Would You Rather Save Sleep or Time?

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“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” ~ Leo J. Burke

Are you feeling a little sluggish today? That happens after Daylight Savings Time (DST) when we “spring ahead” and lose an hour of sleep. Chase McFadden gave DST the old what for in yesterday’s post. He offered this encouragement ala one of those well-dressed motivational speakers:

“Face it: that lost hour of sleep is going to plague you for days, if not weeks.”

I didn’t say he was a good motivational speaker, but he sure is funny. Chase also acknowledged the #1 most important tip to getting a good night’s sleep, and that is “Don’t have children. Ever.”

My oldest sibling (Sister Sarcastic) can relate. By the calculations of her and my bro-in-law they’ve actually been getting negative hours of sleep for a while courtesy of 3 kids and carousel of insomnia that is an average night in that house. I posited that DST shouldn’t really hurt people who never get sleep anyway. In fact, it might shorten the torture of an average night! You know, kind of like how the Great Depression didn’t really make much difference to people who were already poor. I didn’t say it was a good theory.

What I actually said (Saturday night on Twitter) was that losing an hour of sleep is dumb. My good fryber (friend you meet in cyberspace but haven’t met in person, a term we co-coined cause we’re so cool) Renee from Lessons from Teachers and Twits countered with these words of wisdom: