What's that hanging so threateningly on the wall there? Why, of course: it's just a Killer Cuckoo Clock!

Most of the people who use Online Clock probably don’t know this, but we’re actually located in Berlin, Germany.

My name’s Tom, and I’m the creator of the original online alarm clock website, and I’m an American guy who moved to Berlin from San Francisco, California about ten years or so ago.

Berlin is a great city. It’s big, it’s pretty cheap (at least by American standards) and it has a lot happening culturally. It’s a city still the process of inventing itself and creating itself…so there’s always something new here. And Germany’s also not a bad place to live, though of course there’s no place like home.

I was doing some research for a blog post about Cuckoo Clocks and I discovered these really great modern Cuckoo Clocks from an artist who apparently goes by the name of Deine Heimat, which means “your country” or “your homeland” translated from the German.

Here we see a Killer Cuckoo Clock with some beautiful blue background lighting.

So obviously, these clocks are made by a German artist.

Doing a little more research, I discovered that this seems to be the handle used by an artist named Stefan Strumbel.

Whatever the case, the unusual and thoroughly modern Killer Cuckoo Clocks of Mr. Strumbel speak for themselves.

Normal Cuckoo Clocks make me chuckle because I actually no of no Germans who purchase or use these clocks in their homes. Instead, Cuckoo Clocks here in Germany seem to be a sort of cottage industry aimed at American tourists.  I’m sorry if I’m spilling some German state secrets here, but this really does seem to be the case. Just about every German national that I’ve come to know in this country thinks that traditional Cuckoo Clocks are pretty hideous, even the older generation!

Or, maybe you prefer a Killer Cuckoo Clock for your home in luxurious white with orange day-glo accents?

So, when you take a look at the Killer Cuckoo Clocks of Deine Heimat, a.k.a. Stefan Strumbel, you’ll see images of:

1. Skulls
2. Machine Guns
3. Wings
4. Bones
5. Hand Grenades
6. Hearts
7. Dead Deer
8. Wild Game
9. Blood

There’s likely a lot of irony intended in the name “Deine Heimat”, because, as I mentioned, I really don’t know any Germany who actually use Cuckoo Clocks at all. I think that Mr. Stumbel is perhaps playing around with the typical stereotypes floating around about Germans here, or perhaps simply making fun of them.

Whatever the case, the clocks are just cool, and kind of throw the typical stereotypes of what German culture is all about on its head, forcing us (and Germans, certainly) to reevaluate them.

You can find out more about the Killer Cuckoo Clocks from Deine Heimat at the Galerie Springmann in Freiburg, Germany.

The artist himself also has a blog online (”Deine Heimat”) on Blogspot here.

For the record, Stefan Strumbel also creates a lot of other great art that has nothing at all to do with Cuckoo Clocks.

But we’re an Alarm Clock Blog, so the clocks are obviously what we’ve chosen to write about.

Tags: clocks, Crazy Clocks, cuckoo, cuckoo clock, cuckoo clock history, cuckoo clocks, deine heimat, german artist, killer cuckoo clocks, killer cuckoos, stefan strumbel, strumbel

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Vadim Ryazanov from Baku, Azerbaijan has created Mr. Wake, a robotic rolling alarm clock.

Mr. Wake was created as part of the Mr. Basic V2.0 contest going on at the incredibly fabulous Let’s Make Robots website.

As you can see by taking a look at the photos of Mr. Wake, it’s a rolling robotic car with an alarm clock on its back.

The idea is that, when the alarm on Mr. Wake’s back goes off, he begins rolling around your apartment, forcing you to get out of bed to find him first, in order to be able to turn its alarm off. Of course, by the time you’ve done this, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be fully awake. There is no snooze button on Mr. Wake either (something that we approve of) so this further reinforces the fact that Mr. Wake will indeed wake you up!

Mr. Wake is kind of an alpha geek’s version of Clocky, which we’ve already written about.

