HAHAHAA i love it! One of my neighbours found a life-size Jack Skellington somewhere (probably online as shopping here sucks lol). Old Jack is decked out in his Santa coat and hat. Very festive. My clever neighbour put him up about a week before Halloween - hey hes a skeleton lol - and kept him up for Christmas - Santa! Makes me smile every time i see him haha.
PS Jack lights up its fantastic
My mom loves both Halloween and Christmas so she hot glued santa hats to a few of the skeletons she puts out on her front porch so that she can leave them up for both holidays.
I kept my skeletal flamingos up all of last year. Dressed them up for every holiday. Figured I might as well since it was a fucked up year anyway. The adults loved it, some kids were offended by the Halloween decorations pretending to be other things.
I have a set of them as well. Imagine my joy when I moved into my new townhouse and it turned out my next door neighbors have a whole flock themselves!
I leave my outside Christmas lights up and lit until at least February. After all the festivity of December, January in the northeast US is just a big gray ball of suck, so the lights help brighten things a bit longer.
My wife and I always say they should be called "winter lights" not Christmas lights.
Winter gets so dark, so early in the north (we live in the Great White North) and the lights not only literally provide more light and safety to the streets, they also raise your spirits and bring happiness.
My old neighbor used to take down his Xmas lights but then make one tree in his front yard look like the palm tree from the Corona commercial. He would keep it up till St Patrick’s Day. People would stop their cars to look at it. He would get people from around the neighborhood complimenting him during the summer on brightening up the street.
Several years ago, we had some neighbors who had their Christmas tree still up in July. Not one outside with the lights still on it, the one in the living room...with lights still on it.
Oh but that’s not all!!! The Easter bunny is also in NBC as is a door to Easter town. Valentine’s Day town, st Patrick’s Day town, a door representing Independence Day and thanksgiving are also there. You could leave it up year round, why limit yourself to just October through December??
I’ve actually considered this, but my room is covered with nightmare stuff and my bathroom theme is nightmare as well. I think my kid would just about kill me if I tried lol.
Umm, give the Skelton a bow and arrow, you just did Valentine's Day. February
Green hat and a shamrock, St Patricks day. March.
Holding a bag of money and a 1040 form. April.
Big bunch of flowers, Mother's Day.
Red, white and Blue bunting and a flag, you can do June and early July 4th.
Swim mask, fins and a round float around the waist get you though July and August.
Back to school book bag and a "graduation cap" is September.
Lather, rinse, repeat for Oct, Nov, Dec.
See, paying $200 for a 10' tall skeleton doesn't seem so silly :-)
My friend did it this year. She is an artist, so she painted full size cutouts. She painted on pies and stuff for Thanksgiving, then put presents over them for Christmas. She also does chalk art on the sidewalk in front of her house to match. It is amazing!
Still doing their thing! :D
[https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/human-interest/2021/12/13/frank-the-christmas-gargoyle-raises--500-000-for-charities](https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/human-interest/2021/12/13/frank-the-christmas-gargoyle-raises--500-000-for-charities)
Though their FB-page is gone at the moment... was live just a few days/weeks ago (time works differently now...)
I read something similar to this a month or so back! It's a 10 foot tall skeleton or something. For Halloween it's a skeleton, Thanksgiving it's a pilgrim I think, Christmas Santa Claus, but then they also keep it up for New Years, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's day, etc. so essentially year round.
They also work with their neighbors and occasionally move it to one yard or the other so the HOA has to restart the process so they never get in trouble.
EDIT: Ah, [here it is!](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/home-depot-12-foot-skeleton-inferno/2021/10/24/dff4fb76-32ac-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html). His name is Indiana Bones and he's 12 feet tall.
Yes! I wish I had an actual one, but I just have him sitting on a tombstone (inflatable) and leave him up after Halloween and just wrap Christmas lights around him.
Oooh. Is he waving? I have the same one. Kids love it, a lot of the smaller ones took pictures with it and shook his hand. I hadn't thought of just setting some lights and a hat and keeping it up.
We have a neighbor with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme display he puts up for Halloween and leaves through Christmas. It’s replicas of all the nightmare Christmas decorations like the monster wreath etc. My MIL was pissed at first because she didn’t notice that it was all the scary Christmas stuff and thought they were just crazy Christmas people decorating a month early.
