How many alarm clocks do you have and use?

@JenInTN (27514)
United States
April 6, 2009 4:34am CST
I have one alarm clock and usually get up after hitting snooze just once..lol..ut I was talking to some people at work and was surprised to find that most of them have at least two. They set them to go off within 5 minutes of each other to be sure they get up. There was one preson that had five...2 for him..2 for his wife and one in case neither got up..lol. So how many alarm clocks do you have?
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• China
8 Apr 09
I just have one. And I prefer to having none. Having one is enough. Willing is my most important factor to get up. Alarm clocks just tells me what time is it now, and what I should do next. So if not neccessary, I would like to get up alarmed by my biology clock.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
I would rather that too. I hate the sound of an alarm in the morning. Maybe one day I won't need one. Thanks for the response.
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@jdyrj777 (6530)
• United States
8 Apr 09
I have one alarm clock. Im lucky i have that one. My cats have knocked it down so many times. The face plate is missing and so is the snooze button. If i want to doze more i have to re set it. I have it far enough from the bed i cant just reach over and do that i have to get up to reach it. I do have 3 alarms on my phone but i tend to sleep through those.
@jdyrj777 (6530)
• United States
9 Apr 09
I figure when the beatup one stops working i will have to use my phone alarm till i buy a new one. I dont like shopping for alarm clocks. I look for the cheapest loudest electric with a snooze. Problem is you can test the sound.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
LOL..at least it still works. Sometimes the ones that are harder to deal with can wake us up better. Thanks for the response.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
10 Apr 09
I don't like shopping for them either..lol..I'd just use it until I couldn't too.
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@mishastar (734)
• United States
9 Apr 09
I just use 2. I use my cellphone alarm clock and my regular plug-in alarm clock. Just having one will never get me up on time in the morning.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
9 Apr 09
On average..everyone I knew used at least two. Sometimes we have to have a little extra to get up and moving. Thanks for responding.
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@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
8 Apr 09
I usually use the phone to install the alarm. so I only have one alarm.but with a mobile phone alarm clock can be set repeatedly.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
Hi indahfth! Mobile phones are very handy as an alarm. There are a lot of people using them for one. Thanks for respond.
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@nzalheart (2338)
• India
7 Apr 09
Haha let's give a big laugh in this question for me. You are superb that you wake up in a single snoooze hehe... You will surely get surprised when i say about me. But this is the fact. Well I use my mobile for the alarm. A single mobile can be used for multiple alarm. I set two alarms when I have important day. Other time only BUT with snooze that repeats for ten times in each five minutes. BUT, I can't wake in this too hehe...Only if I have really important task to do, I would wake up after few snooze, but not at once... I was not like this before. At first when i started using alarm, a single alarm would work for me. I started keeping the alarm beside my head while sleeping. Slowly and slowly the alarm started to become useless for me because I turned it off and couldn't realize in the morning when did I turn off. But it was sure that it had rung and I had turned off. One of my teacher had suggested about this in the class that make the habit of keeping the alarm far away from your reach so that the disturbing sound let you wake, stand up then only turn off. So I did it. Yes it worked for me few times, then after that it also become habit to me and then I started turning off the alarm waking up, but again sleeping. After it became the habit, I started feeling uncounscuious in the morning that I couldn't realize when did i woke up, turned off the alarm and slept hehe... Nowadays I use mobile phone and that's why I keep snooze for 10 times. I hear the ring in the early morning. But can't really figure out why it is ringing lol...I don't know what kind of thinkings come to me that time, mixed thinking of dream and unconsciousness that I forget that it was the alarm ringing suggesting me to wake up. Moreover I take the phone uncounsciously on my hand and start cancelling each and every ring and sometimes i let it ring with the phone in my hand, and I keep sleeping.... hehe...this is my alarm story...That is the fact and have been telling to every friends when they talk about waking up early in the morning hehe.....
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
7 Apr 09
Heavy sleepers definately need more help to get up. Getting used to a certain sound as we sleep is very possible too. It explains how people can live next to railroad tracks and such. Thanks for the story. I think there are a lot of people out there just like you when it comes to this issue. I think there are also people that are "night" people. I used to be so a long time ago but now I can get up in the morning after one snooze..lol..Thanks again and take care.
