I have never been a morning person. I’ve never had a job that required me to get up terribly early, but none of them have started at the time I’d ideally be up and at ’em. Say, 10 o’clock. So I’ve always been reliant on the alarm clock to wake me.

The problem with an alarm clock, though, is that it’s oh-so-easy to make it hush.

I discovered early on that I have a bad habit of hitting the snooze button until I’m perilously close to being late. Some people remedy this by marrying an early bird who won’t allow them to sleep in. My husband, though, is an even worse snooze-button offender than I am.

But we found a solution. We moved the alarm clock across the room, well out of arm’s reach. While it didn’t completely solve the problem, it definitely lessened the chance that we’d be late. It’s much harder to fall completely back asleep when you have to toss off your covers and stand up to hit snooze.

Now, I have to admit that the when we moved, someone put the clock right back on his nightstand. The rampant snoozery hasn’t been too bad so far. If it gets out of hand, though, I’ll know just what to do.

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