To ask neighbours to take wind chimes down

[DorothyL]

They're wooden and so bloody annoying

Would it be bad form to ask?

Annadale - are YOU my neighbour?? :) that's a good point but not really no. I only have one and where it's positioned now it doesn't chime as much and I certainly don't hear it if all windows are closed... If I knew someone was really bothered I would take it down I guess, can't see myself taking them down and putting them back on at random times...

No, I like the sound of wind chimes but would never have them as I know not everyone doesand it's pretty fucking rude to have something making a noise so other people can hear it.

I like grime as well but wouldn't keep a low level speaker playing it on my porch for the same reason

And it's worse in the fucking summer because people are more likely to have their windows open

I remember getting DD1 some on holiday once. They lasted about an hour before I got DH to take them down. So annoying.

I don't mind them but would never put them up. It's rude to make other people listen to your noise.

I would honestly ban them if I could

I hate them with a passion. They are so incredibly anti social. Why don't people them inside?? Next to a heater or the AC or a window, so they still catch a random breeze, but they're not inflicting them on anyone else.

But then, I had a neighbor once who had a whole wind chime collection in his garden. There were dozens of the effing things. It made such a racket. Then again, he would also sit outside in the evening playing his guitar (which was connected up to a sound system in the garden) and singing, or just set up music to play in the garden from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every weekend.

I spent many angry, sleepless nights fantasizing about chopping up all the wind chimes and snipping the wires in his speakers.... Grrr. It was such a lovely apartment, too. The landlady later told me she'd been complaining about him to the police and the council for years, but hadn't been able to do anything about it.

Ah, it's been a long time since we had a wind home thread on mumsnet.

*wind chime

I like the idea of posting one wind chime through the door every night at midnight...start tonight, it makes sense!

(BTW I kidnapped my colleague's "elf on a shelf" that he kept at work and sent a ransom note followed by elf body parts - from a specially-purchased-stunt-double-body-parts elf) inspired by that old Coronation Street storyline where someone kidnaps Derek and Mavis' garden gnome.

Wind chimes are the new pampas grass. Just saying.

a friend was on a caravanning holiday once and the caravan next door had wind chimes. Her OH snuck out in the night and sellotaped them all together

I am the most law-abiding person you could ever hope to meet, but I must admit that years ago, I climbed over a railing on to my neighbor's patio in the middle of the night and liberated her wind chimes. In my defense, she was out of town for an extended stay and left the damned things hanging on her patio which was adjacent to mine (terraced type houses). I left them on a chair on the patio, and she did not re-hang them when she returned.

I live in Florida. The wind blows all the damned time here so they were never silent.