Snooze buttons, an unnecessarily bad design

Do you stay in bed five minutes longer for half an hour?

An alarm clock furiously ringing. — Make it stop! Give me five more minutes of that sweet, sweet sleep…
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Of course it’s nicer to stay in my warm bed instead of getting up and starting the day. And five minutes can’t hurt, can they? Just five, nice minutes…

But when I finally get up, I regret having snoozed so often. I set that time for a reason. If I had the time, I could have set it later. But I wanted to get up now, not in five minutes.

Yes, snoozing feels nice in the moment, but I actually don’t want to be tempted. But virtually every alarm clock has a snooze button, so it’s hard to escape.

How to fix it

Don’t have a snooze button.

The job of an alarm clock is to wake people up, not to let them sleep five minutes longer.