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What is the most peculiar piece of bedroom furniture you have come across? I mean, take a look around your bedroom. Most of the bedroom furniture there is just that – functional bedroom furniture. This furniture has a specific function to perform and excels at performing that. Take the bed itself for instance. It comes with a mattress and facilitates lying down. Which is what most people do with it anyways! Or take the bed stands for instance. They are meant to serve as convenient storage spaces for items related to the bedroom, which probably need to be tucked away from sight. In some cases, these bed stands come equipped with shelves of sorts so that people can store their books. So far these examples of bedroom furniture are fairly straightforward. In the rare case, I have come across bedroom furniture that reflects the style or personality of the owner. But in some of the houses I have had the opportunity to visit, I have come across some really strange bedroom furniture!

The strangest of these kinds of bedroom furniture was a centuries old alarm mechanism. I use the word mechanism on purpose. Because, unlike the digital clocks of today, this truly was a mechanical device that would wake the sleeper up with a veritable shudder. Based on the principle of the spring mechanism, it could be set for hours and half hours. Once the set time arrived, the device would release a spring on the underside of the bed, literally pushing the sleeper off it. In order that the sleeper not hurt himself, there was a barricade of sorts to prevent them from flying completely off the bed. This whole contraption fit snugly under the bed and lay there until disturbed.

In older houses, I have found bedroom furniture that includes the quaint mosquito net holder. Basically, this comprises four posts of the bed on which the mosquito net is hung or suspended from. But when the net is off, it does look like a pall of sorts. In fact, the first time I saw it, it gave me quite a fright. But the one bedroom furniture that totally freaked me out was the rotary meal deliverer. I really don’t know what else to call it. It was a mechanical contraption that delivered food to the person reclining comfortably on the bed!

I find that waking up in the morning has become much much easier and more enjoyable since I bought an alarm clock cd player for myself. I used to just wake up to an alarm clock radio and that had it’s advantages. There was always an element of surprise in the morning. I never knew what music exactly there would be to wake me up, so the morning had a little bit of a thrill to it. Sometimes my alarm radio would wake me up with something mellow and slow, and I would begin my day in a state of relaxation, calmly going down to breakfast. Other times, it would be something loud and jangly, and I would find myself completely pumped before I got out of bed.

But, ultimately my alarm clock cd player is much better than that old clock radio. With a cd alarm clock, I can chose exactly what music I want to wake up to in the morning and that option simply can not be beat, no two ways about it. Oh, sure there is the chance that what I think will be enjoyable to wake up to turns out to be a dud once my alarm clock cd player clicks on with that distinctive click, but that chance is worth it. After all, I can always set my alarm clock cd player for a different song the next day if that is the case, so I always will have the choice of finding what it is that I like to hear, and listening to it first thing in the morning.

The best thing about my new alarm clock cd player is that it works as a good stereo system too. Anyone who has had an old clock radio knows exactly what I am about to talk about. They have this awful tiny sound, that comes from running on only one little tinny speaker. They are good for waking you up with that washed out, awful sound that is practically their trademark, but for nothing else. If, by contrast, you chose to use an alarm clock cd player, you get to wake up every morning to full, rich music which occupies the bass end of the spectrum as well as the treble. For an audiophile like me, there are no two ways about it. The choice is honestly very simple, as far as I am concerned.