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

[BringBackCatsEyes]

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.

Isn't that the point of a wind chime?

My husband masking taped our neighbour’s ones together one night 30 years ago-they were hung on their front porch opposite our bedroom window jangling day and night. They disappeared and weren’t replaced.

I have mine hung on a curtain rail inside the house, so when the patio door is open they tinkle rather than chime. I love the sound, they are not intrusive to any neighbours.

I love them but I know lots of people hate them so I don't have any.

My ideal would be for the neighbours to have some so I can hear them but not feel guilty

Then you have considered your neighbours. Thank you.

An update:
I plucked up the courage to speak to the woman. I was anxious that she might just say 'nah.....I like it, your problem', but she didn't.
She's had them for years, but recent tree work has meant the wind has freer access to the darn thing.
Honestly, the things have been driving me to distraction.

They are straight from hell. I hate them with a passion. Years ago our neighbour put some up. I told them in general conversation that I found them really irritating ( I didn’t directly ask them to take them down). Luckily they removed them… thank god! It beggars belief that people think it’s ok to have that constant noise - it’s as bad as yapping dogs!

I thought about what I was going to say while I was out running.

Don't ask.
Don't tell her they are making me murderous and I think she is a self-absorbed whatnot.

Knocked on the door - please can you take your wind chimes down, I find the noise annoying and they are stopping me enjoying my garden.

Ha ha I have one that my neighbour gave me as a gift. She has a really nice one and when I told her that I liked hearing it, she got me one too. But we live in a VERY rural area so we are the only people that hear hers and she ours so we're all good!

You both sound like good neighbours.

These ones sound like dustbin lids.

Absolutely, she and her family are the best and I've made her promise never to move away just in case!

Oh no, the clanky ones are the worst, I feel your pain

I have two (they were given to me as presents, would never have bought one) I make sure they are wedged in the rose bush so they dont make a noise and I put them away in winter

They are indeed the devil’s own work. There’s no way I could live in a hippy commune if they had these chimes around. Would send me insane.

Aren’t they not allowed in built up areas? I’d have to train my cat to catch it, or some of the neighbourhood foxes.

They’re one of the most pointless things ever.