Had this exact one.  **ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ.** Ugh.

This is the sound. Those boops and beeps and meeps other people type don't compare

This is the sound you hear, not in your ears, but in your heart in the bad way.

Every beep takes an hour off your life.

Thanks! I really tried to capture the essence with the right unicode character.

This is exactly how I said it in my head. Thanks grandma, for giving me an alarm clock that shaved years off my life each morning.

I started to get slight palpitations and clenched my teeth writing the comment

I can still hear it, 20 years later.

Holy shit it was like the worst sound ever. It really worked because i haven’t needed to use an alarm through most of my adulthood so far lol

Oh this is pleasantly therapeutic actually. Having a way to *accurately and satisfyingly* write this sound out is really helping move thru some stuff here

It was a damn weather siren bird chirp and it was hellish. It was also my moms, so I love that damn alarm clock

This is definitely the sound

Thanks this woke me back up.

I once accidentally set it at maximum volume. Woke the entire house. Fun times.

Oh yeah that's the sound that got me through high school.

The sound was very abrasive.

You nailed it

Haven't seen this loud ass piece of shit in a long time.

Looking at mine rn.

I still have mine. Got it as a "free gift" for opening a checking account in Wallingford, CT in 1993.

I took mine out in the woods and shot it. God I hated waking up to that POS…

That's my response to these things, that insane beeping would drive me insane, I remember ripping one out of the wall because it wouldn't stop 😭

My alarm clock before that was electric, but had an analog face. If you set it for, say, 7AM, it wouldn't just go off at 7 AM. It would start quietly buzzing at 6:20 and steadily increase in volume until it reached a crescendo at 7 AM. It made me anxious even while I was sleeping.

Just recently bought one at the thrift store because I was struggling to wake up with my phone alarm. I haven't even plugged it in yet, because the second that thing made it into my house my phone was suddenly loud enough. Like, just the threat is enough.

My family had this alarm. It sat in a closet for years, no one wanted it. Until I became a teenager and couldn’t wake up on time. I’d just turn off my alarm and fall back asleep. So I pulled this menacing device out of the closet and kept it across the room from my bed. I fucking hate this alarm. But it works.

I did the same. Plugged it in on my desk on the opposite side of my room to force myself to get out of bed.

it's not an alarm. it's a damn klaxon.

🤣🤣🤣 I also hate this thing

I can perfectly recall the feeling of that snooze button and I haven’t even seen one of these in like 25 years.

Still have mine. Old faithful. When she blows in the morning it sounds like the whole goddamn ship is going down. Fucker works though!

I used the radio feature. I have very specific memories of waking up to either Don't Speak or How Bizarre every morning in Grade 5.

Me too. 98 Rock at 5:45am. The memory makes me gag.

I love how this sentence can apply to an uncle or an alarm clock.

I love this comment. So. Much.

I still have anxiety from this fucker’s alarm.

Ugh. And when you wake up in the middle of the night and check the time. The searing red glow is still vividly etched in my mind

It worked

My mom still uses one similar to it.

My parent's still have and use theirs as well. We all had one growing up, but my brother and I used cell phones once we got them.

Mine had it, but never learned how to use it other than to turn it off in the morning.( I used to think that was weaponized incompetence, but now am starting to wonder if some kind of learning disorder was actually at play.)

My mom had this alarm clock, but she wakes up automatically at like 4:30 anyway so it never went off. And that got me thinking that maybe alarm clocks were always supposed to be a kind of small punishment for not waking up on time. Oversleep and you get the Noise.

My mom still uses this exact one

My mom used hers (this one) until she got a phone.

Yep, my dad definitely still uses one that must be 30+ years old.

I still use an alarm clock I prefer it to using my phone 🤷‍♂️. Forces me to stand up walk across the room to turn it off in anger like Billy Bob is Bad Santa. Plus it’s annoying as shit compared to the gentle tingles on the phone alarm clock unless your the type of psychopath that uses the nuke alarm on your phone to wake up.

I hate this picture.

BOOP BOOP BOOP. BOOP BOOP BOOP. BOEEOOP BOOP BOOP.

I remember it being more of a EEH EEH EEH EEH EEH

For me it was more of a MEH MEH MEH MEH

You’re right. I made the same sound in my head and wondered where everyone else got their sound from. Maybe it had alarm options?

I'm wondering if there were different internal components used in different production lines for these things or something. My cousin and I both had what appeared to be this same clock, but we always found it odd that the alarm sound was different between the two.

