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Original poster

oh God WIND CHIMES

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maktaitai · 31/05/2010 18:28

my neighbour has put up two sets today on her shed

dh is hypersensitive to noise

OH GOD

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expatinscotland · 31/05/2010 18:59

their, sorry.

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 31/05/2010 19:01

You can complain to the council about windchimes. Seriously. My parents very petty neighbours complained to the council about my parents windchimes. Council wrote my parents a lovely letter asking them to keep the noise down and informing them of a complaint. I used to go out and rattle the windchimes on purpose. Not because I'm evil, but... okay, I'm a little evil

(Both owned their houses, so was to local council rather than housing association)

LeninGrad · 31/05/2010 19:02

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southeastastra · 31/05/2010 19:02

twee hippy shite i hate them too. knock and tell them it's annoying!

FakePlasticTrees · 31/05/2010 19:04

can you tell them the noise is rather annoying, and would they mind taking them down when they aren't using the garden - if they aren't in the garden it's not like they will be getting benefit... (and just grin and bare it when they are using the garden)

Or - can you play some rage against the machine very very loudly next time they are out in the garden, then if they complain, explain you hate the sound their windchimes make and are just trying to drown out the sound? (and of course will turn off the music when the wind chimes come down)

Or - could you sneak over in the middle of the night and fill them with a combination of catnip and whiskers and look sympathetic over the fence when they are dealing with the carnage the local cats have done? possibly nodding sagely and telling them you'd heard that windchimes attract cats and put them in some sort of frenzy, and say they are lucky this time it was just the chimes that got it, frenzied cats have been known to tear up whole gardens...

SixtyFootDoll · 31/05/2010 19:04

I dont likewind chimes BUT if you cant hear
them in your house, then I think you are being very precious about it.

Earlybird · 31/05/2010 19:45

Why would deaf neighbours put up windchimes?

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maktaitai · 31/05/2010 20:22

no, tis true we are being precious - it's happened today and dh is ill and threatening suicide and we are overwrought

tbh i wouldn't do a thing about it, i wouldn't care myself, i certainly wouldn't write a letter [shudder] that's much too extreme

but i am not the one who works in the bloody shed two feet away from them!

liking the frenzied cat option especially as the neighbours themselves have two cats

earlybird, they have a hearing loss rather than profoundly deaf - hence wind chimes no doubt will sound like distant winsome tinkle

a school friend of mine was in mediation over wind chimes for 6 months - she'd spent so long looking for a quiet place to live, it really does get to you when a change like this happens. i do know it's not exactly stray gunshots over the fence. i'm much more worried over what dh will do one day when I'm not there to talk him down, rather than by the windchimes themselves. oh well.

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expatinscotland · 31/05/2010 20:28

mak, he needs to get some help.

or move out to a detached house in the countryside.

seriously.

you can't hear them in your bedroom.

if it were me and you said you wanted to go to mediation over wind chimes you can't hear in your bedroom, in a residential/urban area, i'd tell you to bring it on, let's go to court.

because that is being ridiculous.

it's not loud, thudding music, parties, arguing, DIY at ridiculous hours, engines, illegal business being run from home, etc.

and, having lived in the countryside, there's other noise. farms don't exactly start work after 9AM and finish at 5.

wildlife and livestock make noise day and night.

southeastastra · 31/05/2010 20:30

it's the little things that can drive you demented though expat seriously it would bug the hell out of me too

expatinscotland · 31/05/2010 20:31

meh.

too many fuckwit neighbours with loud parties and thudding bass/music for windchimes to even register anymore.

i'm so fecking sick of other peoples' damn music.

LadyBiscuit · 31/05/2010 20:32

I have windchimes outside my back door. The longest one is about 3 inches long and they only make a noise when I brush my head against them.

FFS some of you really need to get a life. Try living next door to a crackhead. Your DH needs help

southeastastra · 31/05/2010 20:33

well it's so quiet round here, even the birds chirping can be annoying

Coderooo · 31/05/2010 20:33

and your farts?

expatinscotland · 31/05/2010 20:34

'Try living next door to a crackhead.'

that's what i'm saying!

the flat downstairs is used by the council to house the homeless, and as it's a one bed, it's an endless procession of fuckwit criminals and druggies who are up till all hours blaring music, partying and arguing.

you want to see wound up and nervous?

i have to take tranqs every time someone moves out of there for fear the next one is going to be even worse.

ant3nna · 31/05/2010 20:34

Perhaps your DH needs to do his work in the house where he can't hear the windchimes then. What would you do if a young family with a baby moved in next door?

southeastastra · 31/05/2010 20:37

dp's farts are annoying.

you can't say 'try living next to a crack head' it's not annoying neighbour top trumps.

i can totally see how twinkly chimes can drive you mental.

LadyBiscuit · 31/05/2010 20:38

Exactly expat. I saw her coming back from the tube today with a 'friend' and her pot full of cash - she begs outside the tube with a sign saying 'homeless and helpless' and people give her money because she looks pathetic and is a middle aged woman.

But actually she lives in a 2 bed housing association flat. I am tempted to tell people the real story but I know she knows so many dodgy people that I'll just get turned over (again) that it's not worth it. Huge fuck off windchimes would be a pleasure in comparison

expatinscotland · 31/05/2010 20:39

they're wind chimes, south.

if he has a problem with even that he has no business living in an urban area.

because on a scale of what's unacceptable, wind chimes aren't going to be that high up there.

LadyBiscuit · 31/05/2010 20:40

But SEA you could say that about anything - music, children playing in the garden, whatever. God knows we get enough people on here thinking it's absolutely fine for their kids to be screaming about from 7am and that it's absolutely unreasonable for anyone to complain about them. If I were working from home, I'm prefer windcharms to a load of over-exuberant home-ed kids any day

southeastastra · 31/05/2010 20:40

yeah in your opinion? our neighbour three doors away had them, they spooked me out!

expatinscotland · 31/05/2010 20:41

they spooked you out.

windchimes.

and i thought i'd heard it all on the dog thread.

cocolepew · 31/05/2010 20:42

My friend cut down her neighbours windchimes under the cover of darkness

southeastastra · 31/05/2010 20:43

they're unnerving seriously!

i guess we all get wound up by different things

they're quite popular in the US aren't they?

HecateQueenOfWitches · 31/05/2010 20:44

Does your husband have asd?

Because my children have autism and are both very sensitive to noise and it causes all sorts of problems. The way you describe your husband reacting to this situation sounds so ott that I can only assume there is something like asd?

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