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Cutting grass at 8:30 on Sunday morning?

346 replies

Thanksforthat123 · 09/05/2021 08:31

As a one off, because we have a bouncy castle coming, we are cutting the grass at 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Next door have just shouted out of their window. 🙈
AIBU? It’s not something we have ever done before or plan to repeat. I kind of think one off things you suck it up a bit? Same as the odd occasion their dog is barking outside my bedroom window at 11pm.

OP posts:
MyGrassIsBrowner · 09/05/2021 10:15

@Cam2020

8:30 is fine! Lazy bastards!
LOL
PhilCornwall1 · 09/05/2021 10:15

I'd be absolutely raging if my neighbours did this.

Raging? What state do you get in when something bad happens?

Maggiesfarm · 09/05/2021 10:15

Could you not have mowed your lawn yesterday evening?

0830 is a bit too early for a weekend. Did your neighbour really open the window and shout out at you? I can't imagine it, I think I'd want to move if I had neighbours like that! However I don't blame them for being cross about the noise, having a lie in at the weekend is something to look forward to.

mogsrus · 09/05/2021 10:16

Love the sound of lawn mowing,so no it wouldn't bother me& what difference does a Sunday make? Just another day after all,people have different lives, you annoy them,the dog annoys you. karma I think

gannett · 09/05/2021 10:16

Absolutely too early. A lawnmower makes a hideous noise. You wouldn't appreciate your neighbours having a party at that hour, would you?

Cutting the grass is in no way a necessary task either.

If you must do it, though, at least pop round to give your neighbours a polite heads up.

kowari · 09/05/2021 10:17

All days of the week are the same to me in regards to noise. I work Monday to Friday but in the past my weekend has been Monday and Tuesday, or split Wednesday and Saturday. Everyday is someone's weekend, everytime someone's bedtime. I wouldn't mow between 8pm and 8am as most people sleep at night time but there is always someone who won't be happy if you mow at 10am sleep in time, or 1pm naptime, or 7pm children's bedtime, you can't win.

Hollyhead · 09/05/2021 10:18

I’d have waited until 9 but it’s not awful as a one off

JackANackAnoreeee · 09/05/2021 10:18

It is a bit early but as a one off I really wouldn't sweat it too much.

Annetisa17 · 09/05/2021 10:19

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Thatisnotwhatisaid · 09/05/2021 10:20

I think there’s an unwritten rule not to disturb people on a Sunday before 10am, 9 am on a Saturday. Maybe it’s just how I was raised but my Mum wouldn’t let us play out early incase we disturbed the neighbours.

WestendVBroadway · 09/05/2021 10:21

@Brefugee

I'd be ringing your doorbell every day for a month when i left for work at 5am if you were my neighbour. You are absolutely fucking unreasonable.
I used to have a neighbour who left for work at 5am every morning. We knew this because they slammed their front door and revved their car engine waking all the neighbourhood. But hey it's okay as long as we didn't make a noise at 08:30 on a Sunday. Yes, @Brefugee, I do realise this wasn't actually you, but just trying to make a point that we all get up at different hours.
crimsonlake · 09/05/2021 10:24

Far too early, I would not be happy but certainly not complain to you out loud.
I agree you should have mowed earlier in the week and feel for your neighbours having to later on listen to noise in your garden from a party all day as well.

Ideasplease322 · 09/05/2021 10:28

Too early- a lot of people have a lie in on a Sunday morning.

My personal rule is not before 9:30am on Saturday and not before 11am on Sunday. It’s rare in my neighbourhood for people to cot the grass very early.

I don’t think there is any emergency that calls for early grass cutting.

Mrgrinch · 09/05/2021 10:29

What did they shout?
Do they know you're having a bouncy castle?

Maggiesfarm · 09/05/2021 10:29

It's true that weekends are different for everyone, some people work then. I wouldn't make any noise if I had to out early on any day but for me, weekends meant we all had a good lie in and I would not have been impressed to be woken by a lawn mower at 8.30am. 10am is early enough.

S111n20 · 09/05/2021 10:31

Wouldn’t of bothered me at all as a one off.

tentosix · 09/05/2021 10:32

Neighbor is being a dick. That's not early.

ellsbellsfells · 09/05/2021 10:33

I think there’s an unwritten rule not to disturb people on a Sunday before 10am, 9 am on a Saturday

I'm in my 50s and I've never come across this unwritten rule before. Maybe because I grew up in a rural area where noise was normal from dawn till it got dark, and after than in summer.

To go against the grain, I don't think you were unreasonable. I work shifts so 8.30 on a Sunday is no problem for me. My retired neighbours cut their lawns and trim their hedges on weekday afternoons when I'm sometimes trying to sleep but I don't say anything about it. If you live in an area with neighbours close enough to disturb you, you have to expect occasional noise. If it became a regular issue then I might pop round and try and negotiate with the neighbour but as a one off, I wouldn't get upset about it, and definitely not to the level of some posters on this thread.

mogsrus · 09/05/2021 10:35

Strange isn't it,everyone hates other people for doing this or that,no one these days just gets on with own life,they have to moan about something,just step back & think for a while,were not on this earth that long so just keep quiet,& maybe, just maybe people will start liking each other again,wouldn't that be nice!

roguetomato · 09/05/2021 10:36

I think you could have given them a heads up. Especially the grass cutting early Sunday morning followed by bouncy castle.

ElderMillennial · 09/05/2021 10:39

@JinglingHellsBells

8.30 is not early.

Who are all these people not up at that time? Hmm

Do you not realise that not everyone has your life and gets up at the same time as you?
DragonDoor · 09/05/2021 10:40

I don’t think it’s big deal. It’s not like it was 7am.

Dog outside barking at 11pm? That’s very inconsiderate.

MizMoonshine · 09/05/2021 10:43

I don't get the people who treat Sunday mornings as some sacred time when children aren't allowed to breathe before 10am and anyone in a terraced house must hold in their farts.

If you can't sleep through a lawn mower in your neighbours garden, you need to soundproof or live in an area where there are no other people.

Some people work nights and have to adjust to everyday noise during the week.

You don't get to decide when your neighbours live their lives.

Now your lawn at 8am, let the kids out when they wake up and ask to be set free. Listen to the radio in your garden. Live your best life.

Bluedeblue · 09/05/2021 10:43

People with small kids who are up at the crack of dawn seem to forget that others may want a lie in - especially on a Sunday. You were being massively unreasonable.

Your poor neighbours have been woken up by your noisy mower and now they have to listen to kids on a bouncy castle all day. Poor sods.

Irishterrier · 09/05/2021 10:43

I don't think it's that bad - we are always up by 7am - but I would have waited til 9am.

Bit OTT to shout at you though! Our neighbours often have loud music but I don't really mind as if you have neighbours, that goes with the territory.