The document lists 100 potential strategies for dealing with noise from a nearby construction site, ranging from practical solutions like using earplugs or moving bedrooms, to more aggressive or unrealistic options like sabotaging the construction work or starting drag races. It includes both constructive suggestions as well as impractical or problematic ones. The vast number of ideas suggested indicates there are many possible approaches to addressing this type of nuisance noise issue.

1. 1. Get a loud air conditioner
2. Get a lover if you are single
3. Start taking early morning lessons
4. Ignore
5. Conduct noise related experiments in the mornings
6. Conduct lack of sleep related experiments
7. Use hypnoses
8. Write an article in a newspaper about construction site
9. Make a contest among construction companies for the “Quietist construction site”
10. Make a contest among construction workers for the “Quietest worker on site”
11. Get sick with ear inflammation
12. Pay the workers for being quieter
13. Befriend the workers and ask them nicely
14. Befriend the site supervisor and ask him/her nicely
15. Lobby for new construction regulation to keep the noise down on the construction sites
16. Pretend you are from “health and safety” institution and discipline the workers
17. Print and publicly display the legal acts that regulate construction work hours and
acceptable noise levels
18. Pay the supervisor to make his/her site quieter
19. Get employed by the construction comp and influence the works from ‘inside’
20. Buy the site development
21. Sleep at friends house
22. Sleep at the hotel
23. Organise Formula 1 race in the neighbourhood
24. Talk to the site owner/developer to influence construction works
25. Do not wash your ears and let the ‘natural ear plugs’ to build up
26. Get a parrot or other noisy bird as a pet
27. Use helmet when sleeping
28. Invent better silencer for tractors and machinery
29. Invent silent tools
30. Go on TV show and raise the issue
31. Get a mayor to spend a few weekends in your house to see what noise is created
32. Sell and move if the place is owned by you
33. Pray for bad weather on your street
34. File the complaint with the development company
35. Watch TV
36. Help other in your family to remodel or do early morning choirs
37. Do the holiday house swap
38. Listen to construction sounds during the day so you would get used to them
39. Announce the prise for the construction crew if they will finish faster
40. Invite inspection guys to the site
41. File the complaint with the council
42. Shift the focus to another problem. If you don’t have one – think of one
43. Get a sound reducing cover for the bed
44. Listen to the louder music

2. 45. Get angry barking dog
46. Grow a hedge
47. Start home remodelling
48. Get a baby
49. Initiate construction works at some workers neighbourhood
50. Record the noise of the construction site and make a super hit track
51. Work overtime
52. Stay at work for the night
53. Invite workers for sleep overs
54. Make sleeping competition at your home
55. Get drums and start lessons in the mornings
56. Change sleep /work pattern
57. Use sleeping pills
58. Drink (too much) and fall to deep sleep
59. Party
60. Join the construction team
61. Put your bed into a tent with noise reduction
62. Talk to workers
63. Cut the power of the whole district
64. Get so tired that you fall asleep despite the noise
65. Start new sports
66. Block the road
67. Make more noise than construction workers
68. Call site supervisor to change working times
69. Sign a petition
70. Post warning signs on windows
71. Go on strike with neighbours
72. Sue the construction company
73. Go to the site and start crying – ask for pity
74. Use 6 degrees of separation to call to the president and complain
75. Install glass balcony to reduce noise
76. Call site supervisor every day to annoy
77. Talk to the union
78. Sleep in the other room if you have more than one
79. Move if you are renting
80. Move to parents house
81. Rent out your apartment and rent another for yourself
82. Sleep in a sleeping bag
83. Don’t sleep and get a sick leave
84. Bubble wrap your windows
85. Change your windows
86. Use head phones when sleeping
87. Use sleeping hat/cap with ear cover
88. Use earplugs
89. Meditate

3. 90. Go on vacation
91. Move your bed to some quieter place
92. Every day bring milk an cookies to construction site
93. Annoy construction workers
94. Use sound isolation layer
95. Use shutter
96. Build a sound proof construction site fence
97. Put a sound proof fence around your house
98. Have a drag race in your street
99. Start working additional shifts
100. Start social advertisement campaign with posters and flyers