If you have a wind chime do you consider your neighbours?

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It's windy today.
I can hear my neighbour's wind chime. It's not a mellow wooden one, or a light twinkly one, rather it sound tinny and tuneless.

I wonder whether people with wind chimes consider whether their neighbours want to hear the noise?

If the wind picks up maybe it will blow down and break.

They aren't called wind chimes. They're called turning-your-neighbour-into-a-crazy-axe-wielding monster chimes.

if they considered their neighbours they wouldn't have a wind chime!

Agree.

MIL's house has a little stream running alongside it, the noise from it is so peaceful and soothing. Wind chimes, especially someone else's, cannot even come close.

Turns out I’m in the vast minority and everyone hates wind chimes! My neighbour has 12 in the garden, and they are just the ones I can see. I think they’re nice.

If you get new neighbours who have a few noisy dogs and screaming children, you'll miss those wind chimes! I've never understood the MN obsession with wind chimes yet screaming children are considered to be acceptable!

I have a bamboo one. The neighbours each side also have them. The three of us must drive others batshit!

I think it falls within the same box as screaming kids, garden music, DIY on a sunday morning and so on.....one man's meat.

I always take mine down if it's really windy. ..the noise is a bit overwhelming!

Or dogs or children or lawn mowers, in fact if they considered their neighbours they would have nothing that makes a noise!

I wish my neighbours had a wind chime. Instead they have a unwalked dog, who barks all day and night, and motorbikes.

YANBU. I hate the fuckers with a white hot passion. And to the poster who said that you can't hear them inside, try living in a terraced house with paper thin walls and adjoining patios as DH and I did a few years ago.

We have one, but then we dont have any neighbours. I would never have considered having one at our last house as I knew it would be a nuisance to others.

I don't have one but I love the sound. I don't think many people consider their neighbours? Next door have a cat that shits in our garden, the house at the back has a trampoline along the fence that borders our garden, the people who used to live the other side had an autistic child who used to scream in the garden all day long, amd a few doors down there's a really loud dog. I feel like most people have inconsiderate neighbours. So if you enjoy listening to wind chimes then why shouldn't you go for it?

I have one because I hate my neighbours and I want them to die move.

Is that you Sandra?

better to have a lawn mower than an overgrown garden!
I assume you're a wind chime owner?

I don't have or want screaming children either.

Can we just generally want people to be considerate of others and not have any of these annoying things?

I dont have any but they don't bother me at all, they aren't very loud, and its not a piercing or disruptive sound. I had a next door neighbour who had two for years, I'd occasionally hear them tinkling gently but it was infrequent and inoffensive. I'd prefer a neighbour with 10 windchimes over a neighbour with a dog, every time.

I would also say that i don't expect the outdoors to be silent. I live in a community, i expect to hear children playing noisily on a summers day, people occasionally playing music, the kid a few doors down practising an instrument. Im not bothered by neighbours barbecuing either.

When did we all get so intolerant of other people's sounds & smells?

Perhaps it's similar to the way outdoor cat owners think their neighbour's won't mind having their cat in their garden, or the people with giant leylandii don't worry about the huge shade cast by their "hedge".

Edit: think i quoted the wrong post there!

Dreadful things.

I don't have any, but I don't mind hearing them. I quite like them.

I considered my neighbours a lot when I got my selection of wind chimes . I considered how their dog barks 24/7, how they have bbq every time I hang washing out in summer, how their kids squirt me with water guns in summer and how they smoke weed by my conservatory window. After considering all this I got a few extra wind chimes plus an animal deterrent device (they have cats that poo in my garden). They hate both. I just smile and repeat back to them what they always said to me of I ever said anything about the dog/weed etc ‘we can do what we like on our own property’
Its a lovely windy day today and my wind chimes sound beautiful

My old neighbour put one up and it almost gave me a panic attack hearing the constant tinkle and that was 2 doors away. I went round to have a word and her teenage son opened the door. I explained and he laughed and said ‘I told her it was bloody annoying, I’ll take it down.’ And they did. You could try that!

I live in a city and I am not bothered by any of those things. I am however infuriated by and incessant plinky plonky ‘tinkle’ of a windchime. It’s noise pollution for pollutions sake.