If you have a wind chime do you consider your neighbours?

Wind chimes are horrible, horrible things that should only be allowed in horror films.

Every summer I fantasise about going out in the dead of night and chopping down my neighbours. They're those wooden ones and they are awful. I can hear them all over the house when I have the windows or patio doors open. So irritating.

We have one, it goes up when we're outside. It forms part of my little boy's sensory garden, he's blind and disabled, unable to sit or walk but he can roll and the wind chime encourages him to move around his space independently, it's a a very low height so that he can reach up, feel it and hear the sounds. Due to the severity of his disabilities there are very few things he can play with, he doesn't shout, scream or lob balls over the neighbours' fences so I hope they don't mind the sounds of his windchimes every now and then.

wins the internet today! If I did AI generated art, I would do a picture of this. .....all the people hung up by their feet and their little heads clonking together

I have a gorgeous wooden one that lets out the most lovely soft noise. HOWEVER I live in an ex pat gated community and my immediate neighbours are all expats.. the one side of us is nothing but mango trees..the other side is the identical house to ours..between both ours and next door neighbour..behind is three small 2 bed bungalows. The bungalows are all friends and come 2x a year..once for 2 weeks and once for one week and always seem to arrive within a day of each other.. the house beside us is an american couple that come 4x a year...for 4 days each time . During the time that the homes are occupied I take my wind chimes down. Its just good manners. If I ever have one of my neighbours sell to people that will live here full time.. well bye bye to my wind chimes (unless they are arseholes who blast music or scream all day)

Our neighbour had one that sounded like dustbin lids being bashed together. It wasn't twinkly. It clanged day and night for two years. They refused to do anything about it and it nearly drove me insane. Another neighbour cut it down eventually and threw it away. So they aren't all 'tinkly'.

My neighbours in a 2 up, 2 down in a built up city area got a cockerel as a pet…… that really tested my sanity…….

Yes, I got some precisely to provide a distraction from the noise my neighbours make. We have spoken to them about their noise, and they couldn’t care less. I doubt they can hear our windchimes over their own noise, but I hope they can, and I hope it drives them crazy!

Bloody awful things. It’s like torture listening to their tuneless clunking.

I was given one. I binned it after about 2 hours, it was so irritating.

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Of course some noise is reasonable.

I didn't do tit for tat. I just got something I always wanted but held off getting out of consideration. I could no longer justify that level of consideration to myself. It was more like, "Well, I guess I'll get those wind chimes I've always wanted. If they don't have to consider us, we don't have to consider them." Not, "How can I annoy the neighbours? I know, I'll get wind chimes."

I don't do tit for tat either but this is not that. I didn't get wind chimes at them, I got wind chimes for me and they made it acceptable.

I could listen to a thousand screaming children and dogs for eternity rather than a wind chime.

I have them , but I can't stand my stuck up bastard neighbour so got them purely to bug them. 🤣. Gets windy as anything here too. 😈

My mums got one... she hates her neighbours! They dont bat an eye when their knuckle dragging sons are screaming at their Xbox at 11pm at night...

Not entirely sure I could fit the neighbours on a wind chime. In the interests of politeness, would I need to include all the neighbours? What about pets?

My neighbours had some when I was growing up. They drove my parents nuts. Dad was particularly sensitive to noise (ironically he’s now deaf). Neighbours were arseholes in other ways too so it was just part of their entitled behaviour. The man once yelled at dad that he should pave part of our garden because it was so large, our lawn was stealing the nutrients from their soil and his vegetables weren’t growing well. That was honestly the only time I saw my dad speechless. He couldn’t work out how to respond to that level of crazy.

A posh garden centre near me has a section of what I can only describe as 'artisanal wind chimes'; large and very mellow, with the 'dingers' crafted out of some kind of slightly muffling material, and all expertly tuned. They cost a bomb but I, who have never found myself attracted to wind chimes, found myself hanging around the display and nudging the tubes for longer than I'd expected of myself. But I wouldn't get any precisely because my neighbours might hate them.

Wind won't cut strings though.

I'd just replace it and get a second one to top it off.

My parents neighbour has one and it doesn’t bother mum and dad, I don’t notice it when I’m in their garden. But my grandma despises it and when we have BBQs/eat outside in the summer (which is often) and grandma comes round, she always complains loudly about it. We just laugh at her hatred for it as it doesn’t bother us at all!

I think the point was they were meant to think the wind had done it…I assume they did.

Luckily mine can't do that and, if they could, they'd have to be trespassing big time. Then the police will be notified of trespass and vandalism.

How do you know you don't do anything to annoy your neighbours?

To answer your question, yes, I did consider the neighbours and didn't get wind chimes. I did want them but considered the neighbours. Then the neighbours decided not to consider us and refused to do anything about it. It wasn't your standard every day noise that it would be reasonable for us to put up with either. So I decided they didn't deserve that kind of consideration and got wind chimes. They can only be heard by me and them. I love them. I don't know what the neighbours think of them and don't care. For all I know they like them. They are high quality. I do tie them up on windy nights though. If they complain about them, I will show them the same consideration they showed me. They won't complain though. They know they shut any door to that kind of discussion themselves.