@nzalheart (2338)
• India
12 Apr 09
I specially don't like to wake up after a single sleep hehe. This makes me feel unsatisfied sleeping...So I take precaution keeping many snoozes.
@happy2009 (330)
• China
8 Apr 09
I have no alarm clock.but I never later for school and work . but ,some time ,if i have very important things to do ,I will make a alarm with my mobilephone ,but i alawys wake up before the bell rings.I think that's the effects of my biological clock .if i give a dictate that i must get up before 6 o'clock to my brain before I get to sleep ,maybe I will always think of this tings ,so I'll more tend to wake up at this time .
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
It's very good you can do that. I'm afraid I'm not so good at it..lol..I need my alarm clock to get up. Thanks for the response.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Apr 09
We just have one clock radio and the only time we use it is when we have to go on a trip and have to be up at five in the morning or some ridiculously early hour. Besides my husband when we worked was on afternoons, and I had this built in getting up at around seven so we really did not need any.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
That's good you haven't really needed one. I get up at a ridiculously early hour everyday..lol..Thanks for the response.
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@derek_a (10874)
7 Apr 09
I have an alarm clock but haven't used it for the last 25 years or so. All I need to do is to focus on what time I wish to wake up and I will do so. That's if I need to wake up earlier than I naturally would which is around 6 a.m. Anybody can do this if they really want to - they just need to focus a little while before they go to sleep on the time they want to wake up naturally. Waking up this way I am rarely tired and feel more refreshed. - Derek
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
7 Apr 09
Hi derek! Maybe I will try that sometime during the week. Of course it will have to be on a day that I don't have to be anywhere..lol..I'm not so sure my bodyclock is set so well.lol..Thanks for responding.
@cyr001 (23)
• China
6 Apr 09
i only have one alarm clock ,when it is ringing, i usually will got up .
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
6 Apr 09
Good for you cyr001. Thanks for the response.
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@Shar19 (8231)
• United States
6 Apr 09
We have one alarm clock. We set it to music but we keep it low.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
6 Apr 09
Hi Shar! You must be a very light sleeper. I have to have the horrible beeping to get me up. That is a much more pleasant alternative to get up with though. Thanks for the response.
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@deep257 (56)
• India
8 Apr 09
i do not use any special alarm clock as such. i use my mobile as my alarm. i usually set aroun 5 alarms after every 15 minutes or so. the fist two i set usually have a soft tone... but since they fail to wake me up as usual i use a very irritating tone to wake me and it does the job(lol).
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
Hi deep! It takes an annoting tone to get me up and moving too. Music or soft tones just lull me on to sleep deeper. Thanks for the response.
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@gracypure (529)
• Philippines
8 Apr 09
When i was in college until i got job i only used one alarm clock. But now that i am a mom already i don't use any alarm clock and i don't set alarm on my cellphone. but this coming month of June i will be the one to send my son to school at early morning so i guess I'll be needed again the real alarm clock.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
Hi gracypure!It's good you've had a break from an alarm clock. Good luck in June when your son goes to school. Thanks for responding.
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• China
8 Apr 09
I have one alarm clock.Now I can't without it.I am used to it since I go to senior high school.Every morning and afrernoon only hear alarm clock ring,that can make me got up. Alarm clock is very important to me.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
Me too! If I didn't have mine I don't know what I would do. I know I would never get up.lol..Thanks for reponding.
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@mira91 (985)
• Singapore
6 Apr 09
Such desperate measures just to wake up huh. Lol. I didn't know there were people needing more than just one alram clock, haha, besides isn't there like cellphones now? So the alram would be persistent in waking you up every 5 minutes? haha, for me, if i were to use an alarm clock, i'd just have one, thank you. I wake up easily if my environment is too noisy.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
6 Apr 09
It does seem desperate measures to get up but yes..they do..lol..I'd say that some use their cellphones and call it an alarm clock because I would imagine they would take up a lot of space and outlets..lol..Thanks for responding.
