I have about $300k saved up and was looking to buy for the past several months (in NYC), and everything looked good—monthly payments were looking to be a couple hundred less than I'm paying in rent, I planned to stay in the new place for about 7 years and it all checked out with the NYT rent/buy calculator, etc. But…

I was using Gentle Alarm for a while and I loved it, it worked great, and waking up to wind chimes was pretty nice. But after a few weeks of it, I realized that hearing bells anywhere else gave me a really unpleasant dizzy-headachy feeling like I was asleep and trying to wake up, so I had to stop using it. I miss it,…