How many clocks

One each on cooker and microwave, one in sitting room and one in bedroom. I have never worn a watch (except when travelling) since I retired 10 years ago from teaching. I have no further wish to be ruled by the bell !! I do though seem to have an inbuilt ability to know what time it is (within 15 mins) without looking at a clock.

Do they not take into account the fact that as you get older, people give you all sorts of things, and you inherit them as well? My mother gave me some carriage clocks and I was really quite pleased when they broke down! Most younger people use watches and cooker, microwave, computer and phone. I do have a small clock in the sitting room, I have a phone by my bed and use the time on that, and I have had to put a small clock in DBH's bathroom so that he doesn't spend too long in the loo and be late for work!

I can't bear the sound of ticking clocks at night.

Alarm, carriage clock and my beloved long case clock that I inherited.

Loads of clocks, not one in every room, but ahem 2 or 3 in a couple of rooms.
Even my mother comments on how many clocks we have!

We have 8 clocks , one in every room and 3 in the living room. Then there are all the gadgets with timers, coffee makers, radios, TV attachments etc. None in the loos, office or utility room. 3 are chiming clocks.

I didn't like ticking clocks when we first got married, I had an electric clock in the kitchen that was always set to GMT and that was it. I seem to have a built-in alarm clock and rarely oversleep by more than ten minutes.

We do have radios in every room though.

I have a pretty carriage clock in the living room, a kitchen clock and my DH and I both have an alarm clock. We have the family heirloom grandfather clock in the hall, which doesn't work. Perhaps just as well as my DH says that it is very loud, (he remembers it from his childhood). And that's it, apart from the various devices with clocks as integral parts eg. the cooker.

Carriage clock, kitchen clock (VW Beetle momorabilia), clocks on cooker and microwave, DAB radio.

No clocks in the house anywhere. I have a wristwatch, which I only wear if I have to. If an alarm is needed, Mr. ffin's tablet does the necessary.

There's the distant ring of the church bell in the next village at 7.00am every morning, which is rather nice.

Actually there are two. This old computer and the tablet. Glad not to have ticks, clicks, whirrs, chimes, dongs and cuckoos.

I won't count electronic clocks- as they are not 'clocks' in my book.

I live in the land of clocks- so we have three- 1 inherited from my parental great grandparents and 1 from my mum's- and 1 skeleton clock I bought for OH on his 40th BD (from Scott's of Stow ... of all places). Love clocks.

1 wall clock in the kitchen, other than that, microwave, oven, iPhone and iPad. I also wear a watch

I grew up with enough noisy chiming/striking clocks to never want one in my home. Worst of all was an Aunt's cuckoo clock, just wanted to strangle that bird!

I love it when the room is quiet and I can hear the clock ticking, it seems so peaceful then, but doesn`t happen very often. My great aunt had a grandmother clock with chimes and I loved it, when she died my mother inherited it, and promptly turned off the chimes, one of my sisters has it now, and those lovely chimes are still silent, such a shame. Wish I had it!

An interesting question Tanith, perhaps it is an older person thing.I have always loved clocks, but don't have all that many now I think about it. more than the children though, who only have alarm clocks.So, a very ornamental little clock given to us as a present years ago, in the hall. a kitchen clock on the wall, two alarm clocks in our bedroom, um, a small clock in the study,
And an outdoor one combined with a thermometer on a garden wall.

My Grandmother used to have a lovely cuckoo clock with long pine cone weights which I often used to play with. I later found that I had regularly mucked up the timing, but she never said anything to me or got cross about it.

As Numberplease says, a ticking clock sounds lovely, reassuring somehow.