To wonder why my neighbour doesn't feel bad about the racket her wind chimes are making?

[wildfellhall]

In this wind they're so loud - I guess she likes the sound?

I can't complain because she is a nightmare so I keep her sweet.

Could you cut them down with long shears

Yes you can complain.

I hate wind chimes, they're anti-social bloody noise and they drive me mad.

I taped my neighbour's chimes up with parcel tape in the Summer when she was on holiday.

She must've got the message because when she came home, she removed them, thank goodness.

"Oh no, they blew away? What a shame". 😈

cut them down while she’s out?

I took mine down, the are hand made and I didn't want to lose them.

I wouldn’t want to be up a ladder trying to get down wind chimes in this.

I didn't get wind chimes (which I love and wanted, but was a good neighbour), until my neighbour's unreasonable almost daily loud hobby started and persisted for many months (still going). Hence I don't feel bad about any noise they make, or if the neighbour likes or hates them, because I feel like if I have to deal with their racket, they can deal with me having wind chimes. How's your noise for the neighbour OP?

High fences mean my neighbours can't get to them. If they do somehow manage it, I get bigger ones. I will also install a camera and go to the police about harrassment and criminal damage and trespassing if they try. Then make a noise complaint about their hobby. I'm an easy, quiet neighbour (or was). This is what noisy neighbours drive you to.

This is the perfect night for them to disappear....just remember to leave a little sad piece of the string that secured them up failing in the storm....and hope she doesn't receive bigger, louder ones for Christmas!

What about your other neighbours though, or don't you have any?

The sound carries a long distance, especially on Summer nights when people need to sleep with their windows open.

I honestly felt like shoving my neighbour's chimes so far up her arse, her back teeth would've played a tune.

I feel your pain @wildfellhall. My neighbour 2 houses along lost a son in a tragic accident and she has a lovely little area of her garden set up with a nice bench etc where she likes to sit and remember him. And in her memorial garden are lots and LOTS of wind chimes 😓 of course, I can’t bring myself to say anything!

This.

One by one.

And then leave a dead crow.

You really want to go witchy with this one.

If you are serious your street sounds a very disturbing place to live. You must both be slowly going insane, although not that slowly, in your case, by the sounds of it. Can you not move?

My next door neighbours, who I like, have tinkly wind chimes that torment me in the summer when I’m trying to work and have the windows open. They’re metal- much worse than bamboo ones- and they never have to put up with the noise because they’re out all day.

Does this mean we cam also tape shut dogs who bark, kids who scream and parents who shout at said kids! All are life choices who create a nuisance noise to neighbours directly surrounding!

No other neighbours close enough to hear.

Not at all. I'm quite happy to live where I am. It's intermittent noise from the neighbour, and I've actually got kind of used to it and adapted. It was horrendous at first though. I've just lost any interest in caring about their comfort as a result of their lack of consideration. If they can make noise, so can I, right? I still texted them because I noticed a missing tile on their roof yesterday, so it's not hostile.

I hate being woken up by wind chimes or any other unnecessary annoying abd completely unnecessary item so I'd definitely cut them down and pretend the wind must have blown them away

I read that as 'leave a dead cow' 🧐 😂

Sounds like my idea of heaven 😍

Wind chimes are instruments of torture. One of our old neighbours had bamboo ones. All you heard 24/7 was "donk. Da donk. Donk. Donk"
Another had the tiny tinkly ones. It doesn't matter what they sound like. They're bloody noise pollution.

I honestly felt like shoving my neighbour's chimes so far up her arse, her back teeth would've played a tune

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@SmalllChange

I can't believe so many people are suggesting cutting them down. Can you sneak into someone's garden and break, damage or take anything that annoys you or is there a limit?

Anyway, I like wind chimes. Someone a couple of doors down from me have them and I love to hear them.

Wind chimes are appalling- they're the middle-class equivalent of screaming "Get 'ere naow!!" at your kids 24/7 with all your windows open.

They aren't something useful that happen to have an unpleasant noisy side-effect, like a lawn mower; they're wholly designed to send your neighbours postal.

Anybody who puts them up, unless they have no neighbours for a mile or more, is deliberately being anti-social and looking to make people hate them.

Wind chimes are an abomination but the solutions are gratifyingly promising. Frayed string, dead crows…

Long may this thread continue.

I'm amazed you can hear them in this weather. All I can hear is Darragh roaring down the valley.