If he want's to get up early...............Have him sleep outside under the stars. That way you can sleep in and not be disturbed.

When with a group, the ones who speak up first set the time. So since Dave is a 'slow' riser, I alway let everyone know that if they are going to do something before 9:30 am , count us out. All of our friends now will refer to leaving on Dave time - which is 10:00 am - and it was amazing how everyone was willing to delay a little and have a second cup of coffee while we got ourselves together.

I get up early, usually have a walk and coffee before Dave starts stirring. If I wake him up - he'll roll over and go back to sleep. Unless it is 6:00 am, I don't worry about it because he needs to start waking up anyway.

Barb

biggaRView wrote:

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TRAILERKING wrote:

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If he want's to get up early...............Have him sleep outside under the stars. That way you can sleep in and not be disturbed.

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 Ouch! That's cold.

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 Throw him an extra blanket.................

I am a early riser, wife sleeps in. We are full timers and no problem. I try to be quiet and even cook breakfast some mornings. Take a BOMB to wake dw.

Our body clocks have been all over the place for the past several years, we guess it's an age/lifestyle thing? Have tried, herbal brews, not drinking after 'x' time, switching off TV's and computers, listening to music, reading, scratch pad for things on our minds besides the bed = nothing seems to change it. Tried herbal sleep meds they didn't work either, and we won't take prescribed stuff.

Farming we used to be up before sunrise, and to bed by 10.30pmish (younger, we needed less but deeper sleep and got way more exercise). Now we are lucky if either one of us gets to sleep within hour or two hours of hitting the hay, and then up again after two hours. Come 5am, we go off real deep, and struggle to get out the bed between 8am and 9am if schedules permit. Odd nights if I am staring at the ceiling come 1.45am, I'll just get up and go back to bed around 5am to 5.30am or crash on the couch.

Have noticed when we are RVing we tend to walk or bike tons and get a lot more fresh air, tending to go to bed earlier. Doesn't stop the getting up once or twice in the night but we do sleep a lot more soundly and get up earlier typically. So do believe it's a lifestyle thing that dictates how we rise and fall.

Kev's the early riser. I'm the night owl. If we aren't moving, Kev just shuts the bedroom door when he gets up, and I go on sleeping. If we're moving, he wakes me up early. With a shower, I'm good to go. Fortunately, being sleepy doesn't tend to make me grouchy.

Barbaraok wrote:

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  Plus, I don't think I could sleep with that big Cummins purring underneath me for 100 miles.

Barb

 

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 Really that thing rumbles like a BASS drum. My wife thought she was going to lay down on the bed one day while travelling.................................She had to come up front to the couch. Hahaha

We took of the watches when we retired, haven't worn one since. We do have a 'clock' on the wall over the door in the MH to tell us what day it is. Cell phones will give us the time if we need it.

Barb

I'm an early riser and Eileen is a late sleeper. We both tend to stay up later than we want or should. I used to be a stupid early riser, but the bedroom in our MH is so dark I tend to sleep until 7 AM.  Unless we have something scheduled Eileen will get up between 8 & 9. I relish the one to two ours of alone time. I can find plenty to keep me busy. Before we retired I usually arrived to work an hour before anybody else. Most days because of the constant interruptions I would get more done in that one hour than 4 hours of the work day. 

"I thought a retirees watch just gave you what day of the week it was"

There are only 7 days in a week. 1st Saturday, 2nd Saturday, 3rd Saturday, 4th Saturday, 5th Saturday, 6th Saturday, and Pants day.

Around our place, it is Jo that is the early bird.  However, since we've retired, she has occasionally laid in bed late (as much as 1:30 am) reading.  I'm the night-owl that tends to stay up late.  While she will also usually be the first up, I still don't have much of a problem rising early, if we have something that needs to be done or somewhere to go.  I've always been able to go for pretty good periods of time with just a few hours of sleep.  (Plus, I can lie down almost anywhere and take a quick nap, if needed.)

Terry

In our coop, Ed is the early riser and I am the late sleeper.  When he is ready he gets up goes to the living room and quietly does work on the computer or watches tv till I wake up.  The only time it changes is when we have to check out early and then everyone is up.  Fortunately we have a door from the living room to the bedroom and a nice dark bedroom to sleep in.  We both tend to stay up way to late.

 

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Barbaraok wrote:

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Would someone explain what staying up way to late means? Is there someone monitoring bed time that I don't know about? We go to bed when tired, get up when we wake up and want to move around, or get up to make an appointment. But otherwise, we don't have anyone we have to answer to anymore.

