How to Stop Hitting the Snooze Bar Every Morning

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15 жыл бұрын

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Snooze bar addiction is no joke. Learn how to wean yourself off this destructive, ugly habit.
Step 1: Let the sun shine
Open your bedroom curtains when you turn in; the morning light will make it easier for you to wake up by telling your brain it’s time to get going.
Step 2: Buy an alarm
Buy the loudest, most shrill alarm clock you can find. If you have a clock radio, set it on maximum volume to a station you detest.
Step 3: Move your alarm clock
Let’s face facts: as long as your alarm clock is within arm’s reach, you’re never going to be able to resist it, so move it somewhere that necessitates getting out of bed. See? You’re up!
Tip
Get a rascally clock with wheels that will scamper off your nightstand when the alarm goes off and hide in your room. You’ll scramble to silence the beast.
Step 4: Turn on the TV
As you’re dashing to turn off the damn alarm, snap on the TV. When you see all those perky newscasters who have been up for hours, you’ll realize you’re not going to die if you don’t go back to bed.
Step 5: Try rational thought
When the alarm goes off, remind yourself that those 10-minute increments of shut-eye may feel good now, but sleep research shows that they make you feel more tired in the long run.
Step 6: Set your coffeemaker
Invest in a coffeemaker or espresso machine that can be timed to finish brewing just as your alarm clock goes off. Keep it in your room so the aroma entices you out of bed.
Tip
Another option: set the coffeemaker to begin brewing one minute after your alarm will go off-but don’t leave the pot beneath the basket. That way you’ll have to get up to avoid a soggy mess.
Step 7: Have treats
Still having trouble? Allow yourself really decadent breakfast treats-chocolate chip muffins, buttery croissants, sticky cinnamon rolls-that make you look forward to getting out of bed.
Step 8: Lose the snooze
If all else fails, get an alarm clock without a snooze button-knowing you, you’ll be too lazy to reset it for a lousy nine minutes of extra sleep.
Did You Know?
The average person hits the snooze button three times before getting up.

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@MicahHills 10 жыл бұрын

My problems is - I have a loud alarm, other side of the room, I stop hitting snooze now, but as soon as I turn it off I just kinda automatically get back into bed and fall asleep - its got to the point where I don't even remember turning off my alarm :(

@jasminer2458 10 жыл бұрын

Same for me! I sprint to my alarm, shut it off, and launch back into my bed 😂

@Mirrorz_ 6 жыл бұрын

Same and I can't figure out how to break the habit.

@TheImancs 11 жыл бұрын

Its dark when I wake up (6am )

@MrShortDictionary 12 жыл бұрын

"the morning light will help get you up" What light?

@hardworker424 15 жыл бұрын

The alarm clock across the room with max volume music has been my trick for years.

@nadavge 15 жыл бұрын

Loved it

@htotheizz0 10 жыл бұрын

waketraining is a pretty good solution. Worked for me!

@silentArtist00 14 жыл бұрын

sometimes im still asleep while the alarm is beeping

@sushh1 15 жыл бұрын

LOL just what i needed.

@HURLEY7130 15 жыл бұрын

this is a great vid with a lot of nice ideas... i dont have a snooze button though :)

@Anne_Elizabeth 15 жыл бұрын

Haha good tips - I probably won't be able to do it though - I love snoozing.

@GhostsOfThings 13 жыл бұрын

i just set my alarm earlier so i can press it 3 times. it makes no sense but it works.

@FunkyBanaaanaaa 15 жыл бұрын

lol yeah i noticed that too when she ssaid "damn alarm clock" or something lol i wass like WOAHHH HOWCAST SWEARING?

@Myster36 15 жыл бұрын

The TV idea is actually pretty clever

@totalembarrasment 15 жыл бұрын

ive had my alarm clock go off at 7:45am and stay like that untill 12pm when i was still in bed

@MonkeyBoy2194 15 жыл бұрын

There's a few problems for this plan for me. I have a small wimdow that is diagonal (needs velux blinds) but I don't have one yet so I am used to the brightness and my room is small so there isn't much light in it. I tried putting the alarm far away but I somehow manage to ignore it and if I do get up I fall asleep whilst making my bed.

