People like that make the world a better place.

We have a neighbor who does the same! Same one, or kindred spirits?

Same here!! I love it! St. Patrick's this week!! 🍀

...like "Mater" in Cars. The paint on this thing must be an inch thick from all the different holidays they've decorated it for.

...are frowned upon in totalitarian societies.

The skeleton might be annoying, but maybe view it as a small measure of freedom that someone is choosing to exercise.

My Mom had to take down her curtains for offending the authorities' sense of "decorum". She was told she was a vain and show-offy person - simply for not going along with the white lace curtains of the herd. A couple of years later she managed to escape from behind the Iron Curtain just as Russian tanks were rolling into Czechkoslovakia next door. True story.

No, individualism is not tolerated in a totalitarian society.

yes indeed

it were wearing a blue suit, a red tie, and had an old yellowed mop on its head.

The actual madness is bombing the hell out of other countries.

do you live a few doors down from Bayard, by chance?

I don't have a 12 foot plastic skeleton.


I have zero storage for anything like that.

And then you could store 12 one-foot plastic skeleton parts?

I asked MontanaMama about hers one year and that's how she does it.


I'm still not sure if I have the room even for that.


You should see the garage, I would say that 15% of the garage hoard is mine.

a garage sale!

You have the skeleton up until spring and then you use those 12 disassembled pieces as temporary fence posts in your yard and fence off your garden!

How about it?

The house could be known as the "The Skelton House"!

that grows boney beets and beans every summer!

up for Halloween. That would be fun!

Just dress it up for Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Fourth of July and so on. In months that there isn't anything going on, just put a bathing suit and a sun hat on it.

Ahh, the lake effect.

She just keeps changing the costume--kind of like what people used to do with the lawn ducks.

They put up the 12 foot plastic skeleton about 4 or 5 years ago. They live across the street from a stip mall. There's a family with a special needs child that was non verbal. I believe he was about 5 years old at the time. The mother reported to the local news station that her child had spoken for the first time in his life when he saw that skeleton. Turn around mom, turn around!

She parked in the strip mall lot across the street and cried as her son laughed and talked about how much he loved that skeleton.

The neighbor for the last 5 years has decorated that skeleton for every holiday and the whole neighborhood love it.

Sometimes there are reasons for things that we may not always understand.

one constant is the sign it’s holding which reads “I’m next”!

My sister had a colleague who decorated her office door with a skeleton for Halloween, and another worker complained that it was "satanic". The response? Pilgrim hat for Thanksgiving, Santa hat for Xmas, hearts for Valentine's Day, etc etc.

Might not have considered that when they bought it. LOL
I wonder every holiday where people keep all the stuff they set out front these days. Someone near here has a normal size skeleton that sits on the porch swing all year. It also wears different threads.

My neighbor puts this up every year. It has glowing eyes. From the moment he appears before Halloween, my cat is hanging next to him every day. In this pic, look at the little orange ball at the skeleton's feet.



Now it is true there is a good NYC skyline view, but I think he just loves his friend. Or maybe it's a good place to spot mice?

When he is deconstructed and put inside after Halloween, Oliver is distraught. He lies down behind my car tire in the leaves. I have to be very careful not to aid his suicidal ideation.

Cats are so unfathomable..

"Suicidal ideation"

Saint Patrick's Day comes before Easter.

I am curious what she's going to do for July 4th.

It’s a wild story

so leaving it in the yard all year long and dressing it up by holiday/season is a sort of efficiency.

He's been every mascot for every sports team that the family likes - and they must be really, really BIG sports fans.

I wish she was my neighbor.

They might grab it to help meet their quota and ship it off abroad.

Imagine taking that case to court........

Thanks for sharing!

Pain in the ass to put up and take down. We have a few year rounders in these parts too.

It sounds almost like a modern take on th eDanse Macabre.

I haven't seen an easter display but did see the halloween and xmas display.

Either that, they are justifying the cost...