Do you take your wristwatch off at night?

In My Humble Opinion
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Join me, if you have the balls to retrain your brain.

I wore a watch from the time I was 5 years old until last year ( 37). Never.went.a.day.with.out.one.ever.

I own 10 watches. Some actually even work and I still have my very first watch. I love watches.

I was running my life on a schedule dictated by The Clock. Eat at this time. Sleep at this time. Read at this time. Nap for two hours. The kids and I fought over meals and bedtimes. Not alot of fun. I decided to chill out and ignore the clock and pay attention to their body rythms. Instead of “We Eat At 5pm.” I have everything ready and simmering, and we eat sometimes between 530-7pm, when I start noticing their behavior acting up from low fuel. Bedtimes are later with more, less rushed readings involved and mornings are not rushed most of the time as I lay out their clothes the night before. My naps are judged now on hitting the sheets when I feel tired, not because " At 2pm I always take a snooze for an hour." I wake up more refreshed.

I don’t even look at the clock most of the times in the AM because the kids know breakfast is over, they dress and brush their teeth and are at the backdoor ( beating the crap out of each other) and I need to warm up the car. We haven’t been late yet, even when I’ve misjudged the shitty (dirt washboard) roads we have right now and terrible snow conditions. If we are late, so what, a few minutes isn’t the end of the world. This coming from a girl who was.never.late.in.12.years.of.formal.education.

I realized that I was a slave to time and needing a watch was useless since my car has a clock, my cell has a clock and eveyrone around me has a watch/cell phone. Yelling at kids " It’s ten after and we have to leave in fifteen minutes" automatically slows them down to negative three hundred. Or speeds them up into hyper-spaztic drive, causing more problems.

I freed up my mental space considerably when I gave up wearing watches.

I highly, highly, highly recommend: In Praise Of Slowness:How A Worldwide Movement Is Changing The Cult of Speed I heard about the Slow Movement about 10 years ago and went, " Huh. That’s very interesting." Never forgot about it, wanted to visit a slow city and all that and I got this book from the library and it is excellent with wonderfull little bits of humor gently interspersed.
Get rid of your watch. Stop being ruled by time. Rule your own time.

Viva La Revolution!

I’d shut up now, but I cannot recommend it enough. Yeah, I’ll be proletyzing through your mailslot anyday now.

:slight_smile:

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But Shirley, I love my watch. My watch was a dream throughout my entire childhood, as my mother had this type of watch. She would never buy it for me, though, as I was truly a terror on watches.

I only got it two years ago!

43

Wearing a watch every day (and liking it) != being ruled by time. I don’t do anything according to a particular schedule – with the possible exception of going to meetings and my classes and stuff – but I like to be able to know what time it is when I wonder about it. And yes, there are clocks on my cell phone, PDA, etc., but there’s no guarantee that I’ll have one of those things with me: if I’m out of my house, though, I have a watch on.

Today I met someone for lunch, and we sat and talked for 2.5 hours: I had no idea that much time had gone by until we parted ways and I looked at my watch, even though the watch had been on my wrist the entire time. :slight_smile:

44

I take my watch off before I take my evening shower. I even wear my watch when I have no need to know the time. I like wearing a watch. It gives me a little feeling of security that I don’t get from anything else. Like a little blanket on my wrist.

45

I only take my watch off to either play with it when I’m bored, or sometimes to type, as it gets in the way. I sleep with it on because I can’t see any clock from any bed I’ve slept in in years. Being near sighted is so much fun. One of my friends came into my bed room one day and asked how I dealt with the fact that my clock wasn’t visible from my bunk and neither was my roommate’s. We politely explained to him that we couldn’t read either clock from the other side of the room, not matter what we did. He just looked in awe at us and told us it would drive him insane. Oh well. I was crazy to start.

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I never ever thought about my watch untill today. I think I have had the current one 6/7 years. It has never come off. It swims, it showers, it does the dishes…it is superwatch evidently (though the Timex people told me I would kill it wearing it in the shower. OK so it’s a Timex not superwatch :smiley: ) but I went to the beach with a friend today and realised how seldom I actually look at my watch.

My friend had to be somewhere at 8 O’clock and from about 5:30 kept asking me what the time was (evidently she is the no watch at the beach type) after looking at it for about the 6th time I realised I never look at my watch usually. I have no idea why I wear the damn thing.

I am thinking if I take it off it I may have a mossy wrist though. :slight_smile:

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I normally don’t take anything off before I go to sleep. Sometimes I’ll take my shoes off first, but that’s about it.

48

I take my watch off when I shower. That’s it.

Well, one other occasion too…

49

My current band is a tad small so I almost always take it off when I’m not concerned with knowing the exact time.

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YAYAYAYAAY We’ve had a breakthrough!

See, Calm Kiwi is doing it!

Whoooooo’s Next?
Too bad it isn’t Mr. Arrive-Exactly-On-Time-or-The-Universe-Will-Implode-Ujest. But, hey, every person has their own personal Mt. Everest to scale.

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Good. Cause it does get tangled in long hair, and that’s a good way to ruin the mood. :slight_smile: