To go and take next doors wind chimes down?

[Splodgerbodgerbadger]

I hate the noise wind chimes make, and realise that my hate of them is my problem. Our neighbours have some in the trees in their back garden and they drive me mad at times. I haven’t said anything to them as they are doing nothing wrong.

But they have moved out and the house is up for rent and they have left them up, would IBU to go and take them down and leave them laid in their garden so they wouldn’t make a noise but could find them if they come back for them?

Yes! Take them down, then send them to me so I can add them to my garden collection!

So let me understand the logistics of this.

You bought metal wind chimes but you installed them 80 feet away from your own house in your garden. You claim they are in a sheltered corner (there is no such thing where wind chimes are concerned as even the slightest breeze with activate them).
You don't mention if you sit out in your garden to enjoy said windchimes and so by that I'm assuming you don't.
You only take them down when the weather is inclement and in the winter. If you don't hear them the rest of the year, why do you bother taking them down?

Please remove your windchimes. Who is nearer to the windchimes, you or a neighbour?

I'd be straight out there ripping them down and binning them. Then can you come over to mine and bin my actual neighbours who have the doors and windows open from 11am until at least midnight and communicate by shouting at the top of their voices. I need to do some weeding today and I will have to wear earplugs. Maybe I should get some very large windchimes to piss them off, trouble is they would annoy me too. Hope your new neighbours are peaceful and considerate

Yes, sadly our neighbour sleeps at front of house so it’s us they wake throughout the night, not them.

Absolutely take them down except don’t leave them there, throw them in the bin or put them under a large rock, taking care to lift the rock high and then smash it down smartly.

You’ll regret it if you leave them there, they will get hung up again, you can count on it.

Take them down asap.

Definitely do this. They are insanity-and-migraine-inducing torture devices. They should be banned.

In the past, I've hobbled neighbours' chimes (tied them up so they can't make noise) while the chime-owners still lived in their house, so I would definitely have no qualms about removing them from the grounds of an empty house. And please don't leave them on the ground or the next lot might hang them again!!

I adore the sound of wind chimes, instantly relaxes me!

Do it OP - rid the world of at least one of the bastard things!

Don't leave them in the garden. They might get put back up. Hide them somewhere then return them if / when you or they move house.

do it and get rid of them for good

Wind chimes are one of those things one wants to like, that seem like a good idea in theory but in practice, sadly, they are very annoying.

Go for it, we will stand by and hum the mission impossible theme while you do your ninja moves and do it, and what is more keep an eagle eye out for returning neighbours. You will be the unsung hero of your street for doing it.

Yup @SmirnoffIceIsNice if you have neighbours they absolutely hate your wind chimes. Guaranteed.

Take them down and bin them. Don't leave them as the new inhabitants might put them back up

Yes! We will do this with you op 😀😂

Do it, do it now. Some people are oblivious to the distress they cause others.

Absolutely 100% take them down, and then burn them! They are torture devices.
I grew up with several outside (well, just below) my bedroom window as my mum loved them. I begged her to take them down as they drove me nuts at night, but because she couldn't hear them (her bedroom was on the opposite side of the house) she wouldn't.
I would happily destroy any, and every, wind chime in existence!

Absolutely do it.

Mine are made from recycled cutlery and I would. Although I'd never leave them in the first place.

/ UNREPENTANT

And my neighbours like them, so nyah.

Do it!

Why have them at all if you can’t even hear them? Many neighbours (like the OP) say nothing out of politeness and suffer silently. Horribly antisocial things. Fine if you live somewhere isolated, but otherwise noise pollution.

OP, now is your chance! Take them down but either bin them or put them away somewhere - and not in your neighbour’s garden or the people renting will put them up again.

I recommended taking them down but I do have a fondness for wind chimes made out of cutlery. I was given a wind chime, a teapot with tiny cups and spoons hanging from it, it is so cute, I love it. But I have it in my kitchen where it can’t float about and make noise, just look at and enjoy 😂

Definitely remove them and ideally beat them into an effigy of your former neighbours, then burn them at midnight as the climax to a Black Mass.

@kingtamponthefurred I think you’re needed over on the sanitary products thread, if it’s still going.