When I was a kid, (long ago), my folks only had ONE clock in the house. It was in the kitchen above the refer.
That's how my mom taught me how to tell time. Same clock is still up there BTY. It was confusing back then because it was 1/4 past 10 or 1/4 till 10 or half past 1. Not 20 after or 20 before. Digital clocks take all guess work out of what time it is...4:19....6:34.. OK, there was another clock in the house way back then, a Coo Coo Clock in the living room but one of us had to pull the pine cone weights up and set the time. Other words, we had just one clock in the entire house. Well...mom and dad had a windup clock in their bedroom for dad to wake up at 4 am to go hit the logging world. My room was above theirs so I heard it every morning. Come to think of it....I had a clock radio back when I was 14 or so.

Today, in my home I have one clock in the kitchen, two in the living room, two in the bathroom, and three in the bedroom, the TV has a clock, the VCR has a clock, stereo has one, cell phones have clocks, computer has clocks, and oh yea, my watches have clocks. clocks in the truck, car, camper........

I just do not understand how my folks and their parents lived with just one, or maybe no clock at all. And how did they make it without a debit card???????

Kind of wish I lived a generation ago.

And what about telephones. I am amazed how telephones have become so important in daily lives, instant communcation, instant everything. You can take pictures, watch tv, go on the internet, a telephone is a computer any more, and on-and-on. Young kids today spend as much on a telephone every month as I did on car payments.

You think were getting old or something.

Oh yea, cell phone clocks!

I've got four Glocks in my house.

There must be a dozen but they can't all agree.Some of them are so stubborn they've said the same thing for years.

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I'm deprived; I only have three Glocks. A one time i had three Glock 19s; don't know why.

I gotta lot of clocks, though: eight in the house, two in cars, plus my wristwatch and a couple of spare wristwatches in my bureau. Doesn't do any good; I'm often late.

If it is late night/early morning say 2 a.m. no clock is needed just call someone and you will be told what time it is.

Clocks??? Way too many. In addition to the standard mantel clocks on the two fireplaces, the decorative wall clocks in three rooms, digital clocks on two nightstands, the clocks on both microwave ovens, the stove, the two televisions, the two computers and on three phones, my youngest daughter being in the medical profession has drug reps trying to get her office to prescribe drugs so they bring her wall clocks with the drug name on them. Now we have clocks in three bathrooms, the utility room, the breakfast room, the garage and the kitchen wall. This does not count those on the cell phones but the total is 24.

Not long ago we had at least 175 old clock's that my stepson's got after there grandmother passed . They were mostly Elie Terry and Terry & Son clock's That there grandfather collected and repaired{family related } The ones my boy's got were only half of the collection a aunt got the other half.When they were at my house my wife cared for them dusting and winding them several at a time to make sure they worked .The noise drove me nuts but after a bitt you do get used to it. The boy's have sold off most of them but did keep a few that were special to them. Now we are down to seven working clocks and several more that are antique's that sit on shelve's.

Way too many to know what time it is, as in the old proverb: man with two watches never knows what time it is. I've got a couple still on daylight savings time until I dig out the book and my dvd/stereo combo has one that flashes 12:00 just like my old vcr did.

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If I close my eyes, when standing in a check-out line, I can see an hour glass with sand running through it.

Keep the clocks in time.

The official U.S. time - clock

I was waiting for someone to say that...

We have way too many clocks in our house, but we have one very special one. As JOERM noted, they had one clock on top of the fridge. Our special clock was a house warming gift from my grandparents to my parents when they moved into a new home in 1956. It also sat on top of our fridge until the house was sold a few ysars ago.Today that same clock sits atop our fridge still running. It is pretty cool ugly styling for that era. I however, have no Glocks.

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I love clocks, especially old ones. I have 10 in my house. That's not counting the one on the stove, microwave, etc. My favorites are a large black forest cuckoo clock, and 2 Pam clocks from the '50s... one is Coca-Cola and one is Sealtest Milk.

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Misty

We have several, but I'm not counting the computers and cell phones.

When I was a kid we had 3 clocks in our house.
1 in the kitchen.
An alarm clock next to The Old Man's bed.
And The Old Man's wrist watch (which he rarely wore).

My grandfather had a modified hour glass. It ran for 58 seconds.
He watched one (and only one) TV show. Between rounds he'd turn the TV off and flip his 58 Second Glass - When the sand ran out he'd turn the TV back on. He believed that he was saving electricity.

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Aside from my watch , I don't really have any single purpose 'clocks' anymore.

Most of the electronic gizmos have digital or LED clock displays built in.
Kitchen clock is on the microwave.
Bedroom clock is a alarm clock/radio/CD/ipod dock/mini-boombox thing. Plus there's one on the TV/Blu-Ray-DVD player and cable box.

Then there's time on the computer.

Even in vehicles , the clocks are built into the stereo receiver.

I've always disliked digital clocks and watches. Digital clocks tell you what time it is, analog clocks tell you what time it isn't.

For example, I can glance at digital clock and it indicates the time is "7:49". I look at my analog clock at the same time and at a glance without doing the math I can tell that I have about 10 minutes to get to work.

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I have so many clocks in my house that i can't count them all.

42 .

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Waaay too many. Every electronic device seems to have a clock on it. I really hate it when the freakin' power goes out.

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My count is well over fifty, counting the traditional clocks. There are four laptops, two servers, three cell phones and about three dozen routers and switches, each a pretty powerful computer (with a clock) in its own right.

