My husband sleeps right through my snoozing too. If it bothered him, I’d cut back on it. Even when he uses his own alarm, most of the time I end up having to poke at him to get him to shut it off. I’d probably have to wake him if the smoke alarm went off. He certainly doesn’t wake up when the dog wants out in the middle of the night, or when one of the kids feels compelled at 3am to come and tell me about the hangnail that’s bothering them.
By hitting the snooze alarm for half an hour. 
Well, if you have to get up, that sounds like kind of a fun way to do it… you and your dog frantically chasing around the little plastic demon, bumping heads into each other and tripping each other.
Leaffan, my husband does the exact same thing. The alarm is set for five, but he actually gets up at 5:45. I hate, loathe, and despise the snooze button, but I know it’s necessary to his waking-up process. For me, if I hit the snooze, I only gradually drift back into sleep, and then blam the damn alarm has gone off again. It’s all the pain of waking up multiplied.
Right now I have to get up at five to take pills, so I don’t mind as much as usual, but it’s still annoying.
She’s such a heavy sleeper that music on the alarm will not wake her up. So she uses the buzzer and it makes this awful BUAAAH BUAAAH (Pope) BUAAAH BUAAAH sound when it goes off. I don’t suppose I can say much since I’m the one that bought the clock for her. It doesn’t matter though, a new clock wouldn’t help. I’m a light sleeper and I can wake up to whomever is whispering the news/weather on NPR.
Back in college when I was still living at home, my mother’s alarm clock would often wake me with two closed doors and the length of a hallway between me and it.
I hit the button a few times. It’s not intentional; it’s not even a conscious decision. I couldn’t even tell you how many times I hit it for sure. Usually the alarm goes off at 5:45. I think I hear it, but I’m not sure. Usually somewhere around 6:20 I realize that it is morning and I have to get ready for work. So I guess I hit it anywhere between zero and three times. Sometimes when I wake up I am not entirely sure that I’ve been up, which means that I’ve slept through thirty minutes of ERH ERH ERH ERH. I don’t think it bothers my husband because he usually can’t be woken by an alarm anyway. When I lived alone, I slept through my alarm and was about an hour late to my first job out of college. I had only been there a month or so and after they were done being worried that I was dead in a ditch, they were pissed! After that, I bought two or three alarm clocks and had them strategically placed in my apartment. Then I set my cell phone, in case the power went out, and put the stereo, lamp and coffee pot on timers. I figured the more senses I could disrupt the better.
I often fantasize about Jetson-esque conveyer belts that will get me ready for work without my knowing it.
I generally have to hit the snooze a couple times. It’s sort of like running the bilge blower on a power boat before starting the engine. You have to get the fumes cleared out of the engine compartment before you crank it over. That first alarm gets my brain into a slow warm up. When the second alarm goes off I decide if my brain is cleared of the fumes accumulated overnight. If so, I get up. Otherwise, let the bilge clear out a little longer. If I try to get up with the first alarm I’ll have a rotten headache all day.
But the important part is: It would get you out of bed, right?
What the world needs is alarm Bluetooths. Attach the earpiece to the heavy sleeper’s ear in a way that it can’t come off but is comfortable. Sleeper can hear their “alarm” in their head, but their partner can’t.
Thank God I rarely need to use an alarm at all. I just sleep until I’m ready to get up. On the occasions I do need to set the alarm though, I prefer to just show some discipline and pop up as soon as I hear it. (I have to anyway, since I purposely keep my alarm out of reach of my bed)
Shoot. We don’t even use our alarm on our clock in the bedroom! I’m an insomniac, and I don’t sleep very long during the night. My husband is only home one weekends, and when it’s time for him to get up and get ready for work, I’m already up, so I wake him myself.
Snooze buttons are not needed at our house!
I hit the snooze because the time in between hitting the snooze is very satisfying.
I find it hard and uncomfortable to go to sleep. And mid-sleep though recuperative, it’s not physically satisfying. Being able to lay there in bed while either going back to sleep or waiting for the snooze to go off again IS physically satisfying and comfortable. Therefore that’s what I do.