I work every other week. It seems I catch up on my sleep on my off week. I slept for 10 hours the other night, and 9 hours last night. Sleeping in to me is 8-8:30, not 6, ha ha

We still have a few decades before retirement so its an as we can thing but yes. The man is a human space heater and I'll stay snuggled up with him asleep as long as I can.

No one here is retired and we are in our 80's. A housewife never retires! My husband goes to work six days a week most of the time. He does not get up as early as he once did but he has been ill and needs the rest year round, so no we do not sleep in because of cooler weather.

Sue

We just had this discussion...again. Yes, we both sleep GREAT in cooler weather. The kitty cat cuddles with us, one big happy family. Then the other day I fell asleep at 7:30pm, just exhausted. I slept 10 hours. I started thinking about this. The sprinkler system comes on @ 2am(DH says that's when the water pressure is peak). I was getting 3.5 hours of sleep, then taking cat naps after the sprinkler woke me up....so sleep deprived. :0) Problem solved. It now comes on 9pm. Yes....I'm laughing. No logic. Problems we create then have to be solved for no apparent reason. It was 55f last night....I slept great!

I'm retired as well as DH and we get up any old time. I never go to sleep before two so I get up between 8 and 10. It's wonderful. Retirement is the best.

I have to get up at 6AM to take the dog out. I do hate getting up when it is dark and cold. It feels like you are getting up in the middle of the night.

Don't have that luxury with diabetes....that damned insulin wants its injection on a schedule LOL

I'm retired, and I sometimes go to bed late. It's nice to sleep later in the morning after. I also love to snuggle up in my bed when it's chilly.

We both like to get up around 7:30 as the norm. Things change if we have something to do, but this time seems toward for us.

"toasty bed"

Thank you for the reminder. It's time to get the electric blanket out and set it up on the bed.

My waking pattern is dependent on the sun rise, not the temperature. Not the same thing. A later sunrise in the fall and winter allows me to sleep later. In the summer when the sun comes up at 6, I'm up! (I am semi-retired.)

I so dislike dull grey rainy days....been known to just read in bed 'till noon. Especially now when I have so few household tasks to do. What's the point? When it is sunny, or just not rainy...my cuppa coffee and my internet call me. Being "retired" is great....being "old", not so much.

I sleep much more soundly in cold weather. My favorite treat on a Saturday morning in winter is to snuggle in bed until the sun is shining brightly especially after staying up until the wee hours on Friday night reading or watching videos.

No. I'm not retired, but even on weekends and vacation I'm up around 4:45-5:00. I go to bed around 10pm - sometimes as late as 11, sometimes as early as 9. I don't nap. I don't want to waste my life sleeping. lol

LOVE sleeping in cold weather. I put this amazing, soft, fuzzy blanket on our bed that I bought at Costco last month. Could not wait to use it.

So snuggly!

6 is still on the early side for me. That's what I like to shoot for.

I have been sleeping very soundly lately, in part because of the cool weather and also because my jackass neighbors turned off the spotlight that shines directly into my bedroom windows. The light will be back on after Halloween since they are using the socket for their Halloween lights. I'll get another break at Christmas. I asked them kindly if they would turn it off at night and they said no. Jeez. I do think the cooler temps and the sun being lower in the sky help me sleep.

My cats typically wake me up around 4 or 4:30 for their breakfast. Of course I "trained" them to do this by responding. But I love the early mornings, both summer and winter. Drink coffee, pet cats, read, pray, doze for a couple of hours before getting ready for work.

dedtired-can you use a sleep mask?

A shame your neighbor keeps a spot on all night. At least he could get a motion-activated one.

Dedtired, my bedroom window faces a light that shines over the parking lot of the apartment bldg next door. I feel your pain.

Dedtired,

There is film you can get for your windows. It is cheap, can be cut with scissors, and sticks to the inside of the window with water so is easily removed. It cuts the sunlight for people who are trying to save energy by decreasing the heat in the house in the summer. But. The side that faces out is mirror film. So it will reflect back toward them. So they can be illuminated jackasses.

I normally get up at 8 for work if I'm lucky. I usually wake very early and my brain starts working on something, sleeping is impossible when I can't slow down my thinking. A downside of the whole work from home program. Nice commute though.

I wake even earlier on weekends, so many projects and so little time off.

I have no set requirements and do what ever I feel like . If I read in bed till 2am and want to be in bed till noon I can , not a usual event however . But I am not an early riser , I am done with that . My husband still works so he does get up early but not as early as he used to . The days I am hurting real bad I might spend a lot of time in bed reading and on my tablet . Not much to do in the limited space in the rv. Changes in weather and temperatures equals pain so not sleeping very well these days and nights .

I think I have bear genes in my DNA. When the temp drops below the mid fifties at night I go into hibernation mode.

I am a night person and late to bed late to rise in any case. But in winter I sleep more hours.