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Summer is coming and the neighbours are getting loud

TheCatWoman

I love to garden, but the neighbours i the street over the hedge where several houses back on to our garden are getting ever louder, loud to the point where I don't want to be out there at weekends, after school and in school holidays, it feels to stressful with competing music from different houses, people shouting and talking and kids shouting and screaming. It's making me want to move house again, but thats not possible yet.

I've had noise cancelling earphones sugested to me, but have then been told that they cancel background noise but not speach, whats the point, thats what I don't want to hear? The other problem I have with headphones is that I have PTSD and if someone comes up behind me, I jump so bad I have a massive adreniline overload, followed by exhaustion and feeling upset, weepy and horrible for the rest of at least that day.

I dont' xpect anyone to be able to help, I just want to let off steam at feeling unable to use my garden on what has been one of the best days of the year so far weather wise.

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  • There are various designs of headphones & earphones, some of which might be more to your liking than others.  Of course, it is unreasonable in one sense that you should have to consider wearing anything like that at all.  It does seem that people are getting louder in general, or perhaps have less inhibitions than they once had. 

    Perhaps you could consider something you were able to use in your own garden, where nobody was likely to come up behind and startle you? 


  • in reply to overwhelmed & underwhelmed

    I don't have loads of money and I hate wasteful spending, having to buy a load of earphones etc to see if there are any that work for me sounds like a lot of money, I don't have £500 to spend on ear phones which is what the best ones seem to cost. Is there anywhere they can hired from so as I an see what if anything suits? So many companies won't allow returns on things that are close to your body, would head or ear phones come into this catagory?

    I think the only way to solve this problem is for me to move house, the road we live on has got much busier since covid, people sit in thier cars waiting for the level crossing gates to rise and we can hear all thier music and phone calls, even though we have good double glazing and have the telly on. 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    So many companies won't allow returns on things that are close to your body, would head or ear phones come into this catagory?

    If you wanted to try Loop Earplugs*, then they can be returned within 100 days, even after you've been using them to try them out.

    I'm not sure what kind of mobile phone you have, but Apple's noise cancelling AirPods - just for example - can also be tried and returned within 14 days, even though they're also an in-ear product.

    The cheapest ones with noise cancellation are currently £129: Apple Online Store  

    *Referral link giving a discount on first purchase, excl. discounted bundles. 

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    So many companies won't allow returns on things that are close to your body, would head or ear phones come into this catagory?

    If you wanted to try Loop Earplugs*, then they can be returned within 100 days, even after you've been using them to try them out.

    I'm not sure what kind of mobile phone you have, but Apple's noise cancelling AirPods - just for example - can also be tried and returned within 14 days, even though they're also an in-ear product.

    The cheapest ones with noise cancellation are currently £129: Apple Online Store  

    *Referral link giving a discount on first purchase, excl. discounted bundles. 

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  • in reply to Bunny

    I don't have a smart phone and would be very dubious about getting one and I've heard as many bad things as good about apple, so would be doubly dubious about getting one of those. A smart phone to give me access to noise cancelling headphones seems a bit excessive and £129 is a lot of money, would I be able to cancel the whole contract and return the phone too if the only reason I was purchasing in the first place was for the ear buds?