All you do is stick your alarm clock as furthest away possible from your bed as you can and set it. That way, when it goes off, you'll be forced to get out of bed to switch it off. Unless you're one of those really sleep desperate people who'd leap out of bed, hit off snooze and then jump back into bed this should work ok. I always thought that the most common problem was just dangling your arm over the side of the bed to turn off the alarm, and this, making you get out, beats it.
I mean, it worked for me: here I am, six something am in the morning, bursting to share my success with you all! Heh heh heh (:
Oh, and this works best if you've one of those alarms that get louder and LOUDER if you don't switch them off right away. && also; if you have a normal clock (and by that, I mean a non digital clock - the one with the hands and numbers --> is that called an analogue clock?), when you put it further away then the annoying ticking noise of the second hand is further away, and less noise means a better night's sleep ^_____^ Wait, unless you're one of those people who find rhythmic noises like clock ticking theraputic and they actually help you fall asleep, but whatever, let's not go into specifics.
Anyway, the crab stayed there for a couple of years when it finally fell of and curled up and pretty much died, it was so old. And I chucked it in the bin. It was sad. BUT despite the fact that the crab was gone, its longering presence remained - a dark crab shaped smudge of dirt on the light switch pad. You know when you stick a sticker somewhere, and where you peel it off, it leaves that mark? Sometimes you get the mark with glue as well. Anyway, the point being that the crab was gone, but it's memory - a sticky crab shaped dirt patch - remained.
