What time do you get up and go to bed?

Does it bother you and make you miserable Quietlife? Why ‘just can’t do it? Are you in poor physical or mental health?

My usual bedtime is after 1am, actually nearer 2, then I wake just before 6am.
I don’t need a lot of sleep and I never nap during the day, unless I’m unwell.
I’m 75 now, widowed and live alone, so I get up, make tea and potter until it’s time to start my day - I meet someone most weekday mornings for coffee.

The ‘Wakey Wakey - time to get up’ thread on chat maybe interesting Quietlife.

Depending on how tired I am, I go to bed at any time between say 9.30 and midnight. I’m often awake a lot in the night, for the loo, and reading, not to mention coming downstairs, to make a cup of tea.

I might be up at 7.30 or it might be nearly 9 - so unless I have to be up, in which case I set the alarm - I get up when I wake up and feel like it. If it’s 6.30 I will usually go back to sleep or read for a bit.
One of the joys of retirement (for me anyway) is that I don’t often have to get up for anything particular.

I got to bed about 9 but wake most mornings before 6. I can't sleep any later no matter what time I go to bed. It suits me. I can stay up later if im going out but otherwise about 9

I never go to bed before 10.30 and it is usually 11.30 before I settle for sleep. On a good night I am ready to get up around 8 am, but if I sleep badly, like last night when I was awake from 3.30- 5.15 but then dropped off, it was 9 am before I got up, really late for me.
None of this matters unless I have a deadline needing an early start, which is rare. Just relax and do what feels best for you.

Maybe 10 is too early for you?
I assume you're not drinking caffeine in the evening as this will be in your system for hours and prevent your nodding off.
You get up in the night a lot. Maybe you shoulkd limit your evening drinks and drink more in the mornings/early afternoon? Maybe you should have your bloods checked to see if you're not pre-diabetic? Do you also gto the toilet a lot in the daytime? Maybe you are just drinking too much?
Our daytime habits really do impact on the quality of our sleep.
10 o clock would be too late for me but I rise as soon as I wake up. You are very lucky to be brought tea in bed!
If you are not an early riser then stop trying to be one. However, 12 hours of being in bed is too much and not healthy so maybe just go to bed around midnight?

I'm retired. I don't get up early unless I have somewhere to be.

Bed at 11 up at 7

I go to bed at around 11.00 and get up anytime between 6,00 and 8.
I do love to have a cuppa in bed in the morning though.
Sunshine is my motivation in the morning.

Quietlife

I go to bed at 10 and don’t always sleep well. I get up a lot in the night for the toilet. I wake about half past 8 when my husband makes me a cup of tea but don’t get up until nearly 10 most days. I would love to be an early riser but just can’t do it.

What time you go to bed and get up is personal to you and your body clock. I go to bed around 11 and get up around 9/9.30am. I have never been a morning person and now I am retired can please myself about what time to get up. Some of my friends are horrified, they still get up at silly o'clock in the morning, just as they did when they were working. Not for me! Each to their own!

I get up at 6.30 and at work before 8
Go to bed about 10 but wake up at 3am every night without fail

I take a sleeping pill & go to bed when they kick in. I am a terrible sleeper though

It depends. On the 3 mornings I work I am in the shower at 6am. Days I don’t work any time between 8/9am. Up at 7-30 on Sundays for church. Lie in with tea in bed on Saturdays reading the papers.

According to how tired I am I go to bed anytime between 9-30 and midnight. Sometimes I read sometimes I go straight to sleep

Work days or not I go to bed between 11pm and 12 midnight I wake by 4am and get up at 6am,
Anyone wanting company in the night there’s a tread for you entitled ‘Thread two for the 3am crew’ Everyone welcome for a chat a moan or whatever you want

Even though I have been retired a long time, I still wake before 6am and I am usually up before 7am. Most nights I am in bed before 9.30pm but I tend to read for quite a long time before putting the light out.

I don't keep these hours and get up at silly o'clock for any particular reason, it just seems to be the way my body clock works.

Does it matter?
Does anybody care?
At our great age, can't we do as we like?

My cat comes to get me at around 10.30pm-do not know how he knows!
Sometimes I concur,sometimes not,but I will be reading in bed for about another hour at least.
Get up around 7.30 am,aided by the cat sometimes when he scratches the bedclothes.

Bed at 11 to midnight .....up at 7 if in work....otherwise up at 9

I go to bed between 10.30 and 11.30. I wake a couple of times for the toilet, but don't sleep very peacefully anyway. I'm up between 7 and 7.45. I'm 67

Go to bed at about 11.30pm, read or scroll the Internet until about 12.30pm/1.00am. Wake any time between 6.30am - 7.30am. I only need about 6 hours sleep, can't seem to stay asleep any longer than that. However, once awake in the morning, I read the online papers and catch up on social media and, unless I have somewhere to be, only get out of bed at 9.00/9.30am. Loving the fact that as I no longer work, I don't have to leave the house at 7.30am, especially in winter, and certainly don't miss scraping ice off my car on a cold dark winter's morning!

not an early bedder, usually between 11 and 12, if I have to have a toilet trip during the night, which I usually do, it means I'm usually awake for a couple of hours, but get up about 10am

I think my bedtime is too early. I usually fall asleep around 8:45-9. I wake nearly every night around 12-2am and it takes quite a while to fall back to sleep. I’ve tried staying up later but if I am home I cannot stay awake. I dread being out late and I dread the idea of sleeping meds, even Melatonin. Not sure what to do tbh. Screen time like right now surely can’t help. That much I do know

Read for an hour before bed, usually asleep by ten, Wake up about 5 for 'convenience/ comfort!', go back to sleep and wake about 7.30 a.m. I need my sleep to function all day or else I get tired. My two aunts used to take a nap between about 2 and 4 in the afternoon and no one was allowed to disturb them. They would go to bed, read, snooze.

When I first retired, and kept getting asked 'What is the worst and best thing about retirement?', my reply to Best thing, was always - not having to set an alarm clock and letting myself wake naturally.

This was a long time ago, and I do use the alarm most days now.

I had sleep apnoea (undiagnosed) for some years, and was so.....very tired increasingly. Was going to bed about 9 pm, up several times in the night for loo trip, then up about 8 am each morning, but falling asleep in my chair for a further hour after my breakfast.

Once I got my CPAP machine everything changed.......I now go into my bed just before 10 pm, but then spend the next 60 - 90 minutes listening to audio book whilst doing Sudoku puzzles. Settle down then to sleep (put on mask), now only need one loo trip each night (about 4 am ish), and usually go back to sleep pretty quickly. I always set alarm for 7.45 as I like to be out of bed by 8.00 am

Quick shower, then long brekkie (just mug of tea and porridge), but then spend a happy hour on laptop - before getting dressed and going out. Most days I have something to get to by about 10 ish, prefer morning things, and rarely go out in the evening - that is my tv and knitting time.