To get a windchime??

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Moving house soon, finally I will have a beautiful garden to make my own. I have coveted a particular type of windchime (fairly expensive, gorgeous deep resonant sound) for literally ten years. A currently active thread has inspired me to ask: is it in fact unreasonable for me to put one up in my garden?

Doubts have niggled at me about the fact that obviously neighbours will be able to hear it, and I've wondered whether it's ok to put it up; BUT, then I've thought, windchimes are as popular as ever, surely it's not unreasonable to put one up?

So mumsnet please help with my extremely mundane conundrum. I'm torn between my yearning for this lovely windchime I've wanted for a decade, and my disinclination to irritate and bother my new neighbours. Help! POVs welcome!

Windchimes are really popular. With the people who own them. Their neighbours aren't always quite so enamoured.

I think if you only hang it up when you are actually spending time outside in the garden then fair enough for a couple of hours, but don't leave it there all the time.

LOL I bet money you don't care, you'll buy it anyway.
If anything, hearing that it will probably annoy your neighbors has only moved your further at the direction of getting one.

If you were a reasonable person, just by asking this, you answer your own question.

But you wanted to vocalise your intention to annoy your neighbors, a bit like a wind chime yourself :D

And how is your comment any different?

I voted YABU

It's a waste of space and resources and you'll piss off the neighbours

If it's large enough, it'll be stolen for scrap

What wind chimes are so big they take up space AND resources ?

This is me we finally spoke to the neighbour they have at least 3 my husband pointed one out you could tell she didn’t realise she had it. She took the most awful one down that would clank all the time she was stroppy but I can go back in my garden and spend time in it I can open my windows I’m so happy

kids screeching people drilling etc etc are all temporary a wind chime is 24/7 they shouldn’t be sold the vast majority of UK residents don’t have plots so big that their neighbours don’t suffer

YABU

That’s not how it works those of us who hate them can’t even bare the possibility of them chiming the dread is awful so we stopped using the garden and opening the windows

I would put headphones on to put washing on line that was all I would go in the garden for. This went on for 2 years until we spoke to them

the neighbour are very old maybe they didn’t realise how bad the noise was

Horrible, horrible things when you have to listen to someone else's every time you are out in your garden. If you know your neighbours are going to be able to hear it then why would you think it was ok to inflict it on them?

And people using pneumatic drills aren't generally doing it just because they like the noise they make.

My mums neighbour had one that used to drive me demented, it made sleeping in the spare room almost impossible. I like the sound of them, and I think if she’d silenced it overnight, that would have been fine. I think you can have one but I would make sure however it’s installed that you can dampen/silence it, at will, otherwise YABU.

YANBU. I live next door to people that have one, even though they aren’t my personal cup of tea I don’t mind it at all. My parents have one as well, I think it makes a nice little noise. Life is short. If you want a wind chime then just get one, if the neighbours don’t like it then they would say. Otherwise just hang it on the inside of your house

I hate them. It feels like someone is trying to engineer a relaxing, calming atmosphere and it makes me feel on edge and annoyed, I’m not even sure why but it’s such a strong reaction. I’ve no problem with general sounds of neighbours, kids having fun and splashing in paddling pools, those normal sounds of people living their lives.

but children go to bed, dogs are shut up inside, people go inside.....

windchimes though, they're just there ALL THE FUCKING TIME

I have a lovely wind chime which I put in my garden. For 2 nights I lay in bed listening to the lovely noise but I was super aware that, hmm maybe my neighbours won’t be as keen as me, so after 2 days I moved it into my dining room. Sadly some people just aren’t socially aware. Not referring to OP who obviously is aware, hence the thread.

Just ask them if they are bothered? I love windchimes.. find the sound really relaxing. A lot of people do love them that's why they exist! And a lot of people don't mind them at all and couldn't give two hoots about them... some people hate them. Just ask your neighbours because there's a chance they might hopefully be in the first two categories and you can have your windchime up guilt free. And if not perhaps you can reach a compromise about taking it inside at night or something?

Meh, like I said I hear noises all through the night here. I would rather hear a windcharm than a man and woman screaming at each other.

Also… if you get a small wind charm it can’t be that loud? If it’s a windy night surely windows are shut so they wouldn’t be as disturbing as half of youse on here are making out.

Why not just say, ‘Alexa, play Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On in a terminal loop’ and be done with it? They are relentlessly awful and unnecessary things.

I’d rather hear neither.

Yes get one. There's nothing I hate more than being able to sleep when it's windy.

Well yeah, but if you had to pick one I’m sure you’d go for wind chimes

Ds suffers from that. Our neighbours have a windchime at the front of their house and it doesn't bother me at all. Both us and ds have front facing bedrooms and in the summer we like our windows open except ds would rather sleep in a sauna than listen to those wind chimes all night.

I live under a flight path so I wouldn’t care a jot if a neighbour got a windchime 😂

Get one, they sound lovely and calming. Perhaps take it down or put something round to stop it chiming at night and when it’s really windy

God they are some really over sensitive people on here