Now, we don’t know if you noticed it in the video or not, but one of the things that makes Mr.Wake so cool is that it actually has an infra-red sensor on its back that, when the alarm goes off, propels the vehicle away from you whenever you attempt to grab it. This makes the process of turning off the alarm on Mr. Wake’s back much more difficult, further reinforcing the fact that, when you finally do succeed in turning this alarm clock off, it’ll be extremely likely that you’ll be 100% awake.

Another fascinating thing about Mr. Wake is that the frame of its vehicle has been created from the plastic tubes of about 20 different common pens. You know, the kind of pens that you use to jot down notes or do some drawing with! The pen tubes have been “welded” together and formed into place using a common household lighter. Now that’s ingenuity using common objects!

We think that Mr. Wake, the Rolling Robotic Alarm Clock is a great example of human inventiveness and congratulate Vadim on a job well done.

We hope to see more dazzling designs for offbeat alarm clocks in the future from you, Vadim – keep up the great work!

If you like robots, be sure and take a look at the Let’s Make Robots website for all kinds of wild and wacky robotic devices.

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Before I get into today’s post about a subject near and dear to me, Simpsons Alarm Clocks, first a quick word about the upcoming switch to daylight savings time in 2009.

If you live in Europe, you’ve already switched over to Daylight Savings Time, but if you live in the United States, don’t forget to fall back one hour this Sunday, November 1st at 2:00 a.m.

Most modern PCs automatically update their time settings to Daylight Savings Time online, and this is what enables you to watch the time switch live on Online Clock if you happen to be awake at this hour…just fire up Online Clock in your web browser, and the second that your computer updates its time settings to Daylight Savings Time, you’ll also see the new, correct time being listed on our online alarm clock.

But now to the real reason we’re here today: to showcase some of the killer Simpsons Alarm Clocks available out there!

While trying to find cool clocks to mention on our Facebook Fan Page, we began to notice that there are apparently tons of different Simpsons Alarm Clocks out there, and many of them are actually really neat.

For you, Dear Clock Fans, we’ve assembled a list of our favorites, in order from best to worst!

Simpsons Dome Alarm Clock
Bart and Homer find themselves entrapped within a curious glass dome housing an alarm clock in this hilarious scene right out of the Simpsons. Check it out as Marge attempts to break through the dome with a hammer and Lisa attempts to saw through the glass to free Homer and Bart.

Moe’s Tavern Cuckoo Clock
Moe’s Tavern is the place and Homer is the cuckoo. Homer pops out every hour on the hour to shout out the party cry ‘Woo Hoo’ and wave his fist in the air, as if to annouce that the party has commenced. Check out the dangling pendulums at the bottom which are actually tiny beer glasses.

Animated Homer Talking Clock
These are some of the things that the animated Homer Simpson figure in this cool alarm clock says to wake you up: “Only two things can get me out of bed, donuts and the possibility of donuts to come,” “Wake up – your breakfast is getting all cold and eaten,” and my favorite: “I discovered a meal between breakfast and lunch!” Notice how Homer’s left hand holds a hamburger and his right hand holds a glazed donut. Even the numerals on the clock dial have been replaced with images of food!

Donut Time
Not technically an alarm clock, this clock is still simple and very effective in its design: the revolving second hand has a donut affixed to it, which Homer’s eyes follows in 360 degrees! I think this clock just about sums up Homer’s motivation in life and it has a surprisingly hypnotizing effect on me…Mmmmm donuts!

The 12 Sounds of Homer Clock
In this clock Homer speaks twelve different witty sayings, and some of them are really good, such as “I gave my love a chicken…it had no bones (Mmmm, chicken)” and “English who needs that…I never go to England!” and “Marge, it takes two to lie: one to lie, and one to listen” and my favorite, “Donuts: is there anything they can’t do?” Please pay no attention to the man narrating this video. Despite a striking resemblance, it is not Homer Simpson.

Well, there you go, Simpsons fans. Which Simpsons Alarm Clock is your favorite?

As you can see, you don’t have to live in Springfield to possess a really groovy Simpson Alarm Clock. You just need to go to Amazon or eBay, buy one, and bring it home to you where you live.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this excursion into Homerland and wish you all pleasant dreams…of donuts.

