Windchime-gate!

[WindChimeGate]

Name change for this.

My next door neighbours aren't bad neighbours, but my gosh do they get on my tits. They're in the garden from the crack of dawn until late at night, always working on some project or other, with drilling, sawing etc. They frequently park across our shared drive so I have to go and ask them to move if I want to go out. They've got dogs that don't bark much, but always do three or four times at 6am and I can never get back to sleep. Basically, they aren't particularly unreasonable (other than maybe the car thing) but I just find them irritating. It's made me realise that my next house will need to be a lot more private. Anyway, the other day I bought a wind chime. I know they're controversial, but just the one is surely acceptable? But neighbour has posted on our local Facebook group "is it just me or are wind chimes really antisocial"
No idea why she didn't just come round and talk to me about it. I feel like saying something now about all the things they do that piss me off! Is this my chance, or am I being too sensitive?

They should have spoken to you in person, tbh. Sounds like they've got a few things they need to sort out too!

But it doesn't change the fact that wind chimes are incredibly annoying at night 😉

Or write on the group "Isn't it annoying when people park across your shared drive so you have to ask them to move it?"

She should have spoken to you in person but wind chimes are selfish and anti-social.

If you want one, stick it indoors and turn the fan on!

As for all the other stuff, have you tried speaking calmly to them about it? It shouldn't take this to prompt a conversation.

Imo you need more chimes...

To me that comes across as a passive aggressive move on your part. That you won't say anything to them so you put up something guaranteed to annoy them.

I’d go out and buy 5 more. Ignore them and crack on.

Oh God. They do sound irritating, and yes she should have spoken to you...

But wind chimes are awful! My old neighbor had one and on breezy nights it kept me awake all night

I like windchimes 😊. You can get bamboo ones with lovely tones. I believe the myth is that they keep evil spirits away. The neighbours make a lot of noise in their garden doing what they wish. You can do the same in yours.

If you want to enjoy the sound of your wind-chime, put it up inside, by your door.

Don't subject your neighbours to it, especially not if they're outside and you're not.

Their noise is a separate thing, and if they're doing something that annoys you, tell them. But not as tit for tat for their windchime moan.

Wind chimes are horrid, really don't understand the appeal, they literally make horrible noise that's disturbs everyone locally?

Ignore and (given the neighbours are a PITA) leave them up!

Yup wind chimes are really annoying if you put them some place your neighbours have to hear them all night/day long when it’s windy.

She might be annoying but her stuff isn’t 24/7. Dogs, garden work and occasional annoying parking doesn’t compare.

Get rid of the wind chimes op.

Why not go round and say you saw the post and wish she had mentioned it to you as the last thing you want is to annoy them, and, that you're sure she must feel the same so please could she stop parking across your drive, and see whatever it is that makes the dogs bark at 6 - maybe the hot water coming on or something, so they stop waking you up.

Is it me or is blocking a shared drive antisocial would be my reply.

Well not really, they are bloody awful.

Wind chimes are a massive pain in the arse and YABU for putting one up - everything else is irrelevant. I think being passive aggressive on social media is usually uncalled for, but I make an exception for wind chimes. Unless you live in detached house in the middle of nowhere they’re a stupid and anti-social thing to have. Putting them up makes you look like a dick.

go and speak to them
The two instances are separate

I believe the myth is that they keep evil spirits away.

I suppose that’s just as well when your neighbours are all secretly cursing you for owning them.

Definitley take the opportunity to raise the things that piss you off in exchange for the windchime.

Ooh wind chime you’ve definitely top trumped your neighbours good thinking

Last year I was living in a house with 6 gardens all in a line next to each other, it was very hot/humid most nights and could not sleep, I could not open the windows to get air as the neighbour in house 1 (I was 5) had 2 wind chimes which made a noise every bloody day and night...... they are antisocial for everyone

Post back "Pop round for a cuppa and we can chat about it, we can chat about neighbours who park across shared drives or neighbours who's dogs wake people every day at 6am too, a nice neighbourly catch up "

I'd get another one just because of the fb post

I hate wind chimes. Used to let idiots know when there is wind. Someone near me has the wooden clonky horrors. Luckily I only hear them when walking past but I bet their neighbours despise them.

Actually this made me laugh from the OP...

No idea why she didn't just come round and talk to me about it. I feel like saying something now about all the things they do that piss me off! Is this my chance, or am I being too sensitive?

I've no idea why you didn't just go round and talk about all the things they do to piss you off.

It would've been more mature than buying wind-chimes and pissing all the neighbours off.

YANBU - I can appreciate from your neighbour's point of view that a windchime is well annoying if it makes noise, but to put a post in the local Facebook group about it would piss me off, can't they just come round and tell you in person?!
I'd be tempted to reply to the FB group with some kind of comedy gif of a bigger windchime in a passive aggressive response just like they did to show I'd seen it, but that's just me