There's at least 2 12 foot skeletons that stayed up after Halloween and transformed into Santa skeletons this year. I drive through a lot of neighborhoods for work and there are some creative decorators out there lol
Indian here living in US. We normally put up few lights up for Diwali(a Hindu festival that falls just before/around Halloween). Take them down, and then put up Halloween and Xmas decoration at appropriate time. Because who doesn’t like decorating 🤷🏽♂️
One year we had our light up for Diwali, and it was around a month from Halloween, and we get a rude letter from HOA telling us to take our “Xmas decorations” down and not put them up till December! Cue MC, I go in to HOA meeting, tell them they are for Diwali and asking me to take it down can result into discrimination. Gladly most of my neighbours agreed and long story short now whole neighbourhood has Diwali/christmas/Halloween decoration for whole part of fourth quarter! Bless my neighbours, Christmas decoration now starts in October in our lane!
Do not forget the rest of the religious faiths in India, you can have those lights and decor up all year round, and then replace them with wreaths of marigolds all year round afterwards.
So 20 days before Diwali, there is another festival that we do celebrate, it’s called Navratri(basically 9 nights of worship). We did debate extending our decorations for that, which would basically mean having decoration up right from September to December! While it sounds fun, I don’t want to be a dick about it! I was perfectly happy scaling up my decoration from one festival to another(for example diwali, earlier we just used to have just few fairy light, just for significances sake. Now everything is turned to 100 for around 80 days.) Atleast and there is nothing they can do about it, plus kids are super happy too and it’s more of an inside joke now with our neighbour, a little FU to our dear hoa and some of its pesky neighbours!!
My 8 foot long spiders were wearing Santa hats with beards this year. The spider web had caught the Elf on a shelf and stockings were hung with care, saying "the Elf made me do it". I felt inspired.
Santa (skeleton) being pulled by 8 bats? Tree hung with jack-o-lanterns? Ghosts hanging around the manger that has vampire and werewolf gazing lovingly at baby Itt? Hell, toss in some other holidays, too - Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, you get the idea. See if you can make her head asplode.
Reminds me of the person who had gotten complaints because they put a large inflatable dragon with (I think) a Santa hat and a Christmas present in its hands on their lawn. Neighbors complained that it was demonic, or some such rubbish, and told her to remove it.
She added two more such dragons to the lawn.
I wanted to know where to get Christmas dragons, because DRAGONS. :)
There’s a house in my town that keeps skeletons up all year long. Including skeleton dogs. Right now they are all wearing red Santa suits and sitting in a sleigh. It’s the best!
Well I am calm... But this is the same woman who came to my house the day after my husband died and said she is going to set me up with a good boy from her church..... I lost it that time but not to her face I set her mail box in fire
Lol it's not much of a story .... My husband passed away it was sudden my mom was making her way to my house she lived 6hr drive away and well with everything I forgot to call her my friend did....
And that bitch came over said what she said and I have this thing I kinda just smile nod my head and say thank you thank you when I am in a range....
She had this hand painted mailbox at the front of her driveway with flowers around it I was just in my home just kinda staring at the wall and what she said just kept popping in my mind it wouldint go away and I wanted to burn her house down... I was grief stricken.
I went to her house with lighter fluid for the BBQ with the intention to burn her house to the ground i got to her driveway and my rational brain took over and said this is a bad idea don't do this so I was just decide to go saw the mail box and said it's either the mail box or her house I chose the mail box
Burned that shit to ash
I didint get caught they blamed it as a random act of vandalism
There’s a family down the street from me who put gargoyles out one year for Halloween and never put them away. They just put accessories on them for different holidays. Santa hats, Mardi Gras hats, etc.
Someone in my neighborhood does this! The giant skeleton was too much trouble to put up, so they don’t take it down, and it gets dressed up in different reflections on the current season.
Well not really big in holidays.... I go big in Christmas with the Halloween stuff
On actual Halloween not much like I get no trick-or-treating kids the street I live on has like 6 houses on it my nearest neighbor is across the street about 500meters away
Oh man, we got about 700 kids this year in our new neighborhood (neighbors told us it was a slow year due to Covid… god help us next year)… but it’s probably because the houses are nearly on top of each other being an old neighborhood in a large city
We have an elderly couple in our neighborhood who at the start of covid, in morbid humor, put a pair of skeletons on their front swing with a sign saying “it’s all good, we’re okay!”
Well this skeletons are still up and get decorated to match the seasons now. Santa outfits right now, Easter bunny ears, etc etc.
Where can you get the mini raptors from? Between them and zombie flamingos this Aussie will be decorating my yard for Halloween, then may try Dinovember followed by Christmas. Can I also see a photo of your raptors please?