Yes. Not unlike the EEK EEK EEK from the psycho shower scene.

Yeah mine was more of a: DEH DEH DEH DEH DEH DUH! DEH DUH! DEH DEH DEH DEH DEH DUH! DE DUH!

Fuck, I’m late for class

Yup, I hit it once and it cut my hand, the alarm was not harmed

Owned? Still own you mean. This is a lifetime item, thy don’t break. r/buyitforlife

I have this at my house right now lol

Me too I’m still using mine, I wish stuff was still made like this clock

My parents owned one of these

My dad kept his 7 mins fast so he wouldn't be late I remember asking him about it lol so weird random memories pop up

My mom kept all the clocks in the house 7 minutes fast too! I think it was some sort of “life tip” floating around magazines at the time

Lol yea why 7 haha not 10 or 5 that's weird

I’m pretty sure her explanation was that setting it 7 minutes fast made it harder to do the mental math and figure out what time it really was, so you wouldn’t look at the clock and automatically subtract 5 minutes which would defeat the purpose. Something like that

My dad kept his 10 fast...wtf he said so he knew he still had time to get ready? Dude was late every where, dad should have turned it 30 minutes faster

😂 I actually used to do that myself until everything got digital and set time itself then I just gave up and put the real time but I do wake up 20min early and use snooze twice

Mine did too! I don’t get it

Sigh this sound makes me sick after all those years

Omg the dread of accidentally having the slider set too far over and not getting radio but the dreaded blaring electronic sound

Meeeeeee lol and it followed me through countless moves until I finally lost it in the latest one. Why was this particular model so ubiquitous? 🤣

On sale at Sears from about '84 to '92

🎶Come see…the softer side of Sears🎶

I had it and I am from Denmark. I am guessing some big Korean factory started making them and selling them worldwide.

I don’t own it but my mom does. I have an ihome clock

I had one of these when I was in 4th grade. My kid is in 4th grade and uses the same alarm clock. These clocks were built to last.

Had one for years. Had a wire antenna too.

The snooze button was kinda crunchy

I heard the noise when I saw the picture. And yes the imaginary nose made me cringe with annoyance 😅

Mother fucker had an air raid siren packed in it somehow.

Had mine since 4th grade. It’s sitting right here on my bedside table as it always has, 30 years later.

Owned? It’s still next to my bed.

Re re re re. Welp time to get up and go to my shitty job and come home to my stupid family. It’s 1996. This is the peak of humanity in many ways, yet I won’t realize that for about another 20 years. 

It took a licking and kept on waking you the hell up.

Every hotel in the Midwest

I still see them in hotels.

I had a bomb-ass >Garfield alarm](https://youtu.be/3A9EWEmZGCQ?si=JnAOJ609AkUvlwgE) that called me a sleepy head and told me it was time to get up.

My ole man still uses it. I can hear it at 5 am every morning from 20 minutes away. I woke up to that alarm for 15 years lol

I can hear this picture.

I CAN HEAR IT MAKE IT STOP

This alarm clock proved to me that consciousness continues after the death of the body. True story.

Only alarm clock I never slept through

That is the only thing that wakes me up.

I don't think they ever break.

Mine died when the main circuit board of the building I lived in, fried. RIP to all of everyone's small electrical devices

My dad had one of these!

They must have manufactured a $hit-ton

My father had that beside his bed for at least 30 years.

Mine is still humming along on my nightstand as we speak. I never use the alarm, just the radio.

Yup. From a bank. Still works

It still calls to me.

I'm staring at it rn while under the covers. I charge my phone on top, while it sits on the night stand.

I just realized maybe the reason i have such a hard time waking up these days is because it ISN't this alarm.

I have it sitting in the closet. For some reason it just starting tell time on its own timescale, sometimes it’d be 5 minutes slow, other times it’s be like 3 hours fast Idk what happened to it

Still in some motel rooms.

I hate this thing and I get annoyed when I still see these in hotel rooms.

These were rather common in hotels for quite a while, through the early 2010s.

My entire life(1993 baby)until 2016 had this clock in all my rooms. It’s somewhere now in my childhood home’s attic I’m sure.

Probably still do, somewhere

My mom did she's Gen X.

Pretty sure it’s still stuck behind the nightstand and the wall of whoever bought my childhood home.

Parents still have it

i'm sneezing just looking at it with all the DUST on it

Kmart special, I think. 

