...to moonpig a card to a neighbour to tell them to shut up?

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Every morning at 5:45am exactly; they leave their house and make a racket with their car. It wakes me up every morning and I cannot get back to sleep.

Options:

1. wear earplugs
2. close the window and sweat to death (we don't have the heating on, im just a hot mess)
3. ignore and go on feeling knackered
4. moonpig a card to politely ask them to be a bit more quiet when leaving their house so early?

I didn't include the option where I go and discuss this like adults, because, I'm too much of a wimp for that.

WWYD?

They are going to work. Yabu. Close your windows or move to your own island

A friendly chat along the lines of 'I know you've got an early start but the noise when you leave always wake me, would it be possible for you to try to make less noise when you're heading off for the day, I'd really appreciate it as I'm struggling to get enough sleep and it would be a big help'
If they are reasonable people and you haven't been a pain of a neighbour yourself they would at least consider it without being unkind, whereas a moonpig card would extinguish any goodwill you might have had.
If they aren't reasonable the moonpig idea is likely to make things worse!

That is assuming they are making excessive noise.... If they just walk out of the house, get in the car and leave as any normal person would then it's just tough and you'd be mad to expect them to make any changes

Couldn't you actually talk to them?

If they have to leave for work I can't see what they can do about general car noise.

Unless they are yelling down their phone or bashing metal around etc then there won't be much they can do. They have to go to work.

Why not knock on the door and have a friendly word?

You have my sympathy, this sounds a pain in the arse.

Stick a note on the car 'from the neighbours'?

As an alternative suggestion, I use a trick for expected noises like this that works brilliantly for me (though sounds a bit daft). If I know a noise is going to disturb my sleep I have 'a chat with my brain' as I settle down to sleep. The chat goes along the lines of 'remember that noise that always happens about 5.30, yes, that one, it's not a noise for us and that's not your waking up time, it's an irrelevant noise and no attention needs to be paid to it, relax, sleep on, waking up is later at 7am'

I know it sounds barking mad but it worked when I was sleeping on a boat and the person in the next cabin snored, there was night time engineering works on the nearby railway, the neighbours baby was crying etc etc so many examples.
I think you can get really upright and on edge about these kinds of things and it makes it worse, giving yourself permission to relax and ignore it makes a difference. Works for me anyway though I'm sure it won't for everyone obvs.

Get some background noise in your bedroom. Since my toddler has been cosleeping and we now have baby mozart on all night, the usual early morning comings and goings of the street disturb me far less. We have a lot of early starters in our street and the acoustics are awful (can hear someone having a normal volume conversation outside from 10 houses up)

If you want to sleep with your window wide open you’ll get some noise when your neighbours go to work. Obviously. Shut the window and get a fan. Or just go to bed earlier.

I presume the moonpig card thing was a joke.

Thank you so much for all your suggestions!! I wouldn't actually moon pig a card to their house, I saw it as a suggestion on another thread the other week and I was kind of referencing that.

Noise wise; often talking; often several of them about. But the exact noise that wakes me up and pumps adrenaline through me (hence not being able to sleep) is almost as if someone goes to all the door handles and Pulls them and lets them go , one at a time but very quickly one after the other - but it's so loud and "clacky" - not sure if I've described this right but it's so odd. I'll try and spy on them and see what it is.

I will definitely try this!

I had neighbours who would slam doors on my days off, I often used to leave home at 4.30am, I made sure I was quiet tho, offered to return the favour!
luckily they moved

Sounds like old central locking, my ancient jeep does that. Not that loud but would probably sound it at that time in the morning.

We live near a park so have dog walkers calling good morning from about 6am, neighbour has a contact alarm on his bike shed which can only be turned off once you've opened the door so you get a few seconds of an attack alarm sound, other neighbours are child minders and have a fair few early drop offs with inevitable cries and shouted goodbyes.

Ear plugs are the way to go! Lots only block out certain frequencies so you can still hear your house alarm, alarm clock or kids crying.

And it'll be cool enough to close the windows soon.

I hate noise so you have my sympathy but it doesn't sound like your neighbours are being overly loud.

That's the central locking on their car, presumably an older vehicle. Nothing they can do about that. I'd shut the window and put a fan on

Get a fan or run a white noise app on your phone and it will just block out the sound

Please talk to them like a grown up. Getting authorities involved or sending them a card is just so incredibly cowardly. It could be dealt with very quickly with a chat, they probably dont realise.

Ooo thanks for letting me know. At 5:45 I have the image in my head they're all stood around the car pulling on the door handles 😂

Will find something else to combat the noise. I'm a really light sleeper, which I understand doesn't help. Can't really wear ear plugs due to needing to hear my daughter in the night! Will have a think...

Unless they are being unreasonably noisy then I don't there is much you can do except for try to drown it out. Maybe shutting the windows and using a fan or a white noise machine to drown it out?

If you have a monitor just turn the volume right up and wear earplugs, you'll still hear her.

Feel for you op! My old neighbours had a car that was nothing to look at (so I thought) but was special to them and upon going out and coming home would leave the car running, just sat there for about 45 minutes. So he would come out at 5am to let the car run, then go back in until he was ready to leave when his wife and kids would come out to wave him off shouting bye. They were nice but it made me really dislike them. I could deal with the 6pm 45 minute car humming while it sat running when he got home, or even later after he got home, but the morning was a killer.

I posted about something so similar a few weeks ago! Loud noisy garage right below my room being openend at 5:45am every morning. It was a neighbour who doesnt live in our block and has their own garage two minutes down the road. He gets his e-scooter out to go to work. Was driving me absolutely insane. We get up around 6:20/6:30 anyway so it felt like he was stealing the last golden hour of precious sleep. I too got told it was UR to post a letter on the garage, but i should speak to him or his gf who i know a bit better than him. But i found out last week they have split up and he is likely moving out! YAY well selfishly for me haha, obviously not for them. I have offered to have a coffee with the gf so maybe will get to know here a little better. BUT now we have builders here painting the entire block and those neighbouring ones as well. So a bit of karma i suppose... but at least they dont arrive till 7am so i got my precious 40 more minutes sleep.

Our neighbour used to use his noisy exhaust car to get to work. He leaves about 5.30am so every morning Vrrmmm! for about 10 minutes (to warm something or other up) and then he'd be off. The car has been off the road for a while now (yay!) and I hope it won't be back on for a long while longer. I think once you know when the noise is going to start you automatically wake up before it happens, which is what was happening to us.
I think ear plugs are probably your best bet.

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Ah sorry you're all going through / have been through similar situations.

I know it's something I will live with; just seems unfair when I'm up a lot with my daughter and then that's the stretch she tends to sleep fairly well and it's being interrupted.

Will try ear plugs - they tend to always be pulled out in the middle of the night due to hurting my ears. So any good recommendations would be great. The best I've found so far are the Howard Leight ones - but even these I find uncomfortable.