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.

My mums got one... she hates her neighbours! They dont bat an eye when their knuckle dragging sons are screaming at their Xbox at 11pm at night...

I have them , but I can't stand my stuck up bastard neighbour so got them purely to bug them. 🤣. Gets windy as anything here too. 😈

I could listen to a thousand screaming children and dogs for eternity rather than a wind chime.

Of course some noise is reasonable.

I didn't do tit for tat. I just got something I always wanted but held off getting out of consideration. I could no longer justify that level of consideration to myself. It was more like, "Well, I guess I'll get those wind chimes I've always wanted. If they don't have to consider us, we don't have to consider them." Not, "How can I annoy the neighbours? I know, I'll get wind chimes."

I don't do tit for tat either but this is not that. I didn't get wind chimes at them, I got wind chimes for me and they made it acceptable.

I was given one. I binned it after about 2 hours, it was so irritating.

Lol😂

Bloody awful things. It’s like torture listening to their tuneless clunking.

Yes, I got some precisely to provide a distraction from the noise my neighbours make. We have spoken to them about their noise, and they couldn’t care less. I doubt they can hear our windchimes over their own noise, but I hope they can, and I hope it drives them crazy!

My neighbours in a 2 up, 2 down in a built up city area got a cockerel as a pet…… that really tested my sanity…….

Our neighbour had one that sounded like dustbin lids being bashed together. It wasn't twinkly. It clanged day and night for two years. They refused to do anything about it and it nearly drove me insane. Another neighbour cut it down eventually and threw it away. So they aren't all 'tinkly'.

I have a gorgeous wooden one that lets out the most lovely soft noise. HOWEVER I live in an ex pat gated community and my immediate neighbours are all expats.. the one side of us is nothing but mango trees..the other side is the identical house to ours..between both ours and next door neighbour..behind is three small 2 bed bungalows. The bungalows are all friends and come 2x a year..once for 2 weeks and once for one week and always seem to arrive within a day of each other.. the house beside us is an american couple that come 4x a year...for 4 days each time . During the time that the homes are occupied I take my wind chimes down. Its just good manners. If I ever have one of my neighbours sell to people that will live here full time.. well bye bye to my wind chimes (unless they are arseholes who blast music or scream all day)

wins the internet today! If I did AI generated art, I would do a picture of this. .....all the people hung up by their feet and their little heads clonking together

We have one, it goes up when we're outside. It forms part of my little boy's sensory garden, he's blind and disabled, unable to sit or walk but he can roll and the wind chime encourages him to move around his space independently, it's a a very low height so that he can reach up, feel it and hear the sounds. Due to the severity of his disabilities there are very few things he can play with, he doesn't shout, scream or lob balls over the neighbours' fences so I hope they don't mind the sounds of his windchimes every now and then.

Every summer I fantasise about going out in the dead of night and chopping down my neighbours. They're those wooden ones and they are awful. I can hear them all over the house when I have the windows or patio doors open. So irritating.

Wind chimes are horrible, horrible things that should only be allowed in horror films.

This surely comes under 'children playing', which comes under acceptable outside noise IMO.
All the best to your wee boy.

Ha ha! When the lack of apostrophe makes it much funnier!

Ours don’t… I’ve had very unholy thoughts about what I’ll do to them with said chimes

I'm noise sensitive and it would drive me so mad I'd have to dismantle the fucker politely and place on their doorstep. They don't even make a nice noise.

Is it also reasonable to kick a ball hard against a fence right by your windows for hours every day? That's children playing.

After years, it looks like my neighbour's kid might finally be outgrowing it but I'm not going to outgrow my wind chimes.

I'm quite noise intolerant as a rule but I like them. I find them a pleasant sound and if the neighbours hung some it wouldn't trouble me at all.

My last neighbour was the biggest arsehole I’ve ever met. Our bedroom is at the rear facing onto garages. He used to come out at all times of the day banging and crashing around, parking like a dick and generally being an absolute knob for no reason. Our petty revenge was to hang some chunky windchimes of an old satellite dish at the front of our house on the side so it was next the master bedroom, which was at the front! We couldn’t hear it but knew it was busy chiming as the wind tunnelled in front of the street. We came back after a weekend away and it had mysteriously fallen down and became damaged 🤣🤣. Didn’t bother replacing it. Super petty but if you ever met him you’d do the same!

Where I used to live, my next door neighbour had one of those wooden ones outside that I could hear. I absolutely hate them and asked her to take it down, which she did.

They're a noise nuisance and need banning.

OK - 'children playing reasonably'.
My sister lived next door to a fence kicker. Thankfully the parents understood and limited it.

Good neighbours then. My neighbours have set a precedent though, so the wind chimes aren't up for negotiation.

So many awful neighbours around.😕
I feel quite fortunate.