Mmmm, donuts…

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Industrial Designer Dave Rollins from San Jose, California has created a line of offline digital clocks that resemble Online Clock…in a good way.

These clocks come in various styles and colors but all boast a digital numeral display that needs to be assembled by hand, just like puzzles.

In this way, these aren’t really clocks at all, but instead they’re signs and learning aids.

The clock of this kind that most strikingly resembles our online alarm clock is the Digits Clock:

The Digits Clock from Designer Dave Rollins bears a striking resemblance to Online Clock. Well, at least someone has good taste!

The Digits Clock is 19 inches wide and 7 inches high, so it’s actually pretty large in size.

In this next photo you can see what the Digits Clock has apparently been designed for: it’s supposed to be a teaching aid to help youngsters learn about clocks, time and how to tell the time using digital clocks. They learn about these subjects by recreating the time of the day themselves by putting together the pieces that make up the digital numerals of the clock.

By putting together the bits and pieces that construct the digital clock display, they learn how to tell the time from a digital clock:

Junior here is trying to put together his own version of online clock.

Did you know that OnlineClock.net is also frequently used in classrooms around the world as a teaching aid?

We often get emails from teachers who tell us that they use our online alarm clocks in their classrooms to teach youngsters about the subjects of clocks and time. Teachers and college professors also tell us that they like to project our clocks onto their classroom walls, using them to time tests and exams.

Thank you, teachers everywhere, for using our online alarm clocks – we’re very proud that you find our clocks useful in this way!

Surprisingly, while researching this subject and these great-looking clocks from Dave Rollins, we’ve found quite a few negative reviews of the Digits Clock. True, it has a price tag of about $100, and several reviewers have mentioned that this seems to be a steep price tag for something that doesn’t even tell the time.

But they seem to be missing the point about these clocks. These are obviously meant to be art works and teaching aids and not actual working clocks, and if $100 can be used to help several classes of kids better learn how to tell the time, then I think these products are very valuable.

One also has to keep in mind the fact that these digital clock products are probably being produced in very limited quantities, which unfortunately always serves to increase production costs.

Other clocks in the line of digital clock products from Dave Rollins serve other purposes.

These include the following:

1. Striking desk calendars showing the month of the year and day of the month
2. Digital clock signs designed for shop windows showing ‘Be Back at xx:xx’ Time, for when a shop is temporarily closed
3. Teaching aids, as previously mentioned
4. They’re all available in different color combinations and they look so great that they’d conceivably just look cool sitting on one of your shelves simply as works of art or as conversation pieces

More information on these interesting non-online clocks can be found on Mr. Rollins’ own website UseYourDigits.com.

All of Mr. Rollins’ digital clock products may be purchased online from Ponoko.com.

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Hey, Clock Fans and Halloween Fans,

On the first day of Halloween, my true love gave to me, a severed head in a cemetery…

We have a special treat for you now that the Halloween Holidays are just around the corner:  a Halloween Clock Radio!

We at Online Clock are crazy about Halloween, and that’s why we feel this time of year is the right time to do something special to celebrate our favorite holiday.

Hopefully all of you should already know that we created the world’s first web-browser based version of a clock radio.

One of the great things about our clock radio application is that it offers literally hundreds of free online radio stations that you can listen to, whenever you want, on your PC, Mac, laptop or netbook computer.

In our clock radio we have online radio stations organized according to about 20 different genres of music and talk, including everything from Techno to Country and Classical to Alternative. It’s cool and fun to listen to – give it a test-listen!

The only thing required is the free version of the RealPlayer plugin for your web browser. Most of you probably already have this plugin installed on your computer. (If not, no worries – there’s a download link located on the home page of our clock radio application itself.)

In honor of Halloween, our favorite holiday, we’re offering all of you reading this a special collection of Halloween Radio Stations.

That’s right, you can now listen to all kinds of groovy Halloween-themed music on our clock radio application, whenever you’re in the moody to get a little spooky.

