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 daughter has one that I hang up while she plays outside but I bring it in if its windy or when she comes inside. It pisses me off if its out overnight as it wakes me up in the morning. We treat it more like a play-musical instrument.

I have 3 and plan on buying more, I don’t care what the neighbours think.

There’s the Emo Philips joke, “My girlfriend bought me a wind chime which is nice because there’s nothing worse than sleeping through a sudden gust of wind.”

It caused neighbour wars in my old road, I was lucky I couldn’t hear them, but other neighbours took turns removing them.

I live in a 6 house terraced row. From left to right we have “ball bouncing boy”, kicks ball off his wall and bounces it for hours. Trampoline kids, self explanatory. Man with no mobile signal indoors, so is outside booming into his phone at regular intervals. Weed woman, lives in a weed infested jungle of a garden then occasionally does her weeding by burning them in a reeking fire in a metal drum. Then finally the stoners. You know they are in because the cannabis stench, and the mentally ill barking dog who is also presumably stoned, leave no doubt.
Im thinking I might get 10 wind chimes, a distraction for me if nothing else.

I note you also speak very loudly because you are partially deaf so don't recognise that you're practically shouting during everyday conversation.
You say you feel bad about it (disturbing other people I presume) but that you can't help it.

So why are you actively putting up chimes which may well disturb your neighbours?
Why don't you feel bad about it? Because you don't like or care about them, or is it one of those tit for tat situations?

My neighbours are cunts. If they weren’t I’d take my wind chimes down during strong winds & overnight.

Just found this thread because I bought some wind chimes yesterday, I'd wanted some like this for ages - but now I'm too scared to put them up outside in the garden 😔 😂

I hate them.

Our old neighbours got in a tit-for-tat noise row with their next neighbour and ended up with a shit load of them. It drove me bonkers.

About six months in her husband came into ours when he was locked our for an hour, was absolutely mortified by how much noise they created in our house and they were gone the next day.

Consider whether your neighbours will enjoy the noise, it’s not hard.
Thankfully after a chat with my neighbour she has taken hers down.

People clearly don't consider neighbours otherwise they wouldn't have them.

Or they do consider them but don't care mainly it seems because their neighbours bother them in some way.
It's a sad reflection of how many communities have broken down.

I imagine people think no one else can hear them; like there's an invisible sound-proof wall round their property. Or they don't think,which is most likely. Or they don't care,which they obviously don’t.

My lovely ndn's slightly tricky DH hung one at the bottom of the garden. The wind tends to come from that direction so ping clang clash reaches us loud and clear. I'm debating how to open the conversation without offending.

Hang the wretched things in your house and open a window,unless you live in Thailand where it's just about ok.

I have had them in the past. But I always had them inside. I like them. I like the sound but only occasionally. It would be annoying for it to be constant. So i would keep mine inside.

My neighbour does have one herself but it's definitely a "tinkly" one and I don't hear it much. But mine is potentially a bit louder - I will ask her and keep it inside if she isn't keen. Appreciate all the advice!

Don't be. I wish my neighbours had wind chimes rather than subjecting us to the maddening thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk of fucking balls getting bounced off their balcony floor.