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!

Is there nothing in life that makes you anxious? Makes you feel on edge all the time? Give you the fight or flight response?? Because that’s how me and a lot of other people feel about the constant noise of a windchime. Why you would inflict that on another person I’ll never know.

Do the planes go all night?

Do you still hear the planes?

I grew up under a flight path, and really don't hear the planes any more. I remember having to turn the TV up when a plane went over at first

@Daisydu Obviously I wouldn’t want to upset anyone with a phobia about it. I think though that if an everyday object or sound triggers you then there is help available. Yes I have had anxiety and I spoke to a counsellor. I realised that some of my triggers were irrational, and I wouldn’t want other people to stop living their life because of MY problem

the majority of the posters here are just being a-holes though

I agree with @Daisydu

I have anxiety due a tragic bereavement so I take medication.

If we stopped doing things that other people didn't like life would be very limited.

I meant I agree with @Starhead69

I’ve had counselling for it. Also anxiety medication. Doesn’t make a bit of difference. It’s hell. And if you want a windchime, tie it up when you’re not at home and at night. That would be the nicest thing to do. You don’t have to stop doing things, you can’t please everyone, but you can be considerate. Placing a loud constant annoying noise in your garden is bloody selfish, especially when you’re not even home!

I suggested this already 😊@Daisydu

thank you @MrsJHarker

I intentionally put noisy things in the garden that other people have to listen to but I gave birth to them so I’m not sure if that counts.

Awful things! My neighbour put a huge metal one up just underneath my bedroom window. They sleep in the front so wouldn’t hear it.
Our gardens are like a wind tunnel and funnily enough, they don’t seem to sit in it when it’s windy so I really don’t know why they bought it.
I however hear it all the time. In the summer I couldn’t have my window open at night and in the winter it didn’t stop chiming. It seems to be amplified in the stillness of the night and was just like having bell ringers outside my window.
I’m a placid person but this constant noise gives me the rage and I get fixated on it and cannot unhear it. If I hear them at any time of day they cause instant anxiety and instant rage.
Personally I would ban the things. Only use for them is to hang them by a front or back door (inside your house) so you can hear if anyone opens those doors.
YABVVU

Yabvu.

If you want one, put it up inside and point a fan at it.

One of my neighbours has a wind chime - lovely gentle sound. Really enjoy listening to it when I’m chilling in the garden.

Please don't. God awful things. My neighbour had a wooden one and it was fucking stressful having to listen to it all day and night. Neighbour was partially deaf.

I always thought they were naff but fell in love with one that sounded like the Indonesian instrument ( gamelin?) that I love so I put one up but Nature took its revenge in the shape of a fast growing wisteria which twined around and silenced it.

My neighbours kids scream and cry from morning till night....give me a wind chime any day!

Mine do the same. However at least the little darlings go inside and shut up when it gets dark. I can cope with most noise providing I’ve had enough sleep.

As my one night of trying to sleep with wind chimes shows me, the random noise all night is unbearable. This was at my parents’ house (remote, no neighbours in hearing distance) and resolved by me staggering into the kitchen for breakfast bleary eyed and demanding the instant silencing of the bastard things. These days my Dad puts the elastic band on before I even arrive.😂

My neighbours have three teenage boys who enjoy loud music and playing football in their garden with their mates, a hyperactive dog, a hot tub and a keen interest in drum practice. Reader, I bought windchimes, and I fucking love them.

I like a windchime. We have one right by our front door but don't actually hear it that often. Neighbours have never mentioned it! I think it probably doesn't pick up much wind where it is

Oh I can make a very stinky bonfire too, the windchimes would be such a relief!

I would b immediately hate you. Not really. But kinda!!

I put elastics around my husbands to silence them all the time. I HATE THEM.

but I would be outrageously unreasonable of me to decide you can’t put them on your property. Your home, your joy, your decision.

DO IT GIRL. Enjoy that garden.

As someone who's been made quite miserable by obnoxious incessant shrieking kids, barking dogs, leaf blowers, motorcycles etc, i say the OP should quite well do as she pleases!

Until parents keep their noisy kids indoors 24/7, no one had best tell me what to do in my garden.

Brava!

Same here.

That's how we feel about the neighbour kids.

Until they develop consideration for others, we do as we please.

My neighbour over 100 metres away has one ... very annoying in a strong wind. I like windchimes but it is frustrating that it makes a racket anytime day or night particularly when they aren't even there to give them the supposed enjoyment to offset my irritation at having no control over it's clanging.
Having said that i live in open countryside and hearing everyone gardening with powered tools and mowers drives me nuts if i want to enjoy nature.
But you need to do you..try it but don't be surprised if someone moans because it seems to be a preferred hobby in the modern age.😜

lol i totally read that as putting elastic (bands) round my (many) husbands to silence them 🤣 Thought ooo might that work with my husband for a brief second of peace.🤣