Finally, to further get all of you in the mood for Halloween, we’ve included the song “Halloween” by the Misfits in this blog post. (Not familiar with this band? We highly recommend the classic album “Walk Among Us”, if you’re feeling adventuresome…)

If ever there was an official theme song for Halloween, this would be it.

Enjoy!

However you like to celebrate this holiday, we wish you lots of fun and…Happy Halloween !!!

From the makers of the Online Alarm Clock.

We’ll be howling at the moon right with you on October 31st…

AwwwwoooooOOOOOOOO

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My Spider Sense is tingling telling me it's time to...get up out of bed!

Hey, Clock Fans…

Our spider sense is tingling, and you know why? It’s because, while researching new material to share with our Facebook Fans on our Online Alarm Clock Facebook Page, we discovered that there are a heap ‘o different Spiderman Alarm Clocks out there.

In the past, while doing research for our Alarm Clock Blog and for our Facebook Page, we’ve discovered alarm clocks on just about any kind of subject or theme: Sonic the Hedgehog Alarm Clocks, Coca Cola Alarm Clocks, Mr. Peanut Alarm Clocks, Pirates of the Caribbean Alarm Clocks – you name it, if it exists or existed as a popular TV show, comic or film character, you can certainly purchase it as an Alarm Clock.

But why in the heck are there so many Spiderman Alarm Clocks out there?

Don’t get us wrong – we love Spiderman and especially Marvel Comics (though the recent purchase of Marvel Comics by Disney has us a little worried that the more adult comics will perhaps be made a little too clean-cut and sanitized in the future). But why is it that we’ve found up to a dozen different alarm clocks with a Spiderman theme?! That’s a whole lot of clocks, even for a popular web slinger who’s set out to save the planet!

Because there are so many Spiderman Alarm Clocks, and because several of them are really quite cool, we decided to collect some of the more interesting models here and present them all together to you, Clock Fans, in one blog post, making it easy for you to check them all out.

So, without much further ado, let us commence with attempting to create the most definitive Spider Man Alarm Clock post ever published on the world wide web!

Its Web swingin’ time!…I’m just your friendly neighborhood Spiderman…With great power comes great responsibility.

Those are some of the words of wisdom this Spiderman Alarm Clock says, when the alarm is activated. He has some cool web-slinging sound effects, too. This Spiderman figure stands atop a square pedestal with a neat spider motive on it, and the figure is nicely animated. Cool clock!

He couldn’t do anything with his eyes webbed shut, Ha, Ha, Ha, the Green Goblin thought he had it. His time is running out (referring to the Green Goblin).

This Spiderman Alarm Clock has a personal grudge to settle with the Green Goblin. He stands atop a rotating triangle-like city scene and it appears as if the alarm consists of various Spiderman sayings that are rotated randomly, each time the alarm goes off. Unlike the Spiderman figure in the previous clock, this figure isn’t really animated. Instead, it’s the round base on which Spidey stands that moves around. Bonus points for the cool web-slinging, whip-like sound effects in this clock!

Spiderman, Help!…My Spiderman senses are tingling…Then come and get me, if you can, Spiderman…It’s Web-swing time…You’ll never catch me, Web-head, Ha, ha, ha, ha.

A little more unique than the other two, this Spiderman Alarm Clock takes place in a Clock Tower. The Green Goblin goads Spiderman into climbing up the building’s face and going after him, and there is dialog back and forth between Spiderman and the Green Goblin. The fact that there’s a dialog back and forth between Spidey and his arch nemesis, combined with the fact that there is an actual chase scene here, makes this clock a little special: it’s kind of like a mini scene out of a Spiderman comic or film. So far, this one’s our favorite!

Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can…Spins a web, any size, catches thieves just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!

This Spiderman Alarm Clock looks nice but unfortunately isn’t animated in any way. No matter:  it redeems itself by playing the groovy Spiderman theme song (remember this song from the animated Spiderman Saturday morning cartoon series?). Still, we like the Ramones’ cover version of this song much better. And points off for the total lack of animation in this clock.

And our collection of Spiderman Alarm Clocks wouldn’t be complete without mentioning…the Lexibook Spiderman Alarm Clock Radio.