@falsesleep 15 жыл бұрын

i just have my alarm clock on the other side of my room.. works everytime.

@bubbles02010 14 жыл бұрын

I love it when the coffee's ready!!! @ . @

@paperxclips 15 жыл бұрын

I do that too!

@rasmuskjaerpoulsen 15 жыл бұрын

same with me !. i walk through all my room almost falling over my stuff on the ground. turn clock off and go to bed again. without really knowing it. so wierd

@Ethernet3 14 жыл бұрын

0.32 yeh... another day of boredom at school. so it can keep sleeping lol

@pincam 15 жыл бұрын

1:14 lol, i always feel like i'm going to die if i don't go back to bed after killing the alarm!

@StrictlyAwesome 15 жыл бұрын

yep. its an acual alarm clock to. pretty sweet

@ethandugo5920 10 жыл бұрын

when your dashing to turn of the dm alarm

@ownagedawggy 15 жыл бұрын

Same.

@fuss101 14 жыл бұрын

Having a loud annoying alarm just makes me rush to turn it off then fall back asleep. It doesnt matter if the sound is loud or annoying, it doesnt make me any more awake.

@kdmq 15 жыл бұрын

I had to wake up early this morning for a piano lesson and yes, i hit the snooze button lol

@Benchpress33 13 жыл бұрын

@11dogsrule11 i got the same thing but my problem is mine changes every morning cause its set to radio so i cant get used to it when i do get up

@jayinojales 15 жыл бұрын

Thos are good tips. I really have a bad habit of hitting the snooze button to the point that I just sleep in and not go to school : (

@hardleecure 15 жыл бұрын

What I used to do is have an alarm clock that has 2 alarms on it. I set the first one for 30 minutes before I want to get out of bed and the 2nd alarm for when I have to be out of bed. I set it on the opposite side of my room. When the first goes off, I shut it off. I go back to bed, 30 minutes later the 2nd goes off not giving me enough time to fall back asleep and my day starts.

@starrish 15 жыл бұрын

i didnot even know the snooze button existed and it's on my alarm clock too...wow i never have hit a snooze button in my whole entire life till now hehe

@Bopkasen 15 жыл бұрын

What I find is that if you keep changing alarm time, it would mess you up. Keeping your routine in order make a good decent wake-up time. You be up before the alarm goes off. It a bizarre phemonon.

@jasonz777z 13 жыл бұрын

...I've never seen an alarm clock with a snooze button on top to slap, lol! It's either on the back or not at all...

@cappew22 15 жыл бұрын

Bet none of these things work for me, i do things in my sleep without knowing i've done them. Once, i canceled my alarm on my phone (had to go into menu's and sub-menus to do that), and when a friend called and asked why i'm not at school, i said "can't make it in today, see you tommorrow." o.O A tip that actually works, get an iPod (Classic), set alarm, connect it to your speakerset and wake up to your favorite song, loudly!

@gbmack2000 15 жыл бұрын

I don't hit the snooze button... I'm so used to going for the on/off button lol.

@SketchSamo 13 жыл бұрын

every time i wake up i go "Blur-Ha-Huh-Bluggg"

@zulonz 15 жыл бұрын

thats the same coffee maker I have! When I move the alarm clock somewhere else, I just get up and turn it off then go back to bed...

@tes_slamjam 15 жыл бұрын

My older brother unconsciously turns off his alarm clock, too, and he has to walk a really long way to get to it. It's weird.

@h0110wPeTaL 12 жыл бұрын

I used to wake up at 5 or 6, get up from my bunk to reset it for it to go off 15 minutes later to any time between 730 and 9. I really am dedicated to the pretense of waking up and then going back to sleep

@98thardus 12 жыл бұрын

Why not use a subwoofer?

@Devikvampire 13 жыл бұрын

She said damn! Woah.

@bridawsel 14 жыл бұрын

I'm a very light sleeper. I keep my door locked when I sleep too. So even a slight knock on the door will wake me up. But I LOVE to sleep. I just sleep at the wrong times. x3

@WolfeBane84 12 жыл бұрын

My old roommate used to do something like this, but he would never turn off the fucking alarm clock...it would go hours on end...eventually we had to beat the shit out of the wall every day to get him to shut it off. It was the most horrible sounding alarm in existence. Picture an old truck from say the early 70's, now picture the leaf spring suspension in the back, now picture 40 years of road wear, now picture jumping up and down in the bed of the truck so the springs screech, now x10.

