AIBU to just want my appliances to leave me alone?

[missg00se]

I've recently moved from an old house with not so up to date appliances to a new build where everything is brand spanking new. It's nice to have modern appliances that work - but it feels like everything is just constantly beeping at me!

Microwave: beeps for a full minute after it's done.
Washing machine: plays a kind of beepy tune when it's done, and repeats beeping noises until I open the door.
Tumble dryer: beeps when done. Beeps at regular intervals until I intervene.

The dishwasher is my only ally but that's because I tend to put it on in the evening and I can't hear the beeping from the other end of the house! I know it's still beeping at me though.

I'm sure there are more; just can't think of the less annoying ones at the moment.

This is lighthearted, mainly - but honestly sometimes I feel like it's driving me insane! DD is 9 months and has recently learned the power of crying to get what she wants.
Also we have two cats who make noises at me incessantly until I drop what I'm doing and see to their needs. I've got enough going on. AIBU to feel that additional nagging by my household appliances is just a bridge too far?!

My freezer and fridge beep too if someone leaves them open too long. This is actually useful. The rest of them, pah!

@fabulousathome my fridge and freezer are the only things that don't beep! I agree that would be useful at times. And at other times make me want to drag it out into the garden and set fire to it.

@Teatimebear your kettle beeps? Dear lord. That's a whole other level of crazy. What kind is it so I can make sure I never buy one? I refuse to be nagged by a kettle!

Ah, thanks folks. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who resents being nagged by appliances!

I didn't even think that there might be a secret way to turn the endless beeping off though - the manuals do not tell you that. Thanks to those that suggested googling. I will give it a go tomorrow if I get the chance. The microwave is first in the firing line. Beepy so and so.

Same here, Microwave/Dishwasher/Dryer all make a fuss.

The washing machine sings a very jolly song at the end, but like a PP here, the beeping for each dial turn freaks the shit out of my house bunnies, so have disabled it (can't just have the tune at the end, it is all or none).

Microwave beeps can't be disabled. Dryer and DW are quite quiet beeps.

We used to have a washing machine that did this. DH would open the door to shut it up, but then neglect to take the washing out, only for me to discover the cold mouldering load later.

My partner's family have a washing machine which plays Jingle Bells when it's finished. Jingle Bells!!

@TerrorAustralis sounds familiar...

I generally agree but find the washing machine dryer beep quite useful as I can to it before the toddler randomly puts it on again. A child lock would be great.

But our TV does a loud brief tune when turned on and off which is so unnecessary- it announces to the whole household you are trying to have a bit of downtime and must be disturbed immediately. Why?! I know when I'm putting it on and off!

My cordless phone plays a tune after I've rung off. I could probably change it, but can't find the instruction sheet.

Last time I went to buy an appliance (think it was microwave) salesman asked what sort of thing we were after and DH immediately replied... 'one that doesn't beep'!

My blood doorbell has joined in with the game now. When I lock my car the doorbell randomly plays Oh Suzanna, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Home on the Range It doesn't work at all if someone is at the door pressing the little bastard though!

"Just" the dishwasher and tumble dryer do it at ours, but they drive me nuts. I have been known to yell obscenities at the tumble dryer, because even if I react immediately, it still bleeps before I get to it!!! I would love the option to switch off. I know I must be nuts, but I do sometimes wish the washing machine would beep, so that I can chuck the next load in

my (now deceased) roomba played a happy song when he was ready to start, and a sad song to let me know he was full and needed emptying, we liked him. Thankfully most of the house is fairly old tech, so apart from the tumble dryer tumbling every five minutes when it's finished until it's turned off, we're a bleep-free house

It drives me mental. Just do your damn job in silence!

I can't wait for my kettle to break, so I can replace it with a nice, silent, cheap one.

It's a KitchenAid kettle - dh's little 'joke' - I would love a KitchenAid food mixer, and have lusted over them for years, so when we needed a new kettle, he chose a KitchenAid one - "So now you have a KitchenAid!"

Not only is it a crap joke - but the little fucker is so damn loud. It doesn't beep, it screeches. One screech when you switch it on, and three screeches when it boils. It's like fingernails down a blackboard. What bloody idiot of a designer thought we would like something making that noise, every time we want boiling water??

And now the bloody coffee maker is in on it too. One screech when you switch it on, and three when it has finished making the coffee. And then the one time a screech would be useful - when the hot plate switches off - so you can go and switch it back on if you want the coffee to stay hot - it is silent as the grave.

I do not need something to irritate me, when I have yet to have my first caffeine of the day.

Our kettle beeps so loud we have to make tea on the stove if someone is sleeping!

Ooh I could do with a beeping kettle. We always put it on, get distracted then have to boil again, at least if it shouted at us like the microwave/oven/cat does then we wouldn't waste so much electricity on boiling water

@thenightsky that sounds like a uniquely erm, talented doorbell!

I have found my tribe .

"MY LAUNDRY FINISHING IS NOT AN EMERGENCY!" This times a thousand. Although the tumble dryer can be set to not beep, and the washing machine I can live with. But - the oven. Sigh. I loved my old oven, and although you couldn't turn the beeping off completely, you could set it to beep three times and then stop. But it gave up the ghost 18 months ago and we had to replace it. They no longer made exactly the same model, but it's from the same manufacturer so we assumed it would have the same feature. Nah. The 'new improved version' will beep forever until you press the button. And if you open the door to check on what's cooking, you have to press the 'Start' button when you re-close the door - or it beeps at you forever. there's a lot of flying across the kitchen to press buttons on the oven goes on in our house these days. Accompanied by snarls and swearing.

Oh, I too hate this. Washing machine beeping, oven set timer, microwave. Drives me insane.

I described my dishwasher as an attention seeker to DH this morning. It beeps loud and long beeeeeps. It is by far the most demanding of our appliances.

I went on YouTube to try and work out how to switch off the beep on my dishwasher.

You couldn't put it on last thing at night as it would beep loudly every ten minutes until about 4am.

Who the hell has a dish emergency?

Ahhhh.. I know how you feel OP. I had a new kitchen fitted last year with 8 new appliances.. Every single one of them seems to be hysterically telling me when they've finished doing whatever it is they have to do.. Most of the appliances are behind doors (integrated I think its called) and I seem to spend half my life flinging open doors trying to catch which one of the bleeping bleeders is currently trilling away.. The worst offender is the microwave, it goes on and on and on and on in a really irritating tone. Husband comes in, put's something in the microwave then goes upstairs to get changed etc and just leaves it to scream its head off - obviously he can't hear it upstairs but I can in other rooms in the house..

The dishwasher though has got to be the "coolest" appliance in the room though - it has an LED light than shines onto the kitchen floor which a display of what cycle it is now on and how long it is until its finished. This is then ended with one small beep. Classy..

I've just remembered the Fridge!!! You cannot have the door open for about 10 seconds without it bleeping loudly to tell you you've got the door open. I'm like "I know I've got the fucking door open, I'm trying to find the sodding cheese!' whilst its bleeping at me! soooooo annoying

It's my car that fucks me off

Always moaning about something

"your tyres have lost 0.0000000005% of their pressure"

"your washer fluid is getting low"

"you are driving too close" to the car 500m ahead

And the fucking seatbelt beeping / PIERCING alarm when my dog hasn't got a seatbelt on

Fuck right off wanker car