If you don't reach for your phone the moment you wake up, what do you do?

[FloordrobeIsGoingToGetME]

I have to have at least an hour between waking up and getting out of bed for the day.

I can't remember a time when I had to wake up and get up straight away or in a short space of time.

I'm never late because I set my alarm super early to build in lolling and phone time.

I'm on my phone the whole time. Checking social media, a bit of YouTube, a bit of Mumsnet.

Nothing enriching or valuable.

If you do some thing other than doom scroll when you wake up, what is it, and how can I develop it?

Help needed please!!

My phone stays in the kitchen charging overnight. I still have a proper alarm clock, so get up when that goes off, go for a wee, brush my teeth and shower. If it’s a WFH day I’ll put my contacts in and comb my hair then go down and make tea and get breakfast before I log on. I might do a little catching up then, but my main phone time is after dinner. If I’m in the office I don’t have time for phone stuff before work as I’m not good at getting up!

Make a coffee and read my book

All those that don’t take their phones to bed. Recently a friends house was broken into. The intruders were down stairs looking for keys at 2.30am. Friends phone was downstairs. They heard them in the house but couldn’t text family or call the police.

Taking your phone to bed is a basic form of protection.

@doyoulikemyyams

Good question! No, it isn't a health reason - I've always liked to have a long time between waking and getting up for the day.

Even when I was at school (40 years ago!) I'd wake up earlier than I needed to get ready.

Maybe it's time for a change.

@FloordrobeIsGoingToGetME maybe!

Might be fun to play with either sleeping in later, or getting straight out of bed to see what you can fit into that extra hour that would feel nourishing, rather than having that as a baseline expectation that you'll stay in bed for an hour...

Rage that it is once again morning.

Stomp downstairs, let dog out / feed dog / cuddle dog.

Make packed lunch for DS. Get DS breakfast.

Stomp upstairs, wake up DS.

Get back in bed, stay there until the last possible second before I have to get ready for work.

I'm not really a morning person.

My phone is my alarm clock, but the alarm goes straight off and I go for a wee before getting in the shower.
At the weekend I get up and put the kettle on after my wee!

Alarm goes off at 6.30, I get up and let the dogs out for a wee then go back to bed with a cuppa for DH and I until 7am when I get up. Weekends are the same, the dogs ignore the memo about a lie in and are often whimpering/barking by 7am as if to say get the fuck up!

Well I use my phone as an alarm, which I swipe a ridiculous amount of times in order to snooze and pretend I don't have to deal with life yet.
Once I do get up, it's go make coffee if it's my turn or sit up a drink the coffee if DH made it. Usually there is a little person to deal with so the phone very rarely gets looked at or scrolled on, especially mid week.

Pay attention to the 7 month old that's just woken me up 🤣

I cuddle the dog first.
I get up, pee for me, pee for the dog, I grab my phone to put some music on, shower, coffee and then I write my journal whilst drinking coffee. Then I feed the dog and we go for a long walk in the park.

I leave my glasses down stairs, so I can't do any reading, until I'm booted and spurred! I started doing it about a year ago, as I'm a terrible procrastinator, and I'd spend too much time on line and not getting on with my day! With my glasses downstairs I physically have to get out of bed, dressed and get my arse downstairs!

I first hug my toddler when we wake up, we co- sleep at the moment, it’s my favourite time of the day. Then I read a bit if I have time or just sip my coffee in silence, or in the garden weather permitting. You can build up “quiet” time incrementally,

That is genius!

This was my first thought too! If I had an extra hour in bed I'd sleep!

I wake up every day between 4.30 and 5. Have tried to change that but doesn’t matter what I do I wake up at that time.

I would love to have my phone on charge else where. But I have tinnitus. So to fall asleep or if I wake up in the night I need something on to mask the sound of the ringing. So I listen to an audiobook while falling asleep.

I check my phone when I get up. I go to the loo. Take my iron spatone. And sit back in bed. Normally checking my phone. I think if it wasn’t next to the bed I wouldn’t do that. But I also have elderly parents and grandparents and have been called many times in the night to help get them up when they have fallen. So no choice but to have my phone by the bed. Wish I didn’t.

I don't take the phone into my bedroom. First thing I do is shower.

I used to do this but I've broken the habit. I either try and get hold of dh or lie and think about my day and try to find positives in it, or else if it's warm I get up and have a cup of tea outside in the garden and just watch the sun coming up and listen to the birds and that.

I used to get up and go straight for a 5k walk. Or in The summer, garden. I stopped 5 years ago and started drinking tea and doom scrolling instead. It may be a coincidence but I put on 2.5 stone and my blood pressure rocketed. I’m back to getting out of bed and exercising.

My phone is downstairs in the kitchen overnight. When I wake up I get out of bed and start my day! I'm not one to linger in bed, although I used to as a teen / young adult.

I do scroll but am trying to get up more quickly but it is a challenge. So I generally put r4 on my phone (it's usually on anyway as I have awful insomnia so invariably been listening at night), quick scroll then downstairs to let me the dog out and feed her whilst making a coffee, dog cuddles with coffee then feed cats and upstairs to get showered/dressed.

I get up, make a cuppa, I do go on my phone but it’s to study (I do online courses) then I meditate for 10 minutes before my day begins.

Surely it's the phone that needs to be left downstairs ?

I snooze my phone alarm at least twice before the dog gets antsy about going out, I nip for a pee, let the dog out then feed him, let cats out, put the kettle on, empty the dishwasher and put any washing in the drier. Make brew and breakfast and then go sit with them in bed whilst procrastinating on my phone like you and fully waking up for half an hour before then getting ready for work.

So I do doom scroll on my phone but not until I’ve done other things first.

I do always reach for my phone first thing and spend 10-15 minutes on it doing first of all something basic like Wordle and then maybe MN, or read a book on my Kindle app, or look at my Instagram, which is entirely wholesome and uplifting as I only follow gardeners, botanists and a couple of accounts which post pictures of capybaras. No doom scrolling.
I sleep quite deeply and even with a snooze on my alarm, the idea of waking up and jumping out of bed without time for my brain to adjust to being awake is horrible. It’s one of the things I really don’t miss about having small children!
Reading actual books in bed is nice but no good if you have someone next to you who wants to go to sleep before you do or you are awake in the middle of the night worrying but can’t put the light on to read. So the Kindle app is very handy, whatever the experts say about phones ideally shouldn’t be in bedrooms.