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

better to have a lawn mower than an overgrown garden!
I assume you're a wind chime owner?

I have one because I hate my neighbours and I want them to die move.

I don't have one but I love the sound. I don't think many people consider their neighbours? Next door have a cat that shits in our garden, the house at the back has a trampoline along the fence that borders our garden, the people who used to live the other side had an autistic child who used to scream in the garden all day long, amd a few doors down there's a really loud dog. I feel like most people have inconsiderate neighbours. So if you enjoy listening to wind chimes then why shouldn't you go for it?

We have one, but then we dont have any neighbours. I would never have considered having one at our last house as I knew it would be a nuisance to others.

YANBU. I hate the fuckers with a white hot passion. And to the poster who said that you can't hear them inside, try living in a terraced house with paper thin walls and adjoining patios as DH and I did a few years ago.

I wish my neighbours had a wind chime. Instead they have a unwalked dog, who barks all day and night, and motorbikes.

Or dogs or children or lawn mowers, in fact if they considered their neighbours they would have nothing that makes a noise!

I always take mine down if it's really windy. ..the noise is a bit overwhelming!

I think it falls within the same box as screaming kids, garden music, DIY on a sunday morning and so on.....one man's meat.

I have a bamboo one. The neighbours each side also have them. The three of us must drive others batshit!

If you get new neighbours who have a few noisy dogs and screaming children, you'll miss those wind chimes! I've never understood the MN obsession with wind chimes yet screaming children are considered to be acceptable!

Turns out I’m in the vast minority and everyone hates wind chimes! My neighbour has 12 in the garden, and they are just the ones I can see. I think they’re nice.

Agree.

MIL's house has a little stream running alongside it, the noise from it is so peaceful and soothing. Wind chimes, especially someone else's, cannot even come close.

if they considered their neighbours they wouldn't have a wind chime!

They aren't called wind chimes. They're called turning-your-neighbour-into-a-crazy-axe-wielding monster chimes.

If no cameras and a fence you can easily get over, snip them, neighbour might get the msg.

My neighbours have the tinkly bastard type. They're up all the time. I have to use noise canceling earbuds a lot in summer. I have tinnitus and chronic illness and it is torture. I did mention it once but he said they can't hear it! He left it up.

They have also built a shitty summerhouse over my boundary and damaged my fence posts so they're not known for consideration. She also sits and smokes in the fecking summerhouse which is underneath my bedroom window. He was burning plastic last week in his garden bonfire. Ffs.

Those things should be for beach bars and huge neighbourless gardens only.

Donkey's years ago, the house directly behind us hung up the biggest, noisiest and most offensive brass brand wind chime thing on our dividing fence. They had an approx. 120ft long garden (we don't), so presumably all they heard from their patio was a twinkly tinkle, whereas we were treated to Tubular Bells on steroids 24/7, even with the doors and windows shut. We asked them if they would mind moving it further down their garden, but they refused.

I accidentally knocked it off the fence a couple of times after that, but it always found its way back up straight away. One warm summer's day, and we could stand the torture no more, so I took the wire cutters to it. The neighbours moved several months later, thankfully.

Not an answer to your question, but I'll never forget my batshit neighbour coming and pounding on our door to demand we took down our windchimes after a windy night/day.

We politely explained we didn't have any windchimes or similar - which she refused to believe (we genuinely didn't!). When invited to come into the garden to see/maybe identify which other neighbour had them (as we definitely didn't) she stormed off in a huff rather than admit she was wrong.

I couldn't even hear the bloody windchimes she was talking about. She probably had tinnitus 😂

I was given an ugly bastard one for Christmas a couple of years ago. No idea what it sounded like as it was rehomed to the charity very quickly. Most don't even look nice.

There are multiple wind chimes in a large magnolia tree in a neighbour’s front garden.
The noise doesn’t bother me walking up and down the road but luckily I don’t hear it from my bedroom at night. If I lived next door it would drive me insane and my son who has ASD probably wouldn’t cope with the incessant tinkling sound.

I have one in the conservatory, not outside. The noise would drive me and the neighbours bonkers in this windy weather!

My neighbour’s chimes have put a stop to me using the garden as much as I used to. They are the very light ones, so the slightest movement of air gets them going and the tinkling is particularly high-pitched. I can’t stand the bloody things.

Admittedly, this is an extreme reaction and I fully acknowledge that I’m (too) sensitive to noise. But I do think it is selfish. I’d be ok with them putting them up when they’re actually out in the garden but of course nobody does this. You can hear them in the house when the wind is really bad!