I nearly always wear a dumb watch when I go somewhere.
However, I voted occasionally, because most of my time I’m home at the farm, and I don’t wear one unless I’m getting ready to go somewhere, because if I wear one around the fields it’s likely to get damaged or get caught on something and get pulled off my wrist and lost in the fields. I used to wear a pocket watch, but sturdy pocket watches have become difficult to find and expensive if you can find them; and these days I’m carrying a (very sturdy) flip phone which is nearly as handy as a pocket watch for checking time in the field or around the house.
I stopped wearing any kind of watch to bed when I was around twenty, and realized that if I woke up in the night while it was still pitch dark, and I knew I didn’t have to get up at any particular time, I was compulsively checking the time anyway. I do have a clock next to my bed; if I do have to get up early I can check that.
I suppose some people wearing a smart watch to bed are using the monitoring functions.
I went about 20 without ever wearing a watch (unless I was surfing and had to be out of the water by a certain time). The time was always right there on my phone. As of about 3 years ago, I wouldn’t be caught dead without my Apple Watch.
I went without a watch for about three months. The watch broke or something, and everyone else was just using a phone, and i decided to give it a try. I found it very inconvenient to have to pull out my phone every time i wanted to check the time. Sometimes it was socially awkward (like during an interview). Sometimes it was physically awkward (like when i was running to catch a train, and wanted to know if it was safe to walk). I’ve been wearing a watch ever since.
I have a Garmin watch, wear it all the time. In addition to time, it monitors step count, HR, respiration, & sleep also tracks my activities via GPS. Some of the watches can even track ovulation timing because apparently women get a slight body temperature change at that time of the month (I forget the exact details, but then they don’t apply to me as I don’t have those internal body parts). It died last week & every other watch I own is also dead (batteries) because I haven’t worn them in so long.
Do you not store your towels in one place? Does each bathroom have it’s own linen closet & they are of different dimensions?
I make the first towel fold lengthwise for a third of the width, then, fold that over lengthwise again so the towel has been folded in thirds. Then, it’s folded twice widthwise. It’s how my mom taught me when I was a kid (she had us doing laundry early). When towels are folded this way and stored on a shelf, it’s easy to stack them and remove them because there’s only one fold showing.
I used to wear a dumb watch all the time. I like watches as jewelry and used to have a lot. Since I retired I got out of the habit, but my doctor had me start a fitness regimen a little over a year ago, and I’ve worn a fitbit ever since. That’s a semismart watch? Not-so-dumb watch?
I resisted wearing a smart watch for years, both because of the short battery life and because I wasn’t interested in using my watch for texts, calls, and making purchases. Then I found the Garmin Quatix 7. It was the most expensive watch I’ve ever purchased, but the battery lasts a week, and it has a function for sailing and sailboat racing that I use to track my recreational sails and manage tacking during races. I’ve also gotten used to using the Garmin app to track my health stats. I still don’t use texts, calling or purchases, but now I can’t live without it and won’t go back to wearing a dumb watch unless something very bad happens to my Garmin.
I wear a watch when I’m out of the house, but rarely inside the house. Part of the reason is that I have several solar powered watches, and if I don’t wear them regularly, they’ll go dead and then I have to reset them when I want to wear one of them. I rotate them, wearing a different watch each time to keep them all at least moderately charged.
My wife, OTOH, stopped wearing a watch when our oldest was a baby, I think because the watchband kept catching on his clothing and burp diapers when she was holding him. That’s well over 30 years ago, and she’s gotten incredibly good at estimating the time just by gauging the sun. She’s usually within about 15 minutes of the correct time that way. Shifting from daylight to standard time messes her up for about a week.
I have a solar powered watch. I wore a Garmin for a while, and not wanting my solar powered watch to die, i left it on a windowsill rather than inside a drawer.
I find that watches irritate my wrist, especially when I’m typing. On a few embarrassing occasions I’ve taken the watch off and then forgotten it somewhere. So now I just don’t wear them.
I’m a 54-year-old woman: I don’t wear any jewelry when I’m just hanging out at home, but I always wear a dumb watch if I’m out of the house. I went through a smartwatch phase a while back (I had a few Pebbles before they were bought by Fitbit, and subsequently tried a couple other brands), but ultimately found that their form and fiddly-ness outweighed their benefits[1]. Even though I’ve worn a watch for as long as I can remember, I was never a “watch person” – I was dedicated to cheap/replaceable Timex or department store models – until about 10 years ago. Now I have 5 of them! My dress watch is a Timex, I have a Timex NY Yankees watch, and my three main watches are all Citizens with Eco-Drive (meaning they’re powered by light…any light, not just sunlight). I just bought the most recent one of those on Friday afternoon.
(I know that five watches doesn’t make me much of a “watch person” by many standards, and none of them cost more than a few hundred dollars, but for me it’s a lot! )
Re: watches. I wore a wristwatch pretty much all the time starting around age 8, when my father gave me a Timex as a gift.
I did so until 2020, and COVID, when I just stopped wearing them; as I remember it, I was getting frustrated when the watchband would repeatedly bump against the edge of my laptop computer while I was working.
I just had new batteries put into two of my old watches a few weeks ago, and have started to wear them again.
I used to wear an old school analog watch, but I haven’t worn a watch of any sort in many years. I stopped wearing one when my old watch broke, and once I stopped wearing it I quickly realized I didn’t miss it at all. If I’m at my desk at work I’m sitting in front of a computer that displays the time. The rest of the time I have my phone on me, so I can check the time there. Yes, that means I have to take my phone out of my pocket, but I consider that such a minor inconvenience it doesn’t justify buying a new watch.
I wear a cheap, water-resistant mostly-plastic watch if I’m going out and need to keep track of time. I’m now trying a fitness band that shows the time plus a medical alert slider, which will be a 3-in-1 dealie if it works. It’s not a smart watch by any means. The other arm occasionally sports an electronic anti-nausea device if I will be in a car, bus, or boat.
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