People Did Very Weird Things Before Modern Inventions Came Along

No Alarm Clock, Better Wet The Bed

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We wish that headline was a joke, but it’s not. Before alarm clocks, people had some weird ways to make sure they made it to work on time. In Native American culture, they would drink as much water as they could stomach. Then, when they woke up needing to “go,” they would either get up and start their day or wet themselves and go back to bed.

England took waking up a little more comically. They would pay people to bang on their windows with sticks in the morning. The poor soul who would take this job was called a “knocker-upper” and could earn up to a shilling for each successful wake-up. Just ahead, be thankful toilet paper was invented!