I am sure this must have been discussed before. My DH is having a problem with watches. He had a digital watch that gave time of day, day of week, month, date, year. He kept fooling with it and messed it up. Our son fixed when he was here. We were at a concert last night and I noticed him fooling with it. Today, he can't find it. I am sure he lost it. I found his good Seiko and set the time this morning, because he was obsessing over the watch. Well he messed that up. This is just one more straw on my back. When he gets this way, he wants me to fix it now. I do everything. He sits on his recliner. He told me last night he would like me to buy him some brandy. I told him I could not. It was 10;30 and I was ready for bed.
my DH went from wearing a rolex to the 5dol types from discount stores. like the buzzing toothbrushes i buy by the dozen. he has abucket of cheap watches to enjoy and he feels he still has his good watch on.:)divvi
My DW still wears a watch every day but most of them do not work. But that does not matter cause she does not know how to tell time or even if they are running. Just a year ago, she would go around the house and mess with them and actually reset them after daylight Saving time. I wish she did undedrstand time cause she does not understand that we are going in an hour, this afternoo or tonight. She will go comb her hair, get her purse and wait impatiently until we go. I try not to tell her too early at all. One more small item to complicate life. bill
Bill ........ I don't even mention to my husband that we are going out until I'm all ready to go myself and have my purse and the car keys in my hand ...... then I say to him ....... 'go put your shoes and coat on, we're going to ......' (wherever) and he's excited to go. Telling him we're going out too soon is just too hard on both him and me ....... he gets himself all ready to go and then fuss' while he's waiting for me to be ready to go, puts his coat on and takes it off again, puts his shoes on and takes them off again - all while he's waiting to go ...... its just a whole lot easier, on both him and me, to tell him at the last minute ....... LoL !!!!!!
My husband is in the early stages of AD - looks good to everyone, high functioning. But I have to wait until the last minute to tell him that we are going anywhere or that we are having comapny. If not, he will do something to sabatoge it - start acting out, etc, so by the time we are ready to go, it is awful. This way, he just gets excited about a new thing to do. Gp figure.........
My husband would obsess over the watch being off 30 seconds or so from one of the digital clocks all over the house, on the stove, the TV cable box,etc. It was all George Bush's fault, because he'd changed the daylight savings time start. Finally, accidentally, his watch band broke. He put it aside and forgot it and I moved it out of sight. This has made him much happier, just gets his time from the digital clocks which he can read easily. Of course, half the time he doesn't know if it's a.m. or p.m., and asks.
Lest you think this is political, no, now he's blaming things on Obama! He has ALWAYS had trouble with authority figures. (including me)
My wife took her watch off one day and just left it on her bureau. Occasionally she will ask where it is and I tell her that I know, and that satisfies her. Regarding tellling her we are going out, about 10-15 minutes before we are to leave I take her to the bathroom and tell her that she needs to take care of this before we can leave. When we actually get going, she never asks where we are going. She just seems happy to be going somewhere with me, even if it is to day care. Sometimes I will tell her where we are going, but she doesn't remember for more than 5 minutes, if that.
maryd, My husband has always loved watches and they were an irritating problem here. I took away his good watches (had the bands changed and I wear them now), bought several Cascio brand digital watches--had the alarms disabled by the watchmaker where I bought them. That kept DH from setting the alarms and waking us up at 2 a.m. One is set to Daylight Savings Time, one to Standard Time. I just give him the appropriate watch when the time changes--they are a real pain to set yourself. If he fiddles with the buttons, I just keep pressing them and the correct time comes back on. I don't know about other brands, but I think actually resetting the Cascios is so complicated, he can't accomplish it, and that's a good thing!