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KayLR
1-16-20, 5:53pm
The e-edition newspaper thread got me wondering...

DH and I get up pretty early so that we can have our coffee-newspaper ritual before work. Sometimes people I talk with are surprised when I tell them I get up between 4:30 and 5. I suppose when I retire I'll sleep in longer.

But for right now, it's worth it to me to have that quiet time with him, and after he leaves I have a bit more time to myself before hitting the road. I consider this part of my simple life intentions.

How about you? Do you carve out time in this way? Or do you stay up late and sleep in instead?

ETA: wasn't sure where to post this really---mods may move if desired.

happystuff
1-16-20, 6:09pm
I wake up by about 5:45. I'm dressed in morning walking clothes, downstairs, have the cats fed, and the computer on by 6, which is when I take my daily med - which is why I am up before/by 6. LOL.

Gardnr
1-16-20, 6:33pm
I go to bed when tired and get up when I wake up. No more alarms since retiring. Between 5 and 730.

klunick
1-16-20, 6:35pm
During the week, I go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 2:30am for work. On weekends, I try to stay up until 10pm but am usually up and on the move by 7am.

catherine
1-16-20, 7:07pm
I go to bed when tired and get up when I wake up. No more alarms since retiring. Between 5 and 730.

I'm pretty much the same, even though I'm not retired. I work from home, and unless I have an early morning telephone interview, or have to leave for a flight, I can make my own schedule and get up when I please. I find I need 7+ hours sleep, so if I get to bed by 10, I'm up around 6-6:30. If I stay up later watching TV with DH, I get up later. If I am freaking out about a report deadline, I get up at 3:30 or 4 because I seem to be brilliant and focused between 3:30 and 8am and after that it's all downhill.

kib
1-16-20, 7:14pm
Funny, I was musing just a couple of days ago about how irritating I find the notion that there's some ethically superior time to rise. Early to bed, early to rise ... I'm betting it was a rhyme made up by farmers to get their boys out to the barn. I'm pretty much like Gardnr, although if I'm doing swing trading I'm up before the owls.

herbgeek
1-16-20, 7:24pm
I suppose when I retire I'll sleep in longer.

I'm getting up the same time I did when I worked. So many of years of doing that, and its just habit. And that time is 5 ish. Sleeping in means 5:30.

No alarms, just when hubby wakes. I wake up when he brings up my coffee. :)

rosarugosa
1-16-20, 7:47pm
We got up at 4 when I was working and now we get up at 5, which feels relatively luxurious. DH leaves for work at 9:30, but we don't like to rush. We have time now for coffee/internet, nice walk, then breakfast before he leaves. I usually leave a little after him for dog-walking and Mom visits.

Gardnr
1-16-20, 9:39pm
I suppose when I retire I'll sleep in longer.

I most certainly do. Workstress is a sleep killer. I was lucky to sleep till 4am. 5am was rare. For the first 10 weeks I was retired, I slept 9-11h/night!!!!!! Since then I generally sleep 8h with 1-2 nights a week at 9-11.

Sleep is a glorious thing! I worked full time from age 15-58 and went to school until I was 31 as well (3 degrees). I doubt I've slept like this since I was a 12yo.

Yppej
1-16-20, 9:55pm
5:05. In spring when I don't have to scrape ice off the windshield or clear snow off the car it will be 5:15 again.

razz
1-16-20, 10:15pm
I usually sleep 7 hours regardless with or without an alarm. I find that I am really relaxed and calm even sleepy by 9:30 so by 10pm, I am in bed. Most mornings I just wake up around 5am.

ApatheticNoMore
1-16-20, 11:41pm
7:30ish. I could carve out time in the morning, but I'd bargain it all away come morning for a little more sleep, I always do when I try that, yea all those good intentions sounded nice but um SLEEP. So alarm rings at 7:15 but even then it's like snooze one or twice, and then ok have to get up.

NewGig
1-16-20, 11:41pm
630 or earlier! Depends on how late I was up...

Simplemind
1-17-20, 2:06am
In bed at 11:30 and up at 7:00

Greg44
1-17-20, 8:27am
Bed by 10:00pm and up at 5:00am -- except that I am writing this at 4:25am! Out the door to work (on bicycle) at 7:00ish. I like the early hours.

klunick
1-17-20, 8:38am
Bed by 10:00pm and up at 5:00am -- except that I am writing this at 4:25am! Out the door to work (on bicycle) at 7:00ish. I like the early hours.
I agree with you. Have worked 5am-1:30pm my entire adult life and I can't imagine anything different. It hurts my soul when I am asked to come in later and stay later.

happystuff
1-17-20, 9:01am
Bed by 10:00pm and up at 5:00am -- except that I am writing this at 4:25am! Out the door to work (on bicycle) at 7:00ish. I like the early hours.

I like the early hours as well. I'm definitely a "morning" person.

SteveinMN
1-17-20, 10:27am
Morning person here, too. Been getting up at 6:30 for so long that it comes naturally now, even on weekends. I wasn't always a morning person, but I've been a morning person way longer than I was a night owl.

