestionableMouse · 21/08/2020 12:34

Between 9-10 but it tends to be after midnight when I go to bed

YesINameChangeEveryDay · 21/08/2020 12:37

We're up by 7 (latest 7.30) each day as we have a 4yo and a dog.

Do something just for you during that time op. What do you like to do? Read, yoga, listen to music, cook, walk?

Abouttimemum · 21/08/2020 12:40

Given the option I would lie in bed until 10am on weekends. I don’t have the option at the moment but I live in hope that one day I will!
I’d still go to bed early too. But lazing in bed is the best!

madcatladyforever · 21/08/2020 12:44

I get up at 6am for work and always wake up early so I'm up seizing the day early, around 7ish.
Also the cat thinks I've had enough sleep by 6.30 and starts stuffing her paw in my mouth. She's always done it.
In deep winter I have a lie in until 8 or 9 am.

copernicium · 21/08/2020 13:00

I always plan to have a lie in then the dicks in my street always wake me up at 6:10 the same as every other bloody day

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whatisforteamum · 21/08/2020 13:12

Fair comments.At the moment it doesn't so much impact on me as we are in isolation.Or when I'm working which is most weekends.It only impacts on me when I see him one day a month which is precious time or if we are o holiday.I just find it draining tiptoeing around until late that is all.

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OooErrThor · 21/08/2020 13:18

I'm a lark and DH is a night owl. I'm up by 6 most mornings, 6.30 is a lie in for me.

We have teenagers who can stay in bed until midday, DH can lie in until 10!

I go for a run, do a yoga routine, clean, catch up on crap tv - used to bother me, I love being up on my own and it's usually the best time of the day.

vanillandhoney · 21/08/2020 13:34

@whatisforteamum

Fair comments.At the moment it doesn't so much impact on me as we are in isolation.Or when I'm working which is most weekends.It only impacts on me when I see him one day a month which is precious time or if we are o holiday.I just find it draining tiptoeing around until late that is all.
Why do you have to tiptoe around?

If he wants to lie in, that's fine, but I would just carry on doing whatever you want. It's not like he's sleeping because he works nights or similar - just get on with what needs doing.

crimsonlake · 21/08/2020 13:46

I am now confused ...you talk of working and yet say you are isolating, surely you must have seen quite a lot of him considering that?
You simply do not have to wait for him to get up so you can start your day, nor tiptoe around.

riotlady · 21/08/2020 13:52

@Meruem

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.
Agreed! I enjoy the same number of hours, I just prefer more of them to be in the evening.

I get up at 8 every day as that’s when DD usually wakes up but would happily lie in til 10 if I could!

Diverseduvet · 21/08/2020 13:58

Some days I don't get up at all. This is how I like spending my free time.

Stackys · 21/08/2020 14:01

6am. I consider 7am a massive lie in but never make it to that time as once I’m awake I have to get up. I get bored just lying there like a warmed up corpse.

RandomTree · 21/08/2020 14:01

I'm an early riser and I'm usually up around 6.30 whether I'm working or not. DH likes a lie-in - on a non working day he could easily be in bed until 9 or 10. It doesn't bother me at all.

YouJustDoYou · 21/08/2020 14:01

About 6.30am

newyearnoeu · 21/08/2020 14:04

I agree with meruem and riotlady about the "half the day being gone" phrase being annoying. I find it weird when early birds go to sleep at nine or earlier like little children when adults programming on tv/theatre shows haven't even begun, nightclubs haven't even opened and evening dinner reservations are ongoing! But i understand that people are different and there's no right or wrong. Yet early birds seem to feel they have some moral justification on their side.

I wouldn't expect a partner to "tip toe" around me if I were sleeping though....I mean id prefer them to avoid putting the Hoover on or something very loud and passive aggressive but normal cleaning, tv, chatting etc would be fine.

Coldemort · 21/08/2020 14:05

Live on my own so that helps, but rarely up before noon. If I wake up earlier I usually just get a cuppa and go back to bed for a read.

FizzyPink · 21/08/2020 14:06

I would love to sleep in until 10 but unfortunately DPs 6am alarm 6 days a week is ingrained in my brain and I still wake up at that time on a Sunday. I’m also one of those people that is awake as soon as they wake up do zero chance of me falling back to sleep.

I will however have a mid afternoon nap if we’re at home which feels like such a luxury on a Sunday

applepineapple · 21/08/2020 14:08

Get up at 8 to feed the cats. Sometime I'll exercise, other days just flop back in bed Grin

ZolaGrey · 21/08/2020 14:08

Whenever I wake up. Sometimes 7, sometimes 10.

Why does it matter when he gets up on his time off?

inchoccyheaven · 21/08/2020 14:09

On a weekend we don't set an alarm if we don't have plans and will wake anytime from 10ish and then laze about chatting, scrolling phones or watching tv until we decide we want to get lunch.

We don't often sleep before 1.30 or so.

BackforGood · 21/08/2020 14:10

This "half the day is gone" phrase quite annoys me!

Me too.
If I go to bed at about half past midnight, how can "half the day" have gone if get up by 10.30 ? Confused

If I have planned to be somewhere, then I'd set my alarm, but the beauty of being on holiday is that I don't follow my watch. I get up when I wake up (or often quite a bit later as I might faff about on my phone for a while first), then I eat when I feel hungry, and go out or stay in as I feel like. That's what makes holidays different from the normal working week, when we are all dictated to by the clock.

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