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So I just moved into a new apartment. For the most part it is working fine. The rent is ridiculously cheap, which is nice. But I'm sharing the room with a new roommate. And she's a really deep sleeper. So she sets like three alarms and half the time sleeps through them anyway , so I have to get up and shake her unless I want the alarm to be going for a good five minutes.

This would be less frustrating if she didn't leave for work at 6AM. It isn't so bad right now because I have the week off and can go back to sleep. But once classes start again, I know it is going to be really irritating.

The thing is, she's been in the place for 2 years. And it doesn't really feel like my place yet. She's had her system down for years, and I don't really feel like I can ask her to do something different. So I'm not really sure what to do.

Could she look into vibrating alarms, that go under your pillow? My housemate is deaf and has one, and she complains about how strong the vibration is, so hopefully it would work for your roommate.

Hopefully she'll be understanding and you guys can come to some arrangement, because that does sound like a difficult situation.

+1 for this. I swear, roommate alarm issues are some of the most annoying roommate problems.

I am also deaf, and highly recommend the bedshaker alarm. Some models also come with the ability to hook up to a bedside lamp and/or a landline phone. So, if the mattress shaking off the boxspring doesn't wake you, the annoying flashing light will. (Esp. at 6am when it's still dark enough that will bolt you awake.) And/or you can set an alarm on YOUR phone to send your roomie a phone call at such and such a time (triggering the phone, which triggers the bedshaker), as you sleep in peace.

Perhaps I am a mean person, but I also roomed in a dorm with someone who would sleep through her alarm like that and resist me waking her up. So after several weeks of that, I just started turning her alarm off after it had gone off for a bit and going back to bed. Made me so mad; it wasn't my job to cajole her awake like I was her mommy because she was too stoned to get up like a normal person.

/rant

all this to say, the roommate needs to do something different. You waking her up is not acceptable. Her alarm going off interminably is not acceptable.

Oh man, so much this. I get up each time my alarm goes off in every attempt not be that roommate, and we don't even share a room.

Now I'm creating an elaborate plan as to how I would react to having that roommate...

Ahahahhahaaaa.

Yes!

Once we lived next door to some people who would just let their alarm go off for hours and we could hear it in our bedroom, and I wanted to kill them. I decided when we left that apartment complex I would never ever live in an apartment again because of the thin walls and lack of privacy.

So much this. We stayed with Cat's Aunt for a month or so when he first got out of the Army, getting jobs and finding a place to live that was near out works. Her daughter, son-in-law and their kid lived wit her, too, in the finished basement and their alarm would go off an hour before we had to get up, local talk radio turned up as *high as it would go* and it would just...play.

I wanted to kill them, and i cannot imagine doing that with a toddler, since they would inevitably wake up, too. So frustrating!

People are inconsiderate; I think that's what the world boils down to. I am consistently grateful I don't have lasers for eyeballs because I would have rid the world of lots of inconsiderateness over the years. LOL

She is an adult, I presume. It's her responsibility to figure out a system that works for her, not yours to be her mother and wake her up. Clearly the system is not working for her or she wouldn't be sleeping through the alarms on a regular basis.

She needs to look into vibrating alarms or something else that isn't going to wake you up if it keeps going for five minutes.

I'm a deep sleeper too, but I agree with what everyone else is saying, you should not be the one waking her up.

My method is to put the alarm far enough away from my bed stand that I physically have to get out of bed to turn it off, otherwise I turn it off without realizing and half-consciously. Now, unfortunately this probably won't work as well a solution in your situation. Maybe you could get ear plugs (and vibrating alarm if you need to wake up) for yourself? Sorry I don't have any better solutions.

Talk to her about it. Talk to her about it politely and as soon as possible. You don't want to wait until it gets to the point where you want to strangle her every morning. It's a good precedent to start early anyways.

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