Oops, I forgot the car clocks and the computers in several amateur radio transceivers. The count approaches sixty units that can all tell time and not just keep a counter. The computers and active routers and switches are all synchronized to a time server here that itself syncronizes to a time server at the local university. Most of the routers and switches are off line and only funtion in a lab setting but they do have clocks and can keep traditional time. Only one of them is a mechanical clock, my Rolex Submariner. When the big EMP hits, the Rolex will be the only on that will survive.

Russ

When I was a kid one of my Great Aunts sold her farm which had been in her husbands family for generations. While helping her pack my Dad found a stash of old mantle clocks in one of the barns. She told him he could have them so they were brought home, cleaned and wound. After just a few days of 8 clock ringing midnight at slightly different times Mom told him he could wind ONE.

So the one he chose as his favorite was a dual dial Ithaca Calendar Clock which shows not only the time but the day, date and month. That clock is sitting on a shelf above my desk right now. Odd thing is that Mom gave me the clock a week before my birthday around 5 years ago and I put it on the clock shelf without winding it.

One morning my son was home from school and I called to check on him from work. He said he was fine but the clock woke him up around 6:30 in the morning. Since the clock had not been would in it least 15 years that struck me as odd. Then my Mom called to wish me a Happy Birthday and I remembered the clock. So I asked Mom if she remembered the time of day I was born and she said "Around 6:30 in the morning".

Me too. I'm beginning to think the old black electric tape to obscure the flashing time display, is going to see some use this winter.

Cheers;
Lefty

I don't wear a watch, and my cell phone stays in the truck, in case of an emergency (like 'bring home 6 cans of kidney beans').

I like it that way. I've invested a lot of effort in getting away from clocks and phones since I retired.

I'd wear a watch if I could get one with a super-slow movement that had the months on the dial instead of hours. "What time is it Dad?" "Half past December!"

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I collect old Simplex time recorders. Occasionally I wind them all up and plug in the electric motor driven ones and let 'em run a few days and all that clicking and clanking is pretty cool . . . for a day or two.

Some of you guys may have punched a Simplex time clock back in the day.

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Nice collection!

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Misty

When I was growing up, my mother was my clock. She had perfect time, so everybody in the family just asked her. Her accuracy slipped a little if she had a cold, but I never knew her to be more than two minutes off by the best clock I could find to check her, which was usually in another room. Even when I got my first wristwatch, I would check with her to see if it was running right. She had the gift until the day she died at 91.

Until recently I had this skill to a lesser degree (sometimes right on the minute, otherwise three-five minutes margin of error). I could wake up in response to a noise outside or in the house and know immediately without checking a clock that it was 1:35 or 3:14 or whatever. Now when I wake up I'm lucky if I know what day it is.

Ignoring the digital displays built into electronic equipment, I have three clocks in the house now. I rely on them a lot.

1. One of the goggle-eyed Fritz the cat things that hang on the wall and move their tails and look back and forth as time slips away; my daughters gave me that for a birthday present 30 years ago.

2. A grandfather clock that my father built from a kit in the first year after he retired.

3. An old wind-up Ansonia clock in a gaudy German ceramic case that my mother bought from her sister's antique store in Dallas about 40 years ago. She never bothered to wind it, of course; she didn't need to. She just liked the way it looked in a garish, out of control, turn of the century sort of way. Yes, my mother had a wicked sense of the absurd in addition to a wicked sense of time.

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Since one of my big hobbies is woodworking, I have quite a few clocks. Here is one of my favorites, forgive the plastic wrap still on the pendulum. This was for my grandmother and it hung on her walls for about 7 years until she passed away in 2008 and I received it back. I have plans for a craftsman-style grandmother clock that I intend to build some day.

Weird

Your not related to Art Bell are you?

A man with a clock always knows what time it it. A man with more than one clock is never quite sure.

While there are many clocks in the house neither my wife nor I own a wristwatch. That would have been unthinkable 30 years ago.

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At least one in every room, three in the kitchen, and 3 dozen + wrist watches in my watch box.

USNO Master Clock

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The one on the microwave flashes 88:88 after the power goes out. It irritates my daughter so much I occasionally unplug then replug it if I know she's going to be in the kitchen soon.

We do have three real clocks in the house, all mantle clocks. We have no mantle. However, one was my great grandmother's, one was my wife's grandmother's, and the other is a very nice Chelsea that was presented to me for one million miles of safe driving. I wish I had the old Regulator that hung on the wall when I was growing up, but Mom gave it to Sis, who's kids promptly destroyed it.

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Your a good Dad.

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Way too many. Everything seems to have a clock on it. Phones, TV, VCR, CD player, coffee maker,computer, cable box, regular oven, microwave oven, and on and on!

I have never counted them. But many.

Most match +/= 2 min.

I am one of those people that are always on time. Be it meeting someone for whatever. Work. Etc...
If I say meet at 7am. I am there at 7am.

I have noticed in a long life, that being on time for most people is like an atom bomb. Close will do. Close means ~ 15 mins.
It's not like they had nothing to tell them the time.
LOL

Guy22

I've been called a lot of things in my life, but very, very seldom late. Watching a movie the other day a comment was made that it is as rude to be early as to be late.

Hmmm, don't know if i agree w/that.

This got me thinking about the time and temp number I used to call 30 yrs ago to check my one clock.Don't know which surprised me more.That I remembered the number or that it still works.

I apparently don't have enough, as my wife is constantly asking me, What time is it? I hate that question now, I just answer it's now light or dark out.

We have a bunch, all over the house there is only one I care about, this Seth Thomas 8 day pendulum that my Mother's Great Granfather bought about 1864.
Ihas been passed don since then and I recieved it about 5 years ago.
It is beautiful and still keeps good time and chimes the hours I wind it on Sundays.
Steve W.

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