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?

There are a couple of reasons I've never spoken to them about the things that annoy me. The main one is that it is their garden at the end of the day, and while it is annoying it is their right to do what they want in it. Other than the car situation, I wouldn't say they are actually being unreasonable, just a bit annoying. But I then expect the same from them. If they're going to be funny about my wind chimes then clearly we aren't on the same page! The other reason is that there are some serious problems between them and their other next door neighbours which started out over something very silly and minor. I don't want a full on dispute so have always felt it's best to just put up with it.

With a wind-chime you are putting something in your garden that will be making noise all night, that's annoying and anti-social.

You can't compare sitting in your living room and them being in the back during the day, to something clanging through the night.

If you want a wind chime, carry it out when you are in the garden.

The evil spirits can still get in round the front.

Sorry, but YABU. Wind chimes are the work of the devil, imo!

Can you move the chimes to a part of the garden away from them? I too find them annoying but if it was on the otherside garden it wouldn,t be soo annoying.

I have spent many years arguing with my mother over wind chimes. She refuses to accept that some people don’t like them.

But - could you make a joke out of it? Say you’ll take hem down if they stop blocking the driveway. The penalty for parking over your driveway is a week of windchimes😊

I LOATHE wind chimes. You’re basically forcing everyone to listen to them and that’s not fair.

If your weather is like ours, it is particularly windy at the moment, and that's when they can get annoying. A sensible compromise might be to take it down until the winds have dropped a bit.

I’d hate you as a neighbour. Wind chimes and any other unnecessary noise (music etc) imposed on others should be banned.

Just leave a comment saying, about as anti social as parking across a shares drive, then a laughing emoji. 😂

I love wind chimes. I have a massive set that is bigger than me that was a gift from Japan. Sadly they have spent the past 20 years sitting in their box because I like my considerate neighbours but I was thinking last night how amazing they would sound in the 35 mile an hour wind that was blowing.

You may as well send a six year old out to play the recorder forever.

How about a bit of mind fuckery. Agree with them on fb about how much you dislike wind chimes, they’re anti social , should be banned blah blah...
Mwahh ha ha ha !

My neighbour put up some wind chimes last summer.

I'm very noise-averse and an insomniac, and was all prepared to find them intolerable, but I actually sort of like them. I wake in the night most nights, and they don't stop me from going back to sleep at all, and in the daytime I find them quite pleasant, almost soothing. Perhaps they're unusually harmonious ones or something.

The child that seems to spend all day skateboarding to and fro past our house, on the other hand, drives me utterly fucking demented.

I would have posted along the lines of

It’s a pity there is so much antisocial behavour going on at the moment, my neighbours keep parking across the drive and I have to knock to get them to move , not to mention dogs barking at 6am waking us up

Have you asked them to permanently stop parking across the drive, or do you just ask them to move it each time?

Somebody near us has a set of them. They’re horrendous, especially in hot and windy weather when the windows need to be open. I wouldn’t mind (as much) if they took one out for when they’re in the garden and took it in at night.

Windchimes are the worst thing in the history of the world. Yabu.

Don’t post. Take your wind chime down. Text or email your neighbour to say their lost made you laugh then think and ye S they are annoying.
Next time something happened which annoys you speak to them (eg car across drive - ffs!).

Ie - no games. No passive aggressive nonsense. A bit of respect and you might get some back of you need to speak to them. They are neighbours - don’t start trouble !

but just the one is surely acceptable?

My ndn has just the one. The slightest breeze and it’s like a tray of cutlery has been chucked into a washing machine. I can’t sit anywhere in my garden in peace unless it’s a totally windfree day.
Lawn mowers/chainsaw/traffic I don’t bother, about as you know that’s going to stop at some point, but windchimes are incessant.

where did you get the wind chimes.... asking for a friend?

I really want wind chimes now!

Love how many people hate wind chimes but think that playing music in your garden is okay.
I personally hate the sound of children screeching at each other (far more than windchimes) but it's just part of living near other people sadly.

The other reason is that there are some serious problems between them and their other next door neighbours which started out over something very silly and minor. I don't want a full on dispute so have always felt it's best to just put up with it.

So now the poor fuckers who live on the other side can add your wind chimes to their problems.

Take them down and stop being selfish.

'Oh I'm sorry! I find they relax me a bit when your dogs wake me at six every morning, I find it so hard to get back to sleep and the chimes relax me a bit more. Sorry HUN' :)