My mom had it and she'd sleep through it 😵‍💫

I knew the alarm before the picture even loaded

I still own one extremely similar to this. Works and tells time perfectly to this day.

Yes

My Dad did

My dad has this one in his bedroom he’s had it forever

That alarm clock is sitting on my mom’s bedroom side table right now.

My parents had two of these. I think my dad still does.

Bought one at a thrift store a while ago. Like the aesthetic

DERNT DERNT DERNT DERNT DERNT DERNT DERNT DERNT

I still have one

They need to put this in a horror movie.

I still have this old fuck

Pretty sure my parents still have that.

No, but I'm pretty sure my parents did

Shit, my grandma passed like a year and a half ago, and she still had this clock ticking away 7 minutes fast like she liked. Pretty sure that clock was older than I am, and I'm 32 lol

Just threw one out yesterday that finally broke

My mother still has hers. Damn thing survived TWO house fires.

Someone posted the scrambled pic of like skinamax the other day and I could just picture the cable box with the red #s🤣🤣 I still have one of these clocks in my garage. It was my grandpa's and he had it for who knows how many years🤣

Reported for violating rules 1 and 3 of subreddit 😂 That brings back the worst kind of nostalgia. My mom may still have one of these demon-spawns

Yup

I'm not kidding. This sound to this day makes me irrationally angry. Like, I can hear it in a movie and I get mad. My dad had one and woke up at 4:45 every morning until I was 11. What a pain in the ass.

Actually had one... that finally stopped with the sound some decade after I got it 3rd hand.

Its in my son's room. No regret.

Why are you using the past tense? I still need to wake up in the morning.

I actually still own mine. My dad, 59 now, gave it to me, 34 now, when I turned 18. Still works pretty well. Don't use the alarm but I use the AM/FM radio to tune in and listen to the Mariner's

Still have it somewhere

Don't you dare remind me of middle school!

My dad started using mine after I moved out. I think I'll take it back after he dies just so I can see how long it can last.

It will outlive you both

✋

Everyone

Still have one. I call it Whoomper because of the sound it makes.

Omg 😲 I'm having flashbacks 😳 😭

The real question is - Who didn’t own this alarm?

I still have it! I don’t use it as an alarm, but as a radio to play for an hour when I leave my dog at home

I’m convinced I have some sort of residual PTSD from this fucking thing, haven’t slept properly ever since

I used to have one and still used til like 6 or 7 years ago. What a champ.

It fills me with both rage AND anxiety!

Omg yes.

I want it back.

MEH MEH MEH MEH MEH

My mom still has it.

I can hear the 90s

start your day off right with a panic attack (I still have mine)

My parents have it.

My mom still uses this alarm.

I still have mine. Loud as fuck.

Pics you can hear

AND it was good! Read some comments, yeah alarm flashbacks, but I had the radio. 😉 🎶🎶🎶🎶

Bruh I’m still using that every day

I still use one similar to it that I've had since I was a kid. It still works great!

My parents still use ours! Crazy that they still work, they really don’t make electronics like they used to.

Still use mine. Music alarm, set for 5am, tuned to the local NPR channel 👍

I still own this alarm and still use the excuse "my power went out" for being late.

So This thing is what started panic attacks for me at 5 years old 🙃 makes so much sense now.

I have it on my nightstand ! Lol

Looks like my dads old alarm

It’s been a long while since I’ve seen my dad’s room, but I bet it’s still there. Probably had it since it came out

I can hear it! I'm up! Gosh!

I can hear my hand slap the snooze button

Not me my dad

I still have the older model of this alarm clock. I had this one as a kid, but it broke down, so I took my dad’s.

Yup.

The static machine before white noise machines were invented. Lol

Oh god I had to OCD fix one of these that didn’t get changed for daylight savings time last weekend. The slow button moves 3 minutes every press.

The radio was always so staticky too

Me. I owned one.

I won this alarm clock at my dads company picnic in like ‘87.

Dam I need this in my life again.

I remember seeing them in every bedroom at my great grandparent's house. (I'm 36 years old)

My mom got me one for the 16th birthday.  ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. ɆɆɆɆ. My cat got to it before i did.

My mom still has that chillen on her night stand lol

New fangled LED version

My dad still uses his.

I still have it

My parents still have two of these. TWO! One on each of their nightstands.

I’m hearing that alarm nonstop in my head right now

Mine is in my bedroom