Besides being a fully functioning alarm clock radio, this cool clock projects the Spiderman symbol onto your ceiling in the dark, together with the current time.  That’s pretty neat. Looking like a giant Spiderman head, this is one killer clock radio!

You can find a video about the Spiderman Alarm Clock radio, together with information on all the other clocks mentioned here, in our Spiderman Alarm Clock Video Playlist which we’ve created on YouTube. If you’re a true Clock Fan, or a Spiderman Fan, or both, you’ll want to check it out.

So there you have it, Clock Fans: several different Spiderman Alarm Clocks, and each of them very different and unique.

Personally, we like them all and that’s why we wrote this blog post…if it’s not fun for us to write about, it’s probably not a whole lot of fun for you to read…so we’re keeping it real.

Several of these alarm clocks are surely no longer manufactured.

For this reason, your best bet on buying them might be on eBay, if you no longer find them on Amazon.

We wish all of you happy hunting, either for yourselves or for the aspiring young web slingers in your families!

Now, where did that Green Goblin run off to?!

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Why is this man laughing? It's because he's just read this blog post about the all-time top Wake Up Gags!

People just don’t like waking up.

Today we curse our alarm clock. But back in the days of dinosaurs and cavemen, we probably cursed out the sun when it woke us up from a sound night’s sleep early in the dawn hours.

The reason why is that, it’s just so nice to sleep…to relax and to rejuvenate ourselves. Being awakened again into consciousness is a jarring experience, kind of like a slap in the face or a blast of cold water.

This all means there are a lot of possibilities for pranks when it comes to waking people up.

It’s difficult enough not to be startled by the sound of your normal alarm clock going off, so we can easily imagine how startling it is to be awakened by even more jarring noises and events!

Let’s take an alarm clock that gives you an electric shock when you turn it off as an example, just to get us warmed up:

But enough with the flowery preamble folks…let’s cut to the action, our raison d’etre for this blog post, which is to list the Top 10 Wake Up Gags!

And here we mean the funniest, best, meanest, cruelest, most diabolical wake up gags of all time, of course.

You’ve seen ‘em. You’ve chuckled at ‘em. And for you, dear Clock Fans, we’ve assembled the best of them together in one big succulent Alarm Clock Blog Post (what you’re reading now). Yes, we’re talking about those funny pranks you can play on loved ones, friends and even perhaps perfect strangers in which someone gets a very rude awakening.

So here is Online Clock’s official list of the Top Ten Wake Up Gags, in order of hilarity.

By that we mean that the best/funniest of these gags can be found right at the start of this list:

1. The Military Coup in Your Bedroom Wake Up Gag * – in which an unsuspecting sleeper is awakened by anti aircraft artillery going off in his bedroom.
2. The Send Them Down the Water Slide Wake Up Gag * – in which unwitting sleepers are sent sliding down a water slide while still sleeping.
3. The Wake Up To Being Hit By the Mob Wake Up Gag * – a sleeper is awakened to experience his very own “death” by a mob hit man squad.
4. The Wake Up to Being Dragged by a Horse Wake Up Gag * – a very startled sleeper wakes up to being dragged through the mud by a horse.
5. The Firecracker On The Ass Wake Up Gag * – self-explanatory. Another example can be found here.
6. The Dozen of Hidden Alarm Clocks Wake Up Gag – a sleeper wakes up to dozens of different alarms peeping around him, and must find where the various alarm clocks have all been hidden. Can be viewed as a video here.
7. The Fart In His Face Wake Up Gag – a hideous but true gag in which you wake up to a black cloud surrounding your face. View at your own discretion (not for the squeamish) here.
8. The Blue Man Group Guy Wake Up Gag – a creative brainstorm that shows the Blue Men are in real life scary as hell. Watch it here.
9. The Shocking Alarm Clock Wake Up Gag – displayed in the first video above, a timeless classic of the Wake Up Gag genre! (See video at the top of this post.)
10. The Set the Clock Two Hours Later and Make him Think he’s Late For Work Wake Up Gag – so simple, yet so deviously effective…

* – All Gags marked with an asterisk above (all of which made the Top Five, coincidentally) can be viewed in the video below. We highly recommend you watch this one, it’s absolutely hilarious!