@idowrite72 (2213)
• United States
8 Apr 09
I have ONE alarm clock and actually get up to music and not to an alarm. I rarely hit the snooze and also rarely go back to sleep, even when I have had little sleep. When I was working, I am now retired, I would usually just wake up on my own without an alarm clock each morning that I got up for work. I amazed myself and especially on those days that I hadn't had much sleep. I know of people who have their alarms across the room, so they have to get out of the bed to turn them off or they will turn them off and go back to sleep!!
• United States
9 Apr 09
I think my sleeping habits changed a lot after I had my kids, but one time 2 of my sisters came into my apartment and left Christmas gifts for my kids with me sleeping in the next room with the door open, and I never heard a thing!! I saw the gifts the next morning when the kids brought them to show me in bed and I wondered if Santa REALLY had come, and never heard the entire story until many years later. I kinda knew who did it, but not the particulars until then!!
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
That would be me except the going back to sleep part.lol..I have had a tough time getting up before. I would never wake up to music though unless it were loud. You must be a light sleeper.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
9 Apr 09
LOL...I guess you were tired that night. Nice of your sisters...the sneaky devils. lol
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@zweeb82 (5653)
• Malaysia
7 Apr 09
I have none & I don't use any although my PDA phone has the alarm clock feature? In fact I can set 3 at one go but I never really bothered to use it? Only once in a blue moon? Haha!~
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@zweeb82 (5653)
• Malaysia
8 Apr 09
Haha!~I know what you mean by a real pain, haha!~ I'm good here but have been busy as usual. I think the days ahead will be busier days so I'm trying to get as much rest as possible & yes, sleep early as well, haha!~I'll normally wake up about the same time automatically unless I'm really exhausted
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
10 Apr 09
Glad you are doing well. Maybe things will slow down enough where you won't be so busy..I have three days off work and won't know how to act!
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
7 Apr 09
Hi zweeb! Hope you are well. I wish I didn't have to use one..lol..they are a real pain. Thanks for the response.
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@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
6 Apr 09
i use one now, but used to havw two at one time, for awhile i had this alarm clock that i hooked up a house alarm speaker to it.. not only woke me up but everyone in the house and the people next door to us. one of the kids heard it almost a block away lol
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
6 Apr 09
LOL! That was my project in electronics! To hook an alarm clock to a house speaker..lol..Needless to day the full time job and the fulltime classes were weighing on me..lol..Thanks for responding.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
8 Apr 09
LOL! in that case I have to use 10 alarm clock as there are five members at home. Forget it sanu. I have only 4 alarms at home but you talk about specifically alarm clock(that I don' t use after invention of mobile alarm), then I would say I have one table alarm clock.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
9 Apr 09
Man, did you comment all the responses you get in this discussion? THat was hell of a hardwork Cheers.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
10 Apr 09
LOL..oh yes..I always recognize the ones that respond. I enjoy the responses.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
8 Apr 09
LOL..thanks for responding. There are a lot of people that use their phines for alarm clocks now.
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• Pakistan
6 Apr 09
HI DEAR, its really intresting to told u that i have no alarm clock in my home cos my younger brother is so naughty and he didt wish and not want the anything in the home will remain right. that is why i m using my cell phone as a alarm clock . normally i wake up after 4-5 time sneezing the alarm hehehe. i hate the alarm at the morning and love it at night. it is much useful to me. thanks the maker of alarms. Happy Mylotting
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
6 Apr 09
Hi sudais! I hate the sound of an alarm in the morning too. It's very annoying but we do need them to get up. A lot of people use their cell phones for an alarm. How old is your brother? Thanks for responding.
@emilie2300 (1882)
• United States
6 Apr 09
I have one alarm clock. I am a snooze button finatic. My Husband gets so mad at me because I will set the alarm clock for a half an hour before I want to get up an hit snooze for the whole half hour. He like just get up already. LOL
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
6 Apr 09
LOL...hi emilie! He just doesn't understand..lol..that's the best sleep1 Thanks for the response.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
7 Apr 09
I'm good. You ok? Hope that cutie ferret of yours is good too.
• United States
6 Apr 09
Hi to you to! How are you ? LOL yeah it is the best sleep. but it drives him crazy.