How many clocks do you have in your house?

[JOERM]

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.

 

[everReady Rob]

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.

 

[JOERM]

Oh yea, cell phone clocks!

 

[charlie sherrill]

I've got four Glocks in my house.

 

[DeathGrip]

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.

 

[Cyrano]

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

 

[Cyrano]

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.

 

[kmyers]

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.

 

[oldman45]

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.

 

[sureshotbob]

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.

 

[doublesharp]

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.

 

[bobsdad]

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

 

[Damn Yankee]

Keep the clocks in time.

The official U.S. time - clock

 

[Maximumbob54]

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.

I was waiting for someone to say that...

 

[Shooting Padre]

When I was a kid, (long ago), my folks only had ONE clock in the house. It was in the kitchen above the refer.

Kind of wish I lived a generation ago.

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.

 

[gunlovingirl]

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.

 

[DeadAye]

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.

 

[mkk41]

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.

 

[Faulkner]

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.

 

[mg357]

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