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Plug- In Kitchen Clock?e

violann — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:51:38 GMT

Is there any business that makes them or imports them?

Or in desperation, an analog (ewwwww) that at least LOOKS like a good '50's kitchen clock?

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nomless — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:43:04 GMT

@violann, eBay has vintage plug in clocks. Lots of cute kitchen clocks. Amazon has vintage AKA retro style clocks. I found a website that carries retro clocks but the ones I looked at were battery operated. I think eBay is your best source for plug in clocks.

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Sooner — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:29:44 GMT

Are you getting the cat with the rolling eyes and the swinging tail? LOL!!!!

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violann — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:41:02 GMT

@Sooner IF I COULD, I WOULD! At this point I just want a clock with a TAIL (electric cord!).

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ValuSkr — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:11:27 GMT

You don't like battery-operated?

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violann — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:59:03 GMT

@ValuSkr wrote:
You don't like battery-operated?

In my personal experience, this particular type of "planned obsolescence" is a huge annoyance both with hanging a batteryclock that will lie flush against a soffit, and also a battery. Clock always seems to let me down at the most inappropriate moments ( IE., when I actually want to know WHAT TIME IT IS).

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ValuSkr — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:14:04 GMT

@violann wrote:
@ValuSkr wrote:
You don't like battery-operated?
In my personal experience, this particular type of "planned obsolescence" is a huge annoyance both with hanging a batteryclock that will lie flush against a soffit, and also a battery. Clock always seems to let me down at the most inappropriate moments ( IE., when I actually want to know WHAT TIME IT IS).

I guess you don't have many power outages. We have quite a few here in SE Pennsylvania and the battery-operated wall clock keeps right on going. No need after power is restored to drag the step ladder up to the kitchen and figure out how to reset the clock, not to mention having to rehang it on the nail (which can be a trick!). The battery doesn't need replacement often - probably every two or three years.

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Sooner — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:44:38 GMT

@violann wrote:
@Sooner IF I COULD, I WOULD! At this point I just want a clock with a TAIL (electric cord!).

@violann

I think you can! I remember seeing one not too long ago in a catalog or something. Does Vermont Country Store have them? Google it and I'll bet you can! LOL!!!!

FOUND IT! Amazon has them

Kit-Cat BC01 Classic Black Clock, Large

Back in the day our neighbor bought one and her husband wouldn't let her run it all the time because he was afraid it used too much electricity. TRUE but sad story. So she could only run it when they have company or when I wanted to come by and see it.

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novamc1 — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:12:09 GMT

My parents had one of those cat clocks with the bug-eyes and swinging tail in our kitchen when I was growing up. I suppose everyone did.

I know I couldn't live without the two large-faced battery clocks that we have used for years. One is a version of the big indoor/outdoor clock that you see advertised everywhere, from garden shops to BedBathBeyond to Walmart and on and on. It can come in different colors......ours is a brushed silver/steel color, but I've seen it in many different finishes. It has a hygrometer dial on the face that shows relative humidity and a thermometer. It hangs in the family room and I must look at it at least six times a day, even when I'm just passing through the room.

This clock sets itself for changes in daylight savings time because it gets radio signals from a government facility out West. It never goes out during a power outage. I've only changed the one little AA battery in it once over the 7-8 years that we've had it on the wall in our family room.

I also have another battery clock that I don't put on the wall but have propped on one of those display easels on a table in my "personal woman cave". It, too, only uses one AA battery and just like the wall clock I mentioned, that little battery seems to last forever--at least 4-5 years.

If you want a plug-in, that's fine. But for convenience, I'm willing to change one little AA battery just a few times during a lifetime. We have power outages and brief interruptions--some lasting only about one or two seconds--and I'm tired of adjusting the oven and microwave clocks every time that happens. Technology is better than that!

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novamc1 — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:38:54 GMT

Here are photos of the simle battery-operated clocks I referred to in earlier post. The one propped on an easel can hang on a nail in the wall just as easily. Don't know why photo is laying on its side......I didn't take it that way! Thanks not, QVC. LOL!

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violann — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:45:22 GMT

Have to be truthful @novamc1- they're beautiful.

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novamc1 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:20:35 GMT

@violann

Thanks. They really are not anything very expensive or special, other than being essential items used during my day.

Neither one of mine came from Walmart, but if you go to the WM website or any other online retail source and search analog wall clocks and atomic wall clocks, you will find many choices--provided you don't mind changing a battery once in a great while.

Hope you find what you need!

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ValuSkr — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:31:30 GMT

The nice thing about atomic clocks is that they adjust automatically for daylight savings time. If you're up in the middle of the night, you can see the hands advance one hour (Spring ahead) or advance 23 hours (Fall back - my clock doesn't go backward, to to go back one hour, it advances 23 hours).