I see them on the W-M website and Amazon. Maybe they are just not in your local store?

I use a projection clock with a battery backup. It synchronizes itself to the atomic clock so it sets the time itself. One nice thing about being old...No alarm clock.

Have an IKEA nearby? That is where I found a looooong shoe horn.

hope all is well for you today.

Moni

Amazon has everything you listed. Why travel outside the home and risk an injury to your injury?

Alexa is cheap, since you have internet, use her to sing to you, wake you up, listen to news, daily briefing, etc.

We use Hue lights to gently wake us in the morning. No sounds or clock needed.

High tech (the more the better) is actually beneficial for us older folks. Don't run from it. :)

oh, i found the long shoehorn at w-mart... they have everything. it was the no-frills clock/radio that really floored that kid yesterday. i know my cell phone can be an alarm... too little and not wanting to fumble for it. i'm not a "snooze button" kinda person, but want BIG digital read-out across the room.

and not surprised that instructions were NOT up to my standards!! ;)

I got a nice clock radio from Walmart a couple of years ago, for the guest room. And long shoe horns are usually in the senior dept near the pharmacy. I know Walgreens has them. We used the short ones when dressing my mother and it really made getting her feet into the shoe a lot easier for her and for us.

for a while was contemplating that "as seen on TV" gizmo to put socks on! luckily managed to do that on my own as thing have progressed!

Chloe,

Gardenweb knows more about you than Alexa! LOL

And your phone? it watches you sleep. :)

Oh, I know, Brushworks. But Gardenweb only knows what I've posted, and nothing about my personal life that can be tied to the REAL me. :)

My phone doesn't watch me sleep - it's in a drawer in the nightstand (which means I have to make my motor skills do their thing when the alarm goes off - insurance for not falling back to sleep.. lol).

If you have to get to an airport or make an important appointment in the morning, do not use your cell phone as an alarm. I have to admit that I still have the old flip phone. Over the past three years, mine has had the wrong time twice and it had to be rebooted or something.

I've never missed a flight or an appointment! lol

DSW gives out long shoe horns for free!

Thanks for the reminder to get a new clock. I only set the alarm on my for trash day or if I have a early morning appointment. Recently when I press the off button it makes a sound like it is dying. I use my phone when I travel but for what ever reason like the above poster it has reset to a different time zone and not the one I am in.

I don't even own an alarm clock. I use my cell phone. I've never had the time change by mistake. It changes as it's supposed to during daylight saving time. And a flip phone. Do they even make those anymore? I would expect to see one in the Smithsonian, lol. I had one some 15+ years ago.

I have a flip phone and really like it. I don't live and die by it. Only use it PRN.

ok, what's PRN?

Maybe hang it with a string (maybe including a short piece of elastic) from a hook in the ceiling?

ole joyfuelled ... who isn't too sure who/what he is, sometimes

I prefer an alarm clock too. Yes, I could use my phone, but when I wake up while it is still dark, and turn my head, I can tell what time it is...without pushing any buttons... and putting the glasses on to see the little numbers.... ;)

Often I wish, I still had the flip phone, and never got this darn blasted VERY EXPENSIVE phone.

Moni

PRN = pro re nata = as needed

I bought a new alarm clock at W about 2 yrs ago. It's huge - the numbers are about 3" high - in red. The numbers on my other one are only about 1.5" high.

It also has a terribly annoying alarm. Sounds like something you'd hear in a commercial bldg. as warning of a fire, attack, earthquake etc. It is horrible - but it wakes me up - cause I hate it and it is loud. Just what I needed!

I only set it if I have a doc appt - or on a Sat if I need to go to the bank (closes at noon on Sat). I did that for today. It takes me a few hours to be mobile and able to think - so I usually set it for about 3 hrs before I need to leave the house. just to be sure I actually wake up and don't roll over and pull the comforter over my head.

somewhere I have an old windup alarm clock from my mom's stuff. When I remember where I stashed it, I'm going to get it out and see if it still works.

Well, if you set a time for alarm that tells you it's the time you set. No need to see the numbers. :)

Use an alarm clock at home. When my little travel clock died last year I had to use my cell phone on trips. So far it's worked okay. Still have my old Galaxy 4S...2 people in the last 2 weeks have told me I need to buy a new phone. Nope. Not unless this one dies on me...and then I'll probably buy an older version of some phone out there. I'm not paying $400-800 or more for a stupid phone.

I don't blame the salesperson. I had to read your original post three times, and some of the replies, to figure out what you were looking for. So you need a kitchen grabber, long shoe horn, and an alarm clock?

Did you find them?

I'll be honest. I'm in my mid 30s and, while I knew what a shoe horn "was", I didn't actually learn it's name until a few years ago.

I just knew it as this ancient relic my grandparents used to put on their shoes.

To be fair, I also had the same "know what it is but don't know the name/never used it" for a boot jack until I got my first pair of cowboy boots a few years ago and lamented to my kids that I wish I had a "thing a ma bobber, I know what it looks like but don't know the name" to help remove cowboy boots.

A boot jack! ;). Still don't have one though.

We still use alarm clocks, my husband has a clock radio and I have a digital alarm clock. They still sell them, I believe at Walmart you will find them with the decor and lamps if I'm not mistaken. I think if you said "alarm clock" they would have known what it was, probably "clock radio" may be over their heads...HAHA! I swear I think some people live in a hole or something....don't they ever pay any attention? Surely they go to Grandma's house and surely Grandma has an alarm clock.

If my grandmother had an alarm clock, it would have been in her bedroom. I do not remember ever being in her bedroom until she passed, and we were cleaning it out.

I just ordered a retro alarm clock with those two big bells on top. I like clocks. In my small place I had to change nine for daylight savings time.

I like being able to open my eyes and see what time it is, without clicking my cellphone button. I have an ancient clock-radio-alarm on my nightstand. The pushbutton that lets you adjust the time 'pushed' all the way down into the innards of the clock! If I set my cellphone alarm for 11:59, I can unplug the clock-radio and replug it in at noon and hope it doesn't flash 12:00 flash 12:00 flash 12:00 .... worth a try....

When I was still working, my old Sony alarm/CD player went kaput. I love waking up to music but didn’t really need the CD player so I got this. It’s compact and has 2 alarm settings to wake up to, including nature sounds you can pick, or a radio station. I usually woke up to a nature sound first, followed by a radio station music 10 minutes later. You can also select the display intensity (I put it on the brightest for the photo), or turn it off, or display on the ceiling.My glasses are in front for scale, but it is 4x4 inches.