So there you have it, Clock Fans: those are our tips as the Top Ten Wake Up Gags.

But please, don’t try these stunts at home.

We wouldn’t like anyone to get hurt.

After all, we want all of you to continue being our customers

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Hey, Clock Fans – The Alarm Clock Speaks!

That’s right…we decided it was time to let our Online Alarm Clock speak for itself for a change, so we decided to conduct an interview.

But not just any interview…because this is the first ever interview with–you guessed it–the world’s most popular Online Alarm Clock, OnlineClock.net !

(No, we haven’t gone completely insane. We’re just trying to have some fun here. If you don’t like it, please return to your television set.)

So, without further ado, let’s begin with our Alarm Clock Interview.

The following is a transcript of the actual interview which you can watch in the video above.

And we hope you’ll watch it, because we sure had a lot of fun creating it for all of you.

Hi, My name’s Tom and I’m here today to conduct an interview…with an alarm clock! And not just any alarm clock. I’m talking about the alarm clock that you can find online at OnlineClock.net.

And, OnlineClock.net is America’s original Online Alarm Clock and today we’re going to interview him…

Hellllo, Mr. Online Alarm Clock. How are you doing today?

Oh, hello. How are you doing?

Well, thank you for taking the time for our interview. We have a few questions we’d like to ask you.

OK. Go ahead, you know, I’m just hanging around here anyway. Always hanging around here….ah, always online you know…

OK, well ah, well thanks anyway for taking the time to answer our questions!

The first question we have for you is:  what is it like being America’s most popular Internet Alarm Clock?

Well, it’s good, you know? People know me. They use me. They come to visit me and they find me…very helpful. So…I feel like I’m doing good, you know?

I like it.

Well, that sounds like a very positive attitude.

But, despite all that, is it always easy being an Alarm Clock?

Do you feel that people always really appreciate everything that you do?

Well, umm…when I wake people up from a good night’s sleep…they’re not always so happy at first, uhh…because everybody likes a good night’s sleep.

And sleeping long.

And sleeping late.

Sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.

But – I’m just doing my job when I wake ‘em up, you know?

Ahhh, sometimes you might think it’s a dirty job…but somebody’s gotta do it…

That’s the way I look at it, you know?

Well, ahh, that’s a nice point of view.

But tell us, what about the working hours with your job being an online alarm clock?  As we understand it, you’re online and available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. What’s that like? Don’t you ever get exhausted?!

Well, there aren’t any Trade Unions for Alarm Clocks…at least none that I know of.

So, uhhh, I’ll just keep plugging in there, doin’ my job and the way I see it is:

If people keep using me, uhhh, I’m happy, you know?

I like waking people up!

I like reminding people about stuff so…yeah…come, visit me and set an alarm and I’ll keep doing my job, no problem!

Well, Mr. Online Alarm Clock, we’re very happy that you took this time to talk to us.

And if anyone wishes to visit Mr. Online Alarm Clock, you can do so at any time, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

He can be found at OnlineClock.net.

So there you have it, ladies and germs: the website that brought you the world’s first Online Alarm Clock has now also brought you the world’s first…interview with an Online Alarm Clock!

And the world may never be the same.

Please, drive safely.

And return to your homes.

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You know how hard it is to wake up in the morning, especially when you’ve slept late.

Naturally, alarm clocks are made for those who cannot wake up by themselves. If you’re one of these persons, you know what we’re talking about all too well, and this blog post will be just the right thing for you. Because here we’re going to give you some simple Waking Up Strategies.

Some just neglect the jarring sound coming from their alarm clock while others hit the evil snooze button. Once they hear the alarm clock ringing again, however, they have to go through the process all over again, because they know that it’s still time for them to wake up.