Barb

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 Barb, you are AWOL from work. You remember work, right? They have their own "Work Ethic Thought Police" that are furiously attempting to recontrol your brain into being a good worker bee. That's what are clocks are for... to punch in and out, wake up time so you get to work and punch in.... they have been drumming it into your head since you were a kid...

Where's my tin foil hat????

Where this really comes into play is if you ever want to travel with others. Your friends might be great fun to play cards with, but if they are ready to travel at 6AM and you are not ready until 10AM, you will not have a good time traveling together.

Great comments!  We have had our own bedrooms, and it works well...even though my bedroom in the camper is about as big as my walk in closet, it's still mine!

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I've found that my having a tablet in bed* (and going into bed at the same time as her) helps me get to sleep earlier, yet I can play/work in bed next to her!

*technically Two tablets in bed, his and hers! (but she always conks out by 10:30 that party pooper !)

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 Yep me too...I've started going to bed earlier and getting up a bit earlier to be more in sync with Lee.  I stagger it a bit though because he really likes some time to himself first thing in the morning

Chris and I have slightly off-set sleep preferences - but we're both solidly night owls. I tend to head off to bed around midnight or 1a - closing the door behind me and watching Star Trek re-runs (grin), and him an hour or two later. If we're working on a project, he loves working until sunrise. I generally get up a bit before him, and that's my time to get my stuff done. Works out well.

Our problem is being in groups of friends and/or at campgrounds with neighbors.

Just the other morning we posted a photo of sunrise we took from bed, with the tag 'back to sleep now'. Someone in our encampment took that as us being up, and came over around 8:30am pounding on the door and woke us out of dead sleep. Ugh. Made for a grumpy day... lesson learned, no more morning social media :)

We've also had fellow campers in a campground some knocking on our door at 9 am or so, again waking us, asking for tours of our bus (?!?), or to say hi because they recognize us from online or the worst... wanting tech support. (We actually had one campground get wind that we 'work on computers' and the office sent another camper to us to clean up a virus he got on his computer, at 8am!! For the record.. we use computers in our work, not work on computers.) Ugh. And this is with our drapes pulled shut, and our 'Quiet Please' sign up on the front door.

Really aggravating being night owls, sometimes day sleepers and working on the road, to be woken out of sleep because we get our zzzzs in the morning.

And let's not even get into having early bird neighbors who like having coffee meet-ups outside our bedroom window (oh, but how dare we have dinner outside on our picnic table at 9pm.)


Yup... the early bird versus night owl thing is one of the annoying little things, especially worse in tighter packed campgrounds. And the quiet time rules almost always favor the early birds.

Our solution? We love the boonies where we can mostly do our own thing. :)

- Cherie

TRAILERKING wrote:

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The "Early to Bed..........Early to Rise" is nice because you get the most usable daylight.

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 Actually, let me finish your quote:  "Early to Bed, Early Rise, makes a Man (Woman) Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise."

Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, circa 1735

-- Edited by Jake62 on Thursday 19th of February 2015 06:01:35 PM

Cherie,

Your "Quiet please" sign is too polite. Your sign should say "Go away, we don't want to see you now" or the redneck way "Knock at your own risk, intruders will be shot" or just hang one of those hotel signs "Do NOT disturb" under your "Quiet please"...

I'm the early riser but I like my peace and quiet until I'm ready to face the world. My DH can sleep until noon (or later) and he's certainly grumpy if someone wakes him unexpectedly. I wouldn't put it past him to yell out "Get the **** away from here!" He's not nice until he's had at least two cups of coffee.

Hang on the Bus...........

NOT FOR SALE!

Having many years of shift work experience and this is JMHO... There are many "well intentioned" people out there, that fail to actually think before acting. We've all, probably, done it to one degree or another at times.  I completely sympathize with Cherie & Chris. No manner of signage, polite or vulgar, will stop the blissfully ignoramus (and I say that with a measure of kindness and humility) from imposing at the most inconvenient times for the "imposee".  For their part, Technomadia, have in their own lighthearted way let the rest of us consciencious folks know to let sleeping dogs lay.  Their case is a reminder for all the other situations out there, where imposing on others can be a selfish thing to do. Their method, in the fullness of time, may succeed as word gets around that the old GMC bus conversion with the Mini out front is off limits until there is at least one person outside the "residence" and even then, offers a wave or friendly hello in response to a greeting.  It's not rude, it's not anti-social, it is... just the way it is. There's no reason to suppose everybody is also on the same schedule as you, even your own spouse... oh well. Patience is a virtue.

FWIW, Brian

 

I like the social availability ...that's smart. Working from the rig..social availability X hours ... I may steal that.