# What's on your nightstand? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891 "2023-02-16T13:55:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/21 "2023-02-16T16:25:24Z")
Clock radio (1980s vintage GE; [this exact model](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/L2MAAOSwvERgDNLi/s-l1600.jpg)) Landline phone (wireless phone on a charging station) Amazon Echo Dot Three pairs of reading glasses A signed copy of actress Felicia Day’s memoir, “You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)” ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/22 "2023-02-16T16:25:51Z")
We’ve got a bed with attached nightstands. The only things permanently on them are lamps, which are glued down to prevent pets from knocking them over. When I go to bed, I add an alarm clock, reading glasses, and my laptop. Pretty boring setup, really. Add me to those asking why nightstands are in the news. I haven’t seen anything about them. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/23 "2023-02-16T16:26:08Z")
A box of tissues, an alarm clock, and my glasses. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/24 "2023-02-16T16:31:07Z")
A lamp, a bottle of Rolaids, an alarm clock, and a small stack of books. > [@psychonaut](#): > > Add me to those asking why nightstands are in the news. I haven’t seen anything about them. Neither have I. A google search didn’t turn up anything either. I did a regular google search and a google news search and did not find anything significant. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/25 "2023-02-16T16:31:48Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Add me to those asking why nightstands are in the news. I haven’t seen anything about them. I think it has to do with the former President allegedly using a classified folder to block a blue LED light on a phone on his nightstand so he can sleep better. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/26 "2023-02-16T16:33:03Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > A box of tissues, an alarm clock, and my glasses. A box of tissues is an occasional addition if I need them. My glasses go in a niche in the bookcase headboard to keep them from becoming a kitty toy. ---
**Author:** ![NinthAcolyte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ninthacolyte/32/13676_2.png) [@NinthAcolyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinthAcolyte)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/27 "2023-02-16T16:40:18Z")
Jewelry box, phone charger, chapsticks, earplugs, and bookmarks. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/28 "2023-02-16T17:34:56Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I think it has to do with the former President allegedly using a classified folder to block a blue LED light on a phone on his nightstand so he can sleep better Hasn’t he ever heard of duct tape? Lamp, glued down with some putty stuff made for that sort of thing; kleenex; at least one alarm clock, sometimes two; probably a couple of pens and pencils; sometimes the backscratcher, though it might be in the drawer along with my glasses and a lot of miscellaneous; sometimes a book or magazine or more than one; at night, the ipad, because it’s got the app for the pacemaker on it because I have a weird phone that doesn’t do apps and I’m supposed to be close to the app some of the time; also at night, probably the clipboard that holds sudokus printed on the back of old to-do lists, which otherwise lives in the bathroom; but sometimes I can’t put it there because sometimes there’s a cat there. Also occasionally things I found in my pockets that I meant to take downstairs but keep forgetting, which could be all sorts of things. Irrigation connectors come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/29 "2023-02-16T17:39:34Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Wait… why are _nightstands_ in the news? Yes this. Back up people, this news obviously hasn’t filtered across the pond. Throw us a bone here. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/30 "2023-02-16T17:39:47Z")
- A [wake-up light](https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Wake-Up-Simulation-HF3500-60/dp/B00F0W1RIW) similar to this one, which serves as my alarm clock, lamp, and radio. - A book - A bottle of lotion - Sometimes, a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/31 "2023-02-16T17:48:20Z")
Dust, baby. And fingerprints. My lamp is a wall sconce. All junk in the drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/32 "2023-02-16T17:56:38Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Wait… why are _nightstands_ in the news? I assume this Florida nightstand: > **[3-year-old boy fatally shoots himself with handgun left in nightstand](https://abcnews.go.com/US/3-year-boy-fatally-shoots-handgun-left-nightstand/story?id=97252769)** > > A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a handgun Wednesday evening in DeLand, Florida. But when any noun is preceded by the adjective “Florida”, one should hesitate to draw more general conclusions. I would be cautious around a Florida bunny rabbit or a Florida pillow. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/33 "2023-02-16T18:06:51Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I think it has to do with the former President allegedly using a classified folder to block a blue LED light on a phone on his nightstand so he can sleep better. This. Trump does something stupid, and we riff off it. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/34 "2023-02-16T18:31:46Z")
Does the end of a book case count as a nightstand? One side of the bed has that, where I keep the white noise generator, charger for phone, Kindle, a lamp and a glass of water. The other side of the bed has a more traditional nightstand-y thing, it’s actually an antique wooden dry goods box, but on it live another lamp and, right now, a spare usb charging cable, not attached to anything. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/35 "2023-02-16T18:53:00Z")
Lamp Clock radio that projects the time up onto the ceiling in red numbers Bottle of Pepcid Complete Book Gel eye wetting drops Kleenex Reading glasses Bottle of 4-Way nasal spray Bottle of water on a coaster Next shelf down: Backscratcher ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/36 "2023-02-16T19:00:27Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Back up people, this news obviously hasn’t filtered across the pond. Throw us a bone here. As noted later in this thread: > [@](#): > > Former President Donald Trump used an empty folder labeled “classified” to block a blue light on his nightstand that had been keeping him awake at night, one of his lawyers [told CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/politics/trump-lawyer-timothy-parlatore-classified-material/index.html) on Sunday. > **[A folder marked 'classified' Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago was empty and just used...](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-used-folder-labeled-classified-block-bedroom-light-lawyer-2023-2)** > > The manilla folder found in Trump's bedroom was marked "Classified Evening Briefing", Timothy Parlatore, one of the former president's lawyers, told CNN. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/37 "2023-02-16T19:03:12Z")
Besides dust? Matches and a woodwyk candle Lush body bar Emery board and nail clippers My great aunts lamp Spray water bottle to aim at the cats trying to jump on the dresser or claw the shades When I come to bed it holds my yeti, phone and mini iPad. Sometimes a bowl of scream or almonds. Dental floss. Napkin. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/38 "2023-02-16T19:09:52Z")
Books, books, books Bookmarks Notebooks, pens Flashlight Alarm clock ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/39 "2023-02-16T19:43:49Z")
I still have the nightstand I have as a kid, so it is over 60 years old. On it are a tissue box, a lamp, a mug with pencils (the mug is a Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me mug from when we saw a taping) and the remote control for the bed - it goes up and down. In the drawer of the nightstand is a big collection of junk - pens, pencils, bookmarks, random stuff. In the space in the nightstand are old puzzle books I’ll probably never get to and a batch of the puzzle supplements from the Sunday Mercury News which I’m working my way through. And dust. Too much dust. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891/40 "2023-02-16T20:56:42Z")
I’m trying to go more minimalist these days. An analog alarm clock. A lamp A small bronze statue of a Buddha sitting on a sea turtle. That’s it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-nightstand/979891.md?page=3)