Some persons wake up immediately, as soon as they hear the alarm sound of their alarm clock. There is no denying that there are mornings when you find it easy to wake up with the help of an alarm clock and there are other mornings when you don’t even care how many times your alarm clock rings: you just don’t want to get up, out of bed!

In order to find it easy to get up, out of bed in the morning, it is very important for you to go to sleep the night before at a reasonable hour.

Yes, it sounds like the obvious answer to your problems, and it probably is, but it still should not be overlooked: if you find it difficult waking up each morning, then perhaps you’re simply not getting enough sleep. To correct this, try going to bed earlier.

If you do go to bed earlier, you’ll sleep longer and will wake up the next morning feeling refreshed and energized.

Another tip in order for you to wake up easily is this: every time you wake up in the morning, think of the things you need to accomplish on that day.

It seems funny, but it’s a fact that working persons, usually wake up earlier on pay day.

The message here is clear: if you have something to look forward to every day, you’ll have ample reason to jump out of your bed in the morning and get going.

Finally, here is a simple check list of Waking Up Strategies or tips that might help you wake up more easily:

1. Go to bed earlier.
2. Be sure that you’re getting enough sleep in general.
3. Watch your stress levels:  have you been able to actually relax during your sleep, or are you suffering from too much stress? If the latter is the case, take measures to relieve your stress levels.
4. Place your alarm clock farther away from your bed. If it rings, you’ll then have to get up out of bed to turn it off.
5. Have something to look forward to the next day, so that you’ll be motivated to get up.
6. Try changing the temperature in your bedroom. For some people, cold temperatures makes them want to hibernate. For others, warm temperatures makes them lazy. Try to find the idea bedroom temperature so that you’ll wake up easier and feeling more refreshed.
7. Try leaving your window blinds partially open so that sunlight will come in through the windows of your bedroom once the day begins. Almost everyone finds it easier to wake up when there’s a bit of natural sunlight in the room.

So there you have some very simple strategies to help you wake up easier in the morning. Although they’re basically just common sense principles, we believe that they might be helpful. At any rate, we certainly hope so!

Alarm clocks are very useful but you must also remember that you should develop your own self-discipline to make your body ready for each day.

Always believe that you have something especially significant worth waking up for, even if it’s just enjoying the day at hand.

In this manner, you’ll be motivated to wake up and getting up out of bed will be easier.

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Hello, Boys and Ghouls and welcome to our favorite time of year…the Countdown to Halloween!

Yes, the Countdown to Halloween has begun and before we begin presenting to you our special OnlineClock.net collection of Scary Halloween Clocks perhaps we should explain to you why Halloween holds a special place in the hearts of the creators of the world’s original Online Alarm Clock.

Back when we were kids, Halloween was the non-”goody goody” answer to Christmas.

Sure, we love Christmas too, but it sure rocks to have a holiday that’s not all about sweetness and light…and as a perfect anecdote to all of the bland over-sentimentality so often associated with Christmas.

Halloween is “bad”, dark, evil (in a fun and non-serious way) and just plain cool. If ever there was a punk rock holiday, it’d be Halloween. In a word, Halloween just..rocks.

Our best memories of Halloween include watching horror movie marathons, dressing up in our own home-made costumes, visiting a “haunted house” or two (spook house attractions set up to scare the wits out of you around the Halloween holiday) and, of course, eating tons of the kinds of food you loved the most but were always told to eat in moderation, if at all.

When we went out trick or treating, we used pillowcases for treat bags, because we found that they simply carried tons more candy and sweets than any other kind of bag you could take with you…and, being made out of cloth, they simply didn’t break. It was a yearly ritual for us, during and after trick or treating, to eat so much of the free candy we’d received that we’d inevitably get stomach aches and spend half of the evening in the bathroom as a result.

Halloween is indeed our favorite holiday, and, to get all of you into that Halloween Spirit, we’ve scoured the web to present you a collection of the Scariest Halloween Clocks.

So, without further ado, here’s the official Online Clock Collection of Scary Halloween Clocks, presented for your fright and enjoyment. To find out more information on any of these clocks, just go to Amazon.com and search for the title of each clock! All clocks were found on Amazon and were actually available to purchase at the time that we wrote this.