@jehenisus 14 жыл бұрын

tried the extra loud alarm clock across my room. I sprang out of my bed without actually waking up and fell and sprained my ankle!

@mimirent94 15 жыл бұрын

haha. damn alarm clock.

@tabbykittens26 11 жыл бұрын

If u have a bunk bed sleep on the top and shove the clock on your desk underneath

@rebellatina14 11 жыл бұрын

I use my cellphone as my alarm, but because its a touchscreen and I'm clumsy when I wake up, I can't press the snooze button. So what have I come up with instead? I take out the battery out of my cellphone if I can't find the snooze button. xD

@StrictlyAwesome 15 жыл бұрын

i want to buy the one alarm clock that acually cooks you bacon lol.

@XxTheinfectionxXx 14 жыл бұрын

@Eriil but it does get them up lol

@Frozenyak 13 жыл бұрын

How to get up in the morning. AW ALRITE! You will need: ...... determin--DAMMIT!

@missbrunette5161 15 жыл бұрын

me tooo!!!

@HappytimeTom 15 жыл бұрын

i am so determined to get extra sleep i can reset the time so it's 10 mins later... But well i don't have to go to work, so a day off school isn't the worst thing that ever happened.

@evilmangoeater 13 жыл бұрын

Forget a snooze button. I just sleep through the alarm.

@wuteverluv 15 жыл бұрын

I hit the snooze button like 10 times every morning XD but I set it like an dhour earlier because I know that by the time I get tired of pressing the snooze button, I'd wake up just in time :)

@musicfreakkarin 15 жыл бұрын

i actually wake up when i hear my fav station and i never hit the snooze button i turn it off lol

@MegF142857 15 жыл бұрын

I have made a batch computer file that executes KZfaq music videos in morning like alarm. Can include nice music or roosters and fog horns. Unfortunately I can sleep through most anything some days - light, noise, radio going off loud. Even slept through roofers over my bedroom before - bam bam bam. Best thing is having a critter needing you to get up for them or they ask you to get up! Meow! Meow!

@surinathecool 12 жыл бұрын

It's Fall now, there's no more morning light to help me get up.

@nukeboy14 14 жыл бұрын

lol i hit snooze on my ipod 3 times before waking up, they are correct!

@Diaaakhana 15 жыл бұрын

my moms my alarm!! now where;s that snooze button?

@colty123 15 жыл бұрын

Same,

@Darknessfailure 15 жыл бұрын

i hit it like 3-5 times eventually, I set it earlier .. dunno if am deception my self but whatever its me and my alarm ;)

@missbrunette5161 15 жыл бұрын

yeah right...

@ThemLizards 15 жыл бұрын

What helps me get up, is eating a peice of food, or taking a drink immidiately after you wake up. It really helps you wake up, because you have to actually chew and or swallow. it slowly wakes you up so you dont feel to tired the rest of the day. and you wont have to hit the snooze button...

@deepart15 15 жыл бұрын

i set my alarm clock 20 mins before i get up so than wane it gos off i get up. ( i use my cell phone as a alarm clock btw)

@forsurenoob 15 жыл бұрын

if its my cellphone i remove my battery and if its an alarm which is out of my reach, i wait till it shuts up :)

@freshmantheoriginal 15 жыл бұрын

lol same

@Videomaster5555 13 жыл бұрын

lol i would just turn off the alarm then or unplug it

@dddienst 15 жыл бұрын

Thats the same alarm clock as mine... maybe thats the problem...

@broadcastogod 13 жыл бұрын

My alarm clock doesn't have a snooze button, and every two seconds it turns the volume level up +1

@MakUltra12 13 жыл бұрын

Yes, because when I see perky news casters in the morning, the FIRST thing that comes to my mind is that I won't die if I don't go back to sleep. (Nope, I kinda just want to punch them for being so perky so early.) :)

@jnuisctkin21 13 жыл бұрын

i put my alarm clck aross my room then hen it goes off i get up shut it off then climb back into bed i wake up like a half an hour later having no time to get ready'

@blastmaster720 12 жыл бұрын

i dont think this will help me when i have the habbit of shutting it off instead of the snooze button?!?!?!

