To think garden wind chimes should be banned?!!

It's usually in your council by laws but some neighbours are more tolerant than others.

Wasn't talking about you personally, just thinking of some of the past threads from people who have some appalling people next to them.

I’m interested in what times you think are appropriate for mowing. There was a complaint on our village FB page about our Lawn mowing. We are in a rural village, mainly OAPs, no young children, large gardens and we mowed between 6 and 8pm on a Saturday. We work and had also been out that day and the forecast wasn’t good for Sunday. Apparently we completely ruined their G and T time!

Not sure about a solution. My wind chimes aren't a tit for tat or attempt to annoy the neighbours (bonus if they do). It's merely that I feel like I am able to do something I've always wanted to do, due to their behaviour. It's like they gave me the freedom to do something I didn't do out of consideration before. If that makes sense. I got my wind chimes for me. I wanted them for a long time. I love wind chimes. The consideration factor was just wiped out. I am living my life more freely so, in a sense, they gave me a gift.

Think you may have just given some of the posters with those obnoxious noisy neighbours a solution. Provided they can cope with the noise themselves.

I can extend the sympathy and understanding when people express less vitriol. Others have mentioned it chronic illness, sensory issues etc. Completely understandable. However when you live in a detached home, it's in someone else's garden presumably with some space, and it's...annoying? Then it's noise pollution, should be banned and curse out people who have them? Bit much for me.

If it doesn't meet a threshold for a formal complaint to a 3rd party then I think you have to accept you can't control it or change it, and expend your energy elsewhere.

If you'd like to compete I have a few plastic medals in the drawer, but I'd recommend against seeing sharing thoughts and personal experiences as a competitive sport on an "AIBU" forum thread.

We get it after school too. And three times on Saturday. This is why I finally felt okay about getting wind chimes. If they can do that, I can do wind chimes.

My neighbours have a noise that is unpredictable and happens every day. That's the only reason I bought wind chimes after years of not doing so to be considerate. They aren't owed the consideration. If the wind chimes wind them up, bonus. That's not why I got them though. I got them because I wanted them, had for years, and they gave me no reason to not get them anymore.

Why don’t you say what you really mean? 😉

Lol wind chimes annoying not even attached but another block up and clang clang every time there's a bit of wind I have to shut my bedroom window....however that's not the bane of my morning someone moved in next door and omg being woken to bounce,bounce of a football long before the lad leaves for school has started driving me nuts as it wakes the little ones and that's with the window shut and he can bounce that darn ball hundreds of times early each morning lol

So you just have to be reliant on weather to get peace. Pretty unfair if it's a noise that winds you up.

No they are FAR too loud and a total noise pest. Absolutely shouldn't be allowed. Thier pleasure is your discomfort. Very inconsiderate

Wind chimes are not constant. It's not windy all the time. Sometimes they are silent for days.

YANBU they are awful.

Moved into my current house nearly 9 years ago, the first weekend I cut down the wind chimes in the garden because the noise drove me insane., our neighbour who we’d obviously only just met made a point of thanking me for getting rid of them!!

I now have two quite loud children and my neighbour now has 4 dogs but at least any noise they make is not CONSTANT.

That’s why I said if a neighbour approached me like the PP approached hers 😜

I love wind chimes and didn't buy them because I am a considerate person and knew the neighbours might not like them. Then the neighbours showed they weren't considerate so I decided, oh well, I don't have to be either. So I got my always wanted wind chimes because they made me not care. If I knew they annoyed them, I'd shrug and not care one bit. They brought it on themselves.

Depends on the neighbour. I would for one side. The other side, I'd buy another one to go with it.

They cause you awful anxiety. They don’t cause everyone anxiety. My neighbours like mine. If they disliked them, I’d remove them. Do I have windchimes and I am neither selfish, or a moron.

The dogs have been yapping for a lot longer than my lovely chimes, I feel no guilt.

But that poster is correct. Anyone with an ounce of consideration for others wouldn't have windchimes. They actually cause me awful anxiety.

And your neighbours probably think "I don't care if the dogs yap and annoy the neighbours - they're inconsiderate bastards anyway with their windchimes".

Personally I would ban them.

I think you may be projecting there. That ridiculous, sweeping statement makes you sound like a moron.

I feel this way about people cutting their fucking grass as soon as it’s a little bright, every fucking day! As soon as one starts they’re all at it, then gets back round to the first one who done to do it again and it’s a whole summer thing!! Should be a specific grass cutting day where everyone does it!! Infuriating

When my DD was about 20 we lived around the corner from my brother in law and his wife . There was a house on the corner (other half of my semi) between the two of us . They had a wind chime in the back garden which drove my DD mad when she was trying to get to sleep . Anyway she decided to dare her slightly younger cousin to get rid of it . A couple of days later when he was on his way back from the pub DNephew chucked it in the bin 😂. Peace was restored and the boy person annoyed by it was BIL . Neighbour wasn’t bothered so it was probably getting on his nerves too .

Having experienced this myself in a mid terrace house, I find it utterly infuriating. Our neighbours had the clangy metal kind and had them no more than 2 metres from our daughter’s bedroom window. The amount to times she woke through the night on a windy night was terrible. Completely inconsiderate. Luckily they’ve moved now and peace has been restored to the neighbourhood.