‘An hour less in bed’

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

Lighthearted... although it does make me scream a little bit

Every year, my mother reminds me that the clocks are going forward and complains about getting ‘an hour less in bed’. (She also gets excited about the ‘extra hour’ in autumn.)

Now, I could understand this if she worked Sundays and had to be up at a certain time. But she doesn’t. She never has. And as she’s nearly 70, she never will. If she wants an extra hour in bed, she can have one - or two, or three, or sleep all day! No one is going to say, ‘It’s 9am - you MUST get up’.

Why is she worried about ‘losing’ an hour in bed once a year when she could have that hour in bed every week?!

Just empathise. Then forget it. I have an elderly mother who moans about everything. Goes over my head

At 4.30pm on Saturday we reset all the clocks in the house so that the kids would go to bed an hour earlier and we’d not miss that extra hour. Did it without them noticing or they’d never have gone. We all felt great this morning!

People saying just go to bed an hour earlier so you get the same amount of sleep. It's not that easy? I'm not suddenly tired an hour earlier just because it's the last Saturday in March, neither are my kids, my husband or even my cat. The only time we didn't struggle at all was last year because it was lockdown and we were homeschooling / WFH and flexible with our starting time.

I am not a morning person - I can have a good solid 10 hours or bad night sleep of a few hours - mornings are just not for me! I envy those just jump out of bed people :( the clocks changing forward always makes an already grumpy me into a more grumpy me.
We are all night owls in this family so tomorrow morning will be painful!

The daftest thing i heard on this subject was a gardener saying how the plants appreciated the extra hour of daylight.

I'm 68, very nearly your mother's age. I'm retired. I have no schedule that I must keep, but I, too, am thrown off when the time changes. And although I certainly could stay in bed that extra hour, my body does not know that. And the older you get, the harder it becomes to adjust to little changes. I get it. I don't complain about it, but I get it. And the reason that I don't complain about it is that someone, possibly on Mumsnet, would be laughing at me for complaining.

Now DS is a nocturnal 18 year old and I only work Mon-Fri it makes literally no difference. I can grab that hour back whenever I like and so I shall. How decadent 😂

I honestly never notice. But then I sometimes get up at different times. Can go to bed anywhere between 9pm and 1am. I never get the big deal about it. I can maybe understand if you have a cast iron routine but in which case how do those people cope with maybe a party/event?

And the older you get, the harder it becomes to adjust to little changes*
Untrue! Some people ‘have difficulty adjusting to small changes’ and ate generally a pain with it.
Age has nothing fi do with it - just a handy excuse to hang anything on.

@Blacktothepink

It’s great if you work a nigh shift 🤣

This! I was working nights on Saturday to Sunday and it was pure delight watching the clock go from 00.00am to 2.00am 😁

I don't get all the fuss some are making about losing just one hour's sleep.

Don't we all sometimes have to get up an hour early for, say, an appointment, meeting someone, being somewhere, having to travel unexpectedly, seeing to an unwell DC etc.

What's the difference ? None.

I'm knackered. Always. So always resentful about that hour that I lose. Until I get it back in the wine yet and I'll tell everyone how glad I was to have suffered that extra bit of sleep deprivation 😂😂😂

@30scrisis

I'm knackered. Always. So always resentful about that hour that I lose. Until I get it back in the wine yet and I'll tell everyone how glad I was to have suffered that extra bit of sleep deprivation 😂😂😂

Winter!!

@butterpuffed

I don't get all the fuss some are making about losing just one hour's sleep.

Don't we all sometimes have to get up an hour early for, say, an appointment, meeting someone, being somewhere, having to travel unexpectedly, seeing to an unwell DC etc.

What's the difference ? None.

what's the difference?

I don't have a choice. for about a week I have to get up at what feels like silly-o'clock unfil my body has adjusted.

This! I was working nights on Saturday to Sunday and it was pure delight watching the clock go from 00.00am to 2.00am 😁 so you lost 2 hours???

My DM used to complain about being tired whrn her alarm went off at 7.45 (she was not working, and Ddad was retired)
I just laughed and asked why she set the alarm for that time, and she started laughing as well because she didnt really have a reason!😂

@Funkyslippers 🤣🤣 see this is what people are complaining about it obviously affected by counting skills. Meant to type clock changed from 01:00 to 02:00. In my defence I was working nights 😂

I arranged for my toddler to have a sleepover with my parents on Saturday night... no sleep lost 😂

Mishmased

LolaNova why would you have any less sleep anyway?

I don't get all the fuss some are making about losing just one hour's sleep.Don't we all sometimes have to get up an hour early for, say, an appointment, meeting someone, being somewhere, having to travel unexpectedly, seeing to an unwell DC etc.
What's the difference ? None.
My body is always physically wrecked after the change. I don't know why but it is (and you're talking to someone who gets up at 4 a few mornings a week). I can't explain it

My youngest is 7 and this is the first year we’ve sailed through the clock change. I can easily imagine I’ll still be mentally scarred when I’m 70 😂