Does anyone still use an alarm clock?

Wyrdo · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:25

Yes, I have a DAB radio alarm clock to wake me up. Doesn't need batteries and sets the time itself which is handy for power cuts and when the clocks change

jp_bl_68 · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:26

The Halk said:
Back in the days when I had more than one alarm clock I found it was counter productive.

At one point I had 3, and because I had 3 I ignored the first two. What happens when 1 of the three of them doesn't go off? I sleep in.

These days I have just the one on my phone, and I'm much better off with one alarm.

I used to do the same thing. One alarm is plenty.

joey1211 · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:30

Sony DreamMachine. Had it for years

FNGsam · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:37

Castiel said:
That depends...some are self funding, some turn a profit.......some are money pits.

Reckon I could borrow yours for a while to have a bit of a try before you buy experience?

Cosimo · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:38

Yes, we have digital (atomic) alarms clocks. Can't be bothered to use the mobiles or the Dab radio.

Admiral Huddy · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:39

I still use a hammer above my head which is tied to a burning candle.

Morgoth · 18 Jan 2011 at 08:56

One alarm clock, one alarm, does me fine.

hawker1986 · 18 Jan 2011 at 09:19

+1 for a Sony radio alarm, the things last forever and they do the job well. I can sleep through the radio quite easily so i set it to that at the weekends when theres no big deal if im late.

Hawker

Kainz · 18 Jan 2011 at 09:20

I use a rubbish small Argos purchased digital alarm clock with a nice bl00 backlit display. Bought it back in 1995 during my uni days. It's been trusty ever since!

trickycurve · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:16

I've used a 'proper' alarm clock for as long as I can remember. I've also had the same alarm clock for about as long, so it's getting on a bit now (never fails to wake me up, though).

semi-pro waster · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:21

Any particular reason you keep forgetting to put the phone in your bedroom?

I've used my mobile phone as an alarm clock for years now, it's just handy because it's pretty much always in the same room as me and to date it seems to work fine.

apatia77 · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:25

I've been using a mobile phone for the last 10 years and it has worked just like a proper alarm clock.

misterPK · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:32

I've got an alarm clock that I've had for years now, one of the radio synched ones. It used to project the time onto the ceiling too, but most of the segments have died on that now.

I prefer it to a phone as I'm often leaving my phone in trousers or on silent or the battery dies.

PK!

pauLAW · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:37

I use my phone as my first alarm and my alarm clock as my emergency backup alarm

agnes · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:41

I use my phone, does the job... Most of the time.

Scuzi · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:48

I use a Sonic Bomb alarm clock, much to the dismay of everyone within about a 2 mile radius. It's the only thing that wakes me up. For those who don't know, it's an alarm clock designed for deaf people.

Castiel · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:48

I'm surprised how many people use their phones, my wife aside, we still use alarm clocks.

sigma · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:48

wizzard said:
i point my laptop at http://www.nakedalarmclock.com/ disable all power saving options and turn the volume up to 11. anything less and i aint in work.

I deliberately had to get one that was loud, so mine has 'Loud' and 'Soft' settings, but it's nowhere near as annoying as 'Bugle Reveille' would be on that site! That would have me going nuts in the morning.

My phone is usually switched off anyway.

Doonhamer · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:52

I have a proper alarm clock on my bedside cabanet but I guess I just got into a habit of using my phone. I'm hard core though, one alarm and when it goes off I get up. None of this twenty alarms business.

Gaijin · 18 Jan 2011 at 10:55

I'm going back to a radio alarm I think given as Apple can't be trusted to make a functioning alarm clock in their phones.