To think wind chimes are the most anti social, selfish objects in the world (well nearly)

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If you want freakoid horror movie before someone gets murdered twinkly dinkly music put them in your house and stick a fan on. Don't inflict them on your neighbours, especially ones who have just had a baby & struggling to sleep anyway.

YANBU. Loathe them.

Congrats on your baby, btw

Yanbu.

I would climb across the garden fence and smash my neighbours windchimes.

YANBU
Those giant trampolines are a close second though.

Thanks Olivia.

I want to get my sisscors to them. They've just put them in their new gazebo with hot tub

Don't even know them. On a new recent development & they have barely spoken to us, except when I had to chase their fecking cat from scrapping with another under my car, sounding like a screaming child.

They do sound classy

All windchimes should be banned. Along with creepy solar garden "lights".

I love windchimes indoors but would never dream of putting them outside as DP would kill me if a neighbour heard our radio/music, heard us talking, or if I was breathing loudly after pushing the wheelbarrow back from the lottie!

I live in a terraced house so I am practically in next doors garden.

I have developed an outdoor voice that does not carry

Do speak to your neighbours as this will make you develop a twitch every time the wind blows, or do a midnight raid armed with a sharp scissors!

My mother has a neighbour,thankfully not directly next door,but across the street and one up,who has no fewer than 52 windchimes. I know because I counted them once,when I was very bored.

I'm amazed that the neighbours on either side of him haven't cut them down,or committed murder yet.

To really piss off their neighbours?

The house i recently bought had a wind-chime in the garden. It only made me negotiate on price even harder, knowing the vendors were likely brain dead.

I like to hear a windchime occasionally but having to listen to one by force would drive me to murder.

I quite like them. My neighbour has the wooden ones.

It sounds like someone is playing the xylophone all night.

Their bloody "intruder" light is a piss take though. Lights up like Wembley bloody Stadium at the slightest hint of movement.

ok, i'm going to add conservatories into the mix too, fecking light polluting cages of tackiness (god I'm grumpy, can you tell i've had a rough week night).

windchimes just remind me of horror films, you know, american veranda in a secluded area, old lady asleep in her rocking chair, a light breeze brushes the wind chimes, all seems calm till SLASH - some axe murderer takes her out and leaves her head impailed on a spike, the windchimes shoved up her nose, driven mad by their incessant ringing!

In my Ahem Younger days (13) my Neighbour had some obnoxious metal ones, rather than chiming when they hit they made this god awful "BONG" sound.

Since I am an incredably light sleeper this would wake me up 15-20 times a night, which whilst working wasn't fun!

So one night I had gotten so fed, I climbed over their wall and ripped them out of the wall, went back into the house and threw them into the back of my cupboard.

Fast forward to 8 years later.

I'm getting ready to move out with my girlfriend and my parents are helping me pack, they proceed to come across these wind chimes and when they find out the story we all laugh long and hard about it!

They continue to bring it up every sodding birthday I have..

Slight diversion, but two words - lava lamps.

Why would anyone over the age of 10 want one? Our friends have one in the living room - i suppose it's meant to look ironic and kitch. It just looks embarrassing.

And yes wind chimes are fucking annoying. Especially in bulk - horrible little tinny ones with sunflowers on the top and skinny little chimes.

Ok, I might actually have to put a card through their door & nicely ask them to remove them. Dont want to go in person as am fecking knackered & can't face confrontation. What should I say?

YANBU. I was so grateful when we moved from an area where one of the neighbours had them, but couldn't work out who. They are an insidious noise.

I love windchimes and have several, the neighbours like them and have one of their own. We do have big gardens though.
Talk to your neighbours, they could always hook them up at night if they don't want to take them down.
You will need tolerant people living next to you when you have a screeching, nosey, bouncing, wailing bundle of joy rampaging round the garden and throwing things over their fence.

I never liked them and was royally peeved when our neighbour put them up. They set my teeth on edge, I tell you.

Two years on, I quite like them - especially when we come home having been away, for example. They are just another sound that I associate with home.

I'd like a moment's silence for the neighbour's ones that finally fell off the tree from rotted string recently.

Actually no... I'm loving the silence :D Now if the flagpole the other guy has could finally rot away and collapse as well so I don't have to listen to the manky flag flapping all night - I'd be even happier. WTF is it with this street and bodge-job flagpoles?!