Music around the house all the time or silence?

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I have music on most of the time and find it both relaxing and stimulating - depending on the style.

Can’t stand silence- it makes me nervous- but don’t like music around the house either. I LOVE radio4 and 4 extra and listen to them in bed to get to sleep.

Silence, Radio 4 or Times Radio depending on what I am doing and what's on. I good Radio 4 play is essential for ironing.

Mainly silence for me too although I do have moments when I have a jig around the kitchen to some old jazz/funk/soul classics. Night time routine I get Alexa to play something quiet so I hopefully drift off to sleep knowing she will turn it off after a certain time.

I only put the radio on in the car,dh on the other has it on all the time but when i`m not in.
It really does drive me mad.

So pleased that somebody else like me. DH would have a playing morning until the night. Silence is golden sometimes.

I have either music or TV on most of the day. I live alone and I suppose it feels like company to me.

Usually like to listen to something when working in the kitchen or doing housework. (Shame that Music While You Work has finished). Either Gold or R4. A bit of silence is good too. Really cannot be doing with the radio on when I am reading, too distracting.

I like noise in the house too. It can be radio 4 or music. I don't like a quiet house unless I am reading.

Always have the radio tuned to LBC when I go to bed.

They always have an interesting discussion on current affairs and topics of the day.

In the morning, it’s BBC Essex, listening in bed with a cup of tea.

I very rarely play music. Prefer silence. The t,v, gets muted quite frequently.

I like quiet and DH likes music or TV. I listen to music occasionally. We are all different, but silence to me is golden!

My husband seems to want some noise going on either TV or radio which if I am trying to read or do paperwork really distracts me. I do have Classic FM on in the kitchen when cooking and often listen to my MP3 player at night as I am an insomniac but other times like silence. Hate that canned music in restaurants, etc.

Love silence

I agree with you 100%. I like silence and hate constant background music. My DH has to have music on all the times and he hums too! Drives me potty!! He has PTSD as well as other health issues and it helps him, I just go out into the garden or bite my tongue!

Radio 4 for me full time until late afternoon when its reading time

Can't stand silence, and I'm on my own so the radio is on most of the day for company. I love our local radio station as it's chatty, informative, keeps me up to date with local news and weather, and the music is good. During the night I am usually tuned into radio 5 or the World Service.

I only listen to music (reluctantly) when other half has it on. As I get older I find it just annoys me. We've come to a compromise now whereby he plays music only when I’m out or in the garden. Pre Covid, I tended to avoid shops that played loud music; just made me forget what I went in for.

Radio2 for 2 hours 11-1 then silence.

I had the radio on most of the time before DH retired but now he’s home it hardly ever goes on. He’s deaf (or so he says!) and when it’s on I find myself repeating things to him constantly so I’ve given in and keep it off most of the time. When he’s out or in the garden it goes on. I don’t like silence unless I’m reading which is not often these days.

Silence. Most of the younger people we know have music on all the time - drives me nuts. Really find this habit of having music on during meals very annoying bordering on unpleasant.

OH would have TV on all the time - I only have TV on when I am watching something specific.

I'm with you hamster I put music on when I specifically want to listen to it but I love the sound of silence.
I have a friend who has to have the radio, or worse TV, on all the time. Even if people go for a visit she leaves them on in the background and you have to chat over them.

I prefer background noise of some kind, music or tv. If I don't have that, my mind starts working overtime and not in good places sometimes, so I try to keep my mind off of those kinds of things by have something on. However, since my husband retired, he prefers silence and it drives me nuts, but I don't say anything. But I do feel like he took over our house with silence and I can't wait til he leaves for a few hours every now and then so I can choose noise or silence, whatever I feel like!

I don't understand why you think it would be unfair of you to ask for silence but it's apparently fair for him to have music on all the time. Can he not compromise a bit for a few hours a day? Doesn't seem a lot to ask.

We both like silence here. My OH is in the music business so when he's working in the studio upstairs there is a background of sound constantly (not intrusively loud but I am aware of it). When he's finished for the day the last thing he wants is to hear more music. I recently realised that it's only when he's out or away that I actually play the music i like (old rock, mostly)

I am deaf in one ear, my DH's hearing is failing (but he denies it and says I mumble!) so any music means an end to any communication! He still doesn't get it and continues to try to chat while he has the radio on
It is worse in the car as my deaf ear is to his side and my good ear picks up all the road and traffic noise through the window. Again, music in in the car means no talking, or rather no listening!
HOWEVER I have really loud, bouncy music on when I'm cleaning the house. Keeps me moving and is my indoor exercise
I do find other people's choice of music can be very irritating if I'm not in a tolerant mood. Two sons, both with very different music tastes, to each other and to me, have taught me how to shut it out!