QUESTION: How many times do you hit the snooze button? Here’s how GON Readers responded… • 24% Never! I rise and shine as soon as my alarm sounds • 24% I wake up naturally without an alarm clock • 14% Once...and then I get up • 14% Three times or more...and then I "reluctantly" get up • 11% Twice...and then I get up • 10% Other • 2% I never hear my alarm. Somebody else does, and wakes me up • 1% I have several alarm clocks and I snooze them all repeatedly Other GON Reader Comments: • My alarm is across the room, so it's not accessible to hit snooze. • I wake before my alarm, usually. But if my alarm goes off, I get up immediately. • Depends, I know when I HAVE to get up. • Mostly twice, but if the day has a special goal, I get up directly. • When we first got married, my husband and I made the agreement that neither would use the snooze button. It’s not fair to the other person who may have a later waking time. It’s rude to disturb their sleep every 7 minutes! So, we set the alarm, turn it off quickly and get up quietly. Happily married for 34 years. • Alarm clock? What alarm clock?! • I’m retired, but live in Belize where the birds, chickens and dogs all wake up at dawn. I get up about 30 minutes later. • I set an alarm clock, but I often wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble falling back to sleep. If this happens, I will either change the alarm time or turn it off. I usually wake up naturally by 7 a.m., but since I work during the week, I try to set the alarm, so I can avoid being late to the office, if possible. I set the alarm on the weekend, because then I have the luxury of either getting up or turning off the alarm and sleeping as long as I want. Weird, but it makes me happy. • Twice, but I have extra cushion time built in to let this happen. I do not like to wake up in a hurry. I need time to process the plans for the day. • I still use a clock radio. I have it set to one of my favorite local stations and I wake to the music each morning. I find it better then any type of alarm. • I'm retired. I get up when I want with no alarm clock. • Sometimes I hit snooze once, but often get up beforehand (woken by partner talking or getting up). • Retired, so no need for an alarm except for special occasions. Prior to retirement I would hit the snooze alarm repeatedly until I absolutely had to get up or I would be late for work! • Now that I'm "retired" from stay-at- home-mom, I generally just sleep until I wake up naturally. On the days I have to get up at a certain time, I not only snooze, but I reset the alarm time…deciding while I'm half asleep that I just don't need that much time to get ready. Then, of course, I'm late! • Never. Instead I set two alarm times, 5 minutes apart. I either get up during those five minutes, or wait for the second alarm. That’s less than “snooze” time.