Wind chimes - yay or nay

[SalsaLove]

I personally love the sound of wind chimes in a gentle breeze. However, I live in row a terraced houses with long narrow back gardens that converge. I do wonder if I would forever be known as “fecking wind chime lady” if I hang up my new chimes.

@SalsaLove

These are proper bronze chimes. The picture on the box is of hills and a lake - think Sound of Music in summer. Perhaps an indication that they are more appreciated in the middle of nowhere?

I think you're probably right!

Alright everyone. I can see which way the wind is blowing (cough, sorry, cough). Thank you for your answers.

Actually really good idea about the soundtrack. I have alexa send me to sleep with rain and thunderstorms- I bet there’s chimes too.

We have a couple of wind chimes and I only hang them out during the day if it's a light breeze. I'd never leave them out when it's windy or 27/7. I also don't hang them out every day. Neither of my direct neighbours use their gardens. I wouldn't like to think I was bothering anyone, but the other neighbours drum, talk loudly and have pop music going so.....

Get a hot tub instead Op, much less annoying to the neighbours

(I like windchimes)

I actually really like them, but the mid/deeper pitched ones, not the really high tinkly type.
I find them reassuring and calming.

But then, I like the clock chiming loudly every 15 minutes too... and many people can't stand that.

I have alexa send me to sleep with rain and thunderstorms

Aah, bliss!

Wind chimes!? No way.

My neighbours have some that aren't unpleasant on the kind of day you'll be sitting in the garden, in fact a bit of background noise gives additional privacy, but they're far enough down a long garden that I can't hear them from the house. That would drive me mad

Nope, totally anti-social.

I stayed in a caravan years ago and the (empty) caravan in front had wind chimes.

I ended up grabbing a roll of parcel tape and sticking them together, to shut the bloody things up.

Nooooo. Unless you want someone to climb into your garden in the dead of night to cut the strings.

Nope! I don't mind them but when we moved house we quickly realised neighbour had them. In summer it was a nightmare as my dh was frequently woke up with them as window was open. I personally don't see the point of them. If you like sound download an app and have it playing through your house.

I like the idea of putting them out during a gentle breeze. Certainly not in the gales we’ve recently been having. We also live down the road from a church that rings it’s bells throughout the day so I wonder if we’re not all a bit used to things ringing.

I love them, but I appreciate not everyone does so I only hang mine up when I'm going out to sit in the garden; I take them down again when I'm going back inside.

No, bloody irritating. Church bells are totally different.

@VitalsStable

I'd be over the fence with a pair of scissors cutting the bloody chimes off. It's rude and inconsiderate to expect your neighbours to listen to the sound of something because you enjoy it. Download a wind chime soundtrack and listen to it through earphones.

House 2 doors along from us did this to NDN's chimes a few years ago! We were quietly grateful to be honest.

Fortunately none of my neighbours are as athletically inclined as VitalsStable! 😆

No no no!

I have some that I hang out sometimes in the warmer weather when I am sitting in the garden. When I go in - so do the wind chimes.

Jesus. If I lived near wind chimes it would drive me insane. I’d be chopping the fuckers off under cover of darkness if the neighbours insisted on them.

I think it’s incredibly selfish if you have neighbours. Plus tacky. Please don’t do it.

Not metal, but we've got a set of bamboo ones which have a much gentler sound.

Our neighbours have them and I hate, hate, hate them, particularly as we can't open our windows at night in summer to catch a breeze, without hearing them jangling away at the slightest breath of one.

hell no, bloody annoying!! Someone down the road from me has a couple on the balcony of their flat and every time I walk past and hear them I wonder how their neighbours tolerate it.

@Aerielview

I love them, but I appreciate not everyone does so I only hang mine up when I'm going out to sit in the garden; I take them down again when I'm going back inside.

This approach seems fair. I'd personally get very irritated by a neighbour having them outside all the time, but I could cope with them for occasional short periods. After all, they have to put up with the noise of my children in the garden in spring and summer

Oh no please don't our neighbours had some that drove me mad had to keep the windows closed at all times!

I do appreciate all the feedback and have decided to only put them up when I’m in the garden, perhaps for an hour. Xx