What time do you get up in the morning?

lilac_lady

The winter weather has made me lazier and sometimes I don't get up till 9.30, a very different time from the 6.30 alarm clock ring when I was working.

If you're retired, what time do you get up now? Has it changed from when you had to get up and go to work?

Merrywidow

lilac lady - the whole beauty of retirement is that you can do what you when you want. I used to get up at 6am when I was working. I am on my own now so I go to bed when I fancy, play on the computer half the night if I fancy, sleep till I wake up naturally. It is usually 9am or thereafter. Day is aired, sky is light and the world is ready for me. Enjoy

chesky369

I've recently noticed for the first time that I don't exactly leap out of bed in the mornings any more. Been retired for a couple of years and I generally wake up around 7am. I work two days a week at CAB so have to be there in good time to get a parking space, so have that regime in place. But I've always got up at more or less the same time - latest around 7.30am. But today, although a 'work' day, I didn't get out of bed until nearer 8 than 7.30. Had to rush around a bit.

Perhaps it's just the weather.

cattie

For the past few months I've really struggled to get up before 9:30 am. Often it's closer to 10 am & some days I've been known to linger untill after 11 am.

I do have to quickly rise to feed my cat when he wakes me for his breakfast, which is usually about 8.30, but then I run back to my cosy bed & stay there untill I'm ready to get up.

When I was working I normally got up about 6.30 am & had a long period after becoming too ill to work of getting up around about 8.30 am. I never, ever thought I'd be such a lazy bones as I am now, but being able to get up when I like is quite an indulgent luxury.

azureblue_2

We were doing quite well at getting up around 7.30 in lighter days, but since November it's got later and worse. Even setting the alarm again (oh no!) for 8 my arm automatically stretches and switches it off whilst I'm asleep...
The thing is, the later we sleep the grottier we feel all day, the harder it is to get going. I'm hoping as the lighter mornings kick in so will my brain again. I want to feel I'm part of the day and not some grey ghost already half dead.

Biggles

I usually get up at 7:30 during the week in order that I can be at my pooter when the stock market opens at 8:00.

However, the time I change out of my jim jams is a completely different matter! However, the (female) postie doesn't seem to mind me signing for anything in my dressing gown at all kinds of times of the morning, so I don't mind either.

Though there as been known to be a panic to be dressed in time to have lunch, as lunch in a dressing gown seems indecent somehow......

Agapanthus

I've always been a late riser by inclination. Although I did for a while have to leave the house by 6.30 for a work it always went against the grain.

I do try to be awake by 9, but like Biggles, I sometimes do a morning's work before I get dressed. The prompt to change is often DH, who wants to go to Tesco for bread for lunch. I can't really go around there in my dressing gown and if I let him go on his own I know what he'll buy - and we've already got five of it!

Retirement is great!

tanith

I've always been an early riser , now I am always awake at 6am when OH's alarm goes off , he brings me a cuppa before leaving at 6:40ish then I usually snuggle back down watching the news, listening to all my neighbours starting up or de-icing their cars :rotfl:before jumping in the shower around 7:30 or 8... if I fall back to sleep I end up with a stinking headache for the rest of the day.. in the Summer I don't lay in I just get up once OH is gone for the day

VfM4meplse

Merrywidow wrote: »

lilac lady - the whole beauty of retirement is that you can do what you when you want. I used to get up at 6am when I was working. I am on my own now so I go to bed when I fancy, play on the computer half the night if I fancy, sleep till I wake up naturally. It is usually 9am or thereafter. Day is aired, sky is light and the world is ready for me. Enjoy

Oh I am so jealous. Only another 40 years to go.

Newly_retired

These days the earliest I get up is 7.50, which is the time I used to leave the house for work, but more often it is between 8.10 and 8.25. In the summer I can more easily get up earlier as I often wake early and like to get going. I do go to bed late though- around midnight.

anniewoo

I usually get up between 7.00 and 7.30,I tend to wake up naturally around 7.00,sometimes earlier and once I am awake I have to get up,I can't lie in bed.

In the Summer when it is light very early,I sometimes get up at 5.00 if I am woken by the birds singing even though I have nothing to get up early for.I love light Summer mornings.