Sad Eyed Lady
1-17-20, 10:31am
All of you put me to shame! Since I don't have to be up to got to work anymore, (unless you count a couple or three days a month going in to help out), I usually do not rise before 8 a.m Usually around 8:30 or if it is 9ish that's okay too. Of course, I must add I have already been up around 4 a.m. to feed the cats first breakfast! Going into work, up around 7:30. Never been a morning person and envy those who are.

pinkytoe
1-17-20, 11:55am
When I worked, I got up around 6:15. Now that I'm into retirement a few years, a natural rhythm has me in bed around 11:00 and rising around 7:30. It feels decadent to get so much sleep and I generally don't schedule anything to start before 9a.

catherine
1-17-20, 12:36pm
Never been a morning person and envy those who are.

Nothing to be ashamed about! I think people definitely are cut out to be either morning or night people. I am definitely a morning person, and in fact, when the kids were small I refused to help them with homework after 9pm because I simply couldn't process information. I was never one of those college students that could pull all-nighters on a paper. I had to go to bed and get up at 3 or 4 and work.

DH is a night person/I'm a morning person. We're probably in bed together 4 hours total.

JaneV2.0
1-17-20, 12:42pm
I'm flexible. I've worked every shift possible; most often four to midnight. Now I generally rise sixish, earlier in the summer.

klunick
1-17-20, 12:59pm
Nothing to be ashamed about! I think people definitely are cut out to be either morning or night people. I am definitely a morning person, and in fact, when the kids were small I refused to help them with homework after 9pm because I simply couldn't process information. I was never one of those college students that could pull all-nighters on a paper. I had to go to bed and get up at 3 or 4 and work.

DH is a night person/I'm a morning person. We're probably in bed together 4 hours total.
When my husband and I still slept in the same bed (don't anymore because of snoring (him)), there would be times when he would be coming to bed and I'd be getting up for work.

Teacher Terry
1-17-20, 1:32pm
When I worked I got up at 6:30. Now I go to bed between 9-11 pm and get up between 6:30-8. I never make a appointment before 11.

Rogar
1-18-20, 9:36am
When I was younger I was able to adapt somewhat to various shift type work, but now I try to stick to a routine. Pretty much 9 to 5 sleep, maybe sleep in a little later in the winter and a little earlier in summer. In the latter years of work I worked long days and was not shy about taking a short power nap of 10 or 15 minutes at my desk after lunch. A tradition I've tried to maintain or extend to 15 or 20 minutes.

pcooley
2-21-20, 12:51pm
My wife and I have been waking up at 3:30 a.m. for years, ever since the kids were little. It was the only time to sit quietly and enjoy breakfast. I'm usually dead tired when the sun starts going down. Lately, we've been doing things on Wednesday night and Thursday night at our local Zen center. By Friday, I feel pretty beat up from not getting enough sleep. I feel like I become dysfunctional if I don't get around 9 hours of sleep. Growing up, I would sleep for three hours in the afternoon and six hours at night, and I think that's still what my body wants to do.

Tammy
2-21-20, 11:00pm
During vacations I naturally sleep from 10-11 pm til about 8. When I’m working it’s 8-9 pm til about 6. I feel best on 9 hours of sleep.

My colleagues who survive on 4-5 hours are alternately jealous and superior-feeling. Because our country is ridiculous in our worship of hard work and self-denial.

catherine
2-21-20, 11:09pm
During vacations I naturally sleep from 10-11 pm til about 8. When I’m working it’s 8-9 pm til about 6. I feel best on 9 hours of sleep.

My colleagues who survive on 4-5 hours are alternately jealous and superior-feeling. Because our country is ridiculous in our worship of hard work and self-denial.

I read something that said that sleep is the bridge between hope and despair. There's something about the restorative nature of sleep that is absolutely essential to our wellbeing. I never understood the idea behind forcing residents in medical school to work on very little sleep. According to my Fitbit I tend to need about 7-1/2 hours.

Teacher Terry
2-22-20, 12:28am
I have always needed a lot of sleep and never skimped on it.

Halltheway
3-14-20, 6:04pm
I get up at 5:00am on the days that I go into the office. I'm lucky in that my job allows me to telework 2 days per week. So, on my telework days, I sleep in until 6:00am or so. They say that it's best to keep your sleep routine consistent to within about 90 minutes, so I think I'm still good with that degree of variation. Sadly tho, since I have to commute across town, I pretty much just rush to do that basics of getting ready and fly out the door. My quiet time is more in the evenings. I hear lots of people say that they can get by with 6 hours or sleep, some people even less, but for me, I need 7.5 hours, or I'm just not focused and productive, and it becomes counterproductive at that point.

KayLR
3-16-20, 12:34pm
I read something that said that sleep is the bridge between hope and despair. There's something about the restorative nature of sleep that is absolutely essential to our wellbeing. I never understood the idea behind forcing residents in medical school to work on very little sleep. According to my Fitbit I tend to need about 7-1/2 hours.

I agree with you there, catherine.

Yesterday for some reason I awakened at 4:30 a.m. and couldn't seem to get back to sleep. So I got up, read the paper, said goodbye to the hubs who was going out to play golf. Then I lay down, and fell asleep for TWO hours! I felt a little ashamed of myself, but I guess I needed that.