Scary Clock Number One:  The Evil Skull Pendulum Clock

This attractively spooky pendulum clock runs on one AA battery and is 16 inches long. The coolest thing about this clock is the demon skull on the pendulum that swings back and forth with the time. Also, check out those killer demon horns at the top of the clock. Ghoulish!

Scary Clock Number Two:  The Haunted Clock

Scare your friends and make new enemies with The Haunted Clock, a genuine wood clock which also has a skull pendulum (sorry, no demon skull this time) but which has a slick bat-shaped window where the pendulum appears beneath the clock face. This clock requires a bit of assembly on your part. For trendy vampires of all ages!

Scary Clock Number Three:  The Rob Zombie Halloween Movie Michael Myers Wall Clock

For us, nothing says “scary” like serial killers.  For this reason, if you really want to raise a fright on Halloween, consider decorating your home with the Rob Zombie Halloween Movie Michael Myers wall clock. As you can see, it picures a prominent photo of everyone’s favorite mad slasher, Michael Myers. From what we’ve heard, this clock is actually scarier than the film itself (sorry, Rob!).

Scary Clock Number Four:  The Grim Reaper Clock

Who knows how to party better on Halloween than the Angel of Death himself?! For that reason, we’ve included this clock in our collection. The Grim Reaper Clock displays a hideously skeletal grim reaper figure holding a clock…perhaps just to remind you that your time on earth is running out?! The Grim Reaper clock is a polyresin quartz clock six inches in height.

Scary Clock Number Five: The Misfits Wall Clock

“Twenty Eyes in my head…Twenty eyes in my hhhhead…they’re all the same!” If Halloween had an official band, it would undoubtedly be The Misfits (and please, from the time back when Glenn was the lead singer). You can show off your love of creepy music and Halloween with this Misfits Wall Clock, which displays the official “Crimson Ghost” Misfits logo character in black and white.

Scary Clock Number Six: The 13 Hour Tubular Grandfather Clock

What will you do when the clock strikes the 13th hour – die of fright? Well, this clock and the last one below it are more movie and set props than commercial clocks, apparently, but they’re so cool that we had to include them in our list of Scary Clocks. And, if you definitely are interested in obtaining one of these prop clocks, simply visit the website addresses that appear in the videos for more information.

You can’t deny it: ever since “Tubular Bells” became popular as the theme song from the classic fright film “The Exorcist”, there is simply something spooky and uncanny about the sound of tubular bells, as used for the chimes in this Halloween clock.

Please remind me not to purchase this clock for my living room.

Scary Clock Number Seven: The Haunted Props Halloween Grandfather Clock:

Yes finally, we have the Haunted Halloween Grandfather Clock, which again is actually a kind of movie or show business prop. I think you’ll agree with me when I say that this Halloween Clock is ghastly indeed. So ghastly that we cannot imagine having such a clock in our own house – this would scare the heck out of us, in the middle of the night!

But if you’re planning on turning your own home into a “haunted house” to scare the neighbors on Halloween, then this scary clock might just be de rigeur.

(In the process of writing this blog post we must’ve heard the background music from this last clock video about five times and all we can say is, “Stop it! Stop it!”, because it really is strangely gruesome. Try listening to it alone in the dark in the middle of the night, and I think you’ll see what we mean.)

So, we hope you’ve enjoyed our little presentation of Scary Halloween Clocks.

As you can tell, we intentionally did not include the cutesy and cuddly Martha Stewart Halloween clocks containing pumpkin heads that your mom would probably like.

We’re serious about Halloween, so we instead just cut right to the real deal, and attempted to show you a collection of clocks that are all actually scary in one way or another.

We look forward to counting down the time until Halloween on October 31st with all of you.

Until then we say: stay cool, Clock Ghouls!

P.S. – Does anyone recognize the clock that appears in the background of our logo at the top of this blog post? It’s a drawing representing the clock from Disney’s classic “Haunted Mansion” attraction. Just a little Halloween Clock trivia for all of you…

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