@h0110wPeTaL 12 жыл бұрын

oh, I dont leave it on I just get up every 15 min just to turn it off and reset it. and its just static

@15septembergirl 15 жыл бұрын

I purposefully set my alarm clock almost 30 minutes before its time for me to wake up because I hit snooze so much

@Vannybanny09 15 жыл бұрын

i hit it three times or more im going to try this tonight! lol

@millymonz 12 жыл бұрын

step 1:dont have a alarm clock. did you know that you are lazy as hell if you dont get up

@theClintdog 13 жыл бұрын

@Frozenyak I agree.

@dingdongditch1000 14 жыл бұрын

I wake up at 5:30 a.m. EVERY morning because I'm not someone who likes to sleep, I like to be up and knowing what goes on in this world!!!

@DragonKnight451 15 жыл бұрын

i used to do that...one day my brother put spikes of a plastic fork on it....never hit the button again

@SimplyBecauseItsMe 14 жыл бұрын

yeh i kinda knew that i snooze the alarm at least 3 times so i set it to go off 10 mins earlier, that way i still get what feels like "those extra mins in bed" but i still get up when i need to. :) ....... but this doesnt always work :(

@HIGSOFX 14 жыл бұрын

I never hit the snooze button. So I have 5 alarms. :D

@AnnikaL 15 жыл бұрын

only three times? I set my alarm about an hour earlier than I really want/should go up and snooze from there. :P

@acornhead50 14 жыл бұрын

step 3 actually works! its so evil that the alarm clock forces to make you get out of bed just to shut it off.(i forgot inconvenience can make you jump out of bed)

@Becksnnc 15 жыл бұрын

I use my mobile alarm lol.

@ZakFrost 15 жыл бұрын

I never hit snooze. Why would you set an alarm and then not get up? That doesn't make sense.

@BogzoneFodyBractal 15 жыл бұрын

The problem with me is that I just turn the alarm off instead of hitting the snooze button...

@artistictalent 15 жыл бұрын

hahaha i so do hit it three times!!!

@TheShineySmiley 13 жыл бұрын

my alarm is set to 6 A.M so i hit the snooze botton up until 7:10 (each"snooze is 59 seconds)

@11dogsrule11 13 жыл бұрын

I put it on my dresser, across my room. It rang. I got up, turned it off, and went back to sleep =.=

@EnjoyVideos99 15 жыл бұрын

i dont hit that button and i don't have an alarm clock

@faeriedustgrl 15 жыл бұрын

pshh..i just sleep right through the alarm.

@melonand_melons 15 жыл бұрын

always shut down the alarm clock,then go back to bed

@frozenchipmunk4 15 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough I have the ability to tune out a loud alarm clock after a while then fall back asleep :-p. My phone has 2 alarms then I have the radio alarm. I learn how to hit snooze with my eyes closed and tune out the radio.

@seabury 15 жыл бұрын

Dude, if I had no snooze button, I'd fall back asleep and wake up about ten hours later.

@spinhook888 15 жыл бұрын

My snooze button allows me to snooze for a grand total of five minutes. It's more frustrating than just getting out of bed.

@yoyoman49235 15 жыл бұрын

i wouldnt share that with too many people...

@ragingsquism 15 жыл бұрын

lol i hit the snooz button like 5 times every morning but i also set it an hour early

@BinkieMcFartnuggets 15 жыл бұрын

I hook the button up to a small generator that shocks me with 2,000 volts. The smell is enough to wake the entire hotel.

@takerfan26 13 жыл бұрын

The light thing u will just put your blanket over your head and when u get up u just go back down. Coffee maker thing its just a fail. Get an old alarm clock with the bells. put it under your bed it will sound like a bomb u will run out of your room xD

@whitetigerpals 13 жыл бұрын

I always set my alarm like 30 minutes before i wake up so that i can hit the snooze thing at least three times before convincing myself that I'm not gonna die if I don't wake up