Neighbour vacuuming at 07:30!

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

It's HALF TERM! I don't want waking up at 07:30 (their small child is up and stomping around about 20 mins before, mum only works term time so she should be off for half term). AIBU to ask her to stop?

Well we all work here and week days often have to start horribly early but I am totally with the OP, 7.30 is time when tea is drunk, small people are ferried from A to B and noise is kept to a minimum.

Yanbu

I think between 9am and 9pm is when anything loud is acceptable (not including building work etc which I'd expect a neighbour to warn me about) 7.30 is early (and I'm up and have left the house by then but wouldn't make noise as others wouldn't)

If the rules are 7am til 11pm would those saying op ibu be happy if it was 10.30pm?

I can't believe how much flack you are getting OP - being called a 'lazy bitch' for wanting ONE lie in is just crazy.
In my opinion, the council sets noise timeframes as an absolute maximum - but I would never hoover or play loud music etc up to 11pm at night, and would also not start any noisy activities until at least 8am - any time before that is TOO EARLY.
Also can't believe the stories of outraged, shrieking women who have cleaned the entire house, redecorated, cooked a week's worth of meals etc etc by 7.30am and wouldn't ever dream of having a lie in. This is sooooo a different issue. Daren't say it, but gonna: Where are the mens? In bed? Eh? So much for equality.

CanI yes. Yes you're wrong about this. On Saturday night I love the feeling of not having to set an alarm. I hug myself in delight. Me and the DC (12 and 9) regularly wake up after 10 and stay in bed (often together watching something or chatting or reading or talking on the phone or whatever) until later than that. That's what we like to do on a Sunday and I don't think it's either unusual or unreasonable.

I don't have the kids on a Monday morning. I may chose to do the same again, but alone then and regret it later when I have to catch up with work Again, my choice

And btw not evertone is at the same stage of life as you. So while getting up early may be a "stage of life" for you at the moment, it's not for me, or the OP, or lots of others here.

No, I'm not pissed off. I can see both sides (really, I can). I wouldn't do it though, we're quiet and are considerate towards our neighbours. I don't wash during the night in case the spinning disturbs them, we don't have the tv on too loud and we don't slam the doors.

purr well my DH goes to work at 6am so that's where he is at 7:30.

And yes, I clean my house before I go to work. Is that so unusual?

I think maybe that those of us with teenagers sort of have the feeling of "I've done the early mornings, I've been up at 6 am every fecking morning for 15 years, followed by 7 am trying to drive them out the door every morning for another ten.

Now we would all like to have a bit of a rest thank you.

And hoovering doesn't have to be done. It really doesn't I get away with once a month myself

Has to be done when there are 2 lovely shedding dogs and a cat :(

Ok bit I was mainly thinking Mon to Fri (which includes school holidays and I thought was context of op) and I did post I could accept its a stage of life thing!

Still don't think you can tell a neighbour what to do during the day though.

Nooooo!

Actually I hoover at the end of the day myself, but sometimes that is 10.30pm. I don't expect the neighbours to bang on my door to complain!

I don't work in school hols either, well not out of my house anyway, but I am still up by 6am most days and usually doing cleaning jobs while I can. On Monday I was doing the ironing, hopefully not too noisily.

YANBU
We're often up at 6am but I wouldn't dream of getting the Hoover out until 9am at the earliest out of consideration to my neighbours [hshock]
Am surprised by the amount of people who say YABU actually

Shutupanrive- me too! I thought everyone knew 7.30 was the middle of the night!

I have wooden floors, Mary, I just sweep them! [hgrin] Ds used to wake at 05:30. I'd make sure he was quiet. I've had 14 years of early mornings and no sleep.

I'm not sure what you can do about the cats, Tantrums. There's some quieter cleaners out now though.

Nothing to add, but just had to post because I'm [henvy] that some people get to sleep in until 730..

I hhaven't slept past 6 in 3 years.

Guess how old my eldest child is?

I hoover at 0730 on a week day, and will hoover at 0830 on a weekend. Both my children are up at 0630 latest every day of the week and tbh I haven't been up later than 0700 for 12 years.

YABU

Plus how does your next door neighbour you are still sleeping?

Of course yanbu 7.30 am is too early to hoover any day of the week.

I would never hoover until after 9am and 10 at the weekend.

If she's doing it every day, then I can absolutely see how that could send you completely around the twist. [hsad]

Do you feel better now, OP - a lot more people agreeing with you .

My old neighbour used to do the engine thing. [hangry]

Ds is 13, Astro, so I've done my bit of early mornings. I'm also a lone parent, so it's always been me.

I'm off to burn some food. [hsmile] I won't say anything to her, she's nice otherwise.

Oh yes to the warming up cars.

I'm always really tempted to drive the fecking things off, and when challenged say "well it looked all lonely and unloved out here".

I seriously don't get hoovering before breakfast.

Why not hoover at the end of the day, when it's messy?

Slightly, Bossh! [hgrin] I've had a coffee, so am slightly more awake as well, which may have helped.

You've had a bit of a kicking here OP, I don't think YABU.

7.30am every morning is a bit excessive. You should pass on what my mum very wisely told me. The less you use hoovers, the longer they last.

YABU

I had a job once that involved an early start, had to leave my flat at 6.45am.
God help me if l made even the slightest noise whilst shock horror having a shower, even boiling a kettle got a complaint once from my downstairs neighbours.
But funny how when l came home in the evening and was in bed by 9.30 to 10pm ready for my early 5:45am rise next day it was ok for their telly still to be blaring till 11.30 or midnight.
So yes we cant all think everyone else is at the same stage of life as us, be it getting up early or retiring early or half terms or whatever, but surely the OP is just as guilty of that - expecting others to fall in with her stage of life, as the neighbour and all the other early risers.