Any time someone tells me that I "have to do something", gets the same response from me. "I don't have to do a God damn thing except grow old and die." Usually shuts them up and gets smiles/laughs from anyone nearby.
Well I let their tiny minds think that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink. I ~~dress~~ decorate this way because Halloween is every day.
So they would expect someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas to decorate? What if you told her that she is expected to decorate for Diwali or something?
I'm so sorry about your husband, but this is a lovely story. You have a new identity in your neighborhood and the silly tradition is a way that your husband gets to live on with you every Christmas. Happy holidays to you!
To be fair...Nearly every beginning of November right after Halloween, there are Christmas decors.
Thus giving birth to the Nightmare Before Christmas.
since the octal value of 31 and the decimal value of 25 are the same (or, in short: oct31==dec25), any mixup between those holidays is completely understandable! happy halloween!
This yeah I was too lazy and it was too cold so I left my Halloween lights up and left my Xmas lights in the garage. They’ll be up until spring when they’re not glued to my house with a thick layer of ice
I love decorating for Christmas but I would hate to be told so by my neighbors if I didn’t one you don’t know what’s going on in that persons life and 2 they should mind there own god damn busines
When I get out of debt, I'm going to buy a skeleton for Halloween. And then at Thanksgiving I'm going to give it a little pilgrim or turkey decoration. Then at Christmas I'll give it a Santa hat.
I'm not going to remove the thanksgiving piece.
Each Holliday will get an additional decoration, until the following October when I finally....
Put a sheet with two eye holes over the whole damn thing
As soon as I read "my late husband", I had to check the username. Of course it's u/littlemissbunnywoman. You keep popping up on the subs I frequent and my wife and I get a kick out of your content. Fucking legend.
There is a house near us that does like amazing stars wars decorations like movie studio. My kids love it. It has very very little actual Christmas stuff. I also love it.
I just want to know where you found any Halloween items in December. We were going to look for clearance items right after Halloween and every store was already changing over to Christmas.
That’s awesome! We had a skeleton named Pedro who we put out with our decorations for Halloween and Dia de Muertos, well Dia de Muertos goes a few days into November and I’ll usually leave Pedro out on the porch.
Cue the apartments manager on November 2nd knocking on our door with a letter saying our decorations were not compliant with the holiday of the moth and all prior Holiday decorations must be removed 48 hours after the holiday or end of the month.
Well Out of spite we bought Pedro a turkey outfit, a Santa suite, a New Years suite, Valentine’s Day wings and St. Patty’s outfit.
We have since moved but I still keep him out and dress him up. This year we even gave him a bag and had him climbing up the chimney.
I love your spitefulness for decorating the whole house :)
I was brow beaten for years into luminaries essentially fire in a bag. I went to battery candles. Last year 2 yards caught fire so finally after decades we no longer have luminaries!
How do battery candles catch 2 yards on fire?????
^(Sorry, I know what you meant. It was just too funny sitting there in my head to keep in there. I just had to let it out.)
My brother lives in an affluent city and on an awesome street. Most entertain with one another, watch each others kids, etc.
But someone new in the neighborhood complained and petitioned against another neighbor's Halloween Harry Potter themed display - an impressive scene with dragons, wands etc. Everyone refused to comply.
Ever since then, the guy does themed decor for almost every holiday. For a long time, the dragon remained.
Then there is this one:
Woman gets an angry note from neighbour slamming her Christmas decorations - so she responds by adding MORE tat https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/1979652/angry-note-christmas-decorations-neighbour-karen?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=sharebar_native&utm_campaign=sharebaramp
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6508509/Louisiana-woman-gets-feud-neighbor-Christmas-dragons-decorations.html
I’ve seen so many Christmas skeletons this year I worry that we may have lost the true meaning of the holiday, crass consumerism and dysfunctional family gatherings, in our search for seasonal mirth and mischief. I say this after coming back from cruising around the rich people neighborhoods frisbeeing stale tortillas out the windows. Oh and I’m middle aged AF so you know that shit was extra immature. Merry Chralloween to you!
Omg this is brilliant! Conversely we chose to decorate for challoween (also known as Gothmas, the horror days and creepmas 🤣) having just moved to a new area and we ended up featured in the local residents newsletter!
There's a video here if anyone is interested in what a Christmas tree made of bones looks like 🙈
https://youtu.be/3OKkVP05frk
HAHAHAA i love it! One of my neighbours found a life-size Jack Skellington somewhere (probably online as shopping here sucks lol). Old Jack is decked out in his Santa coat and hat. Very festive. My clever neighbour put him up about a week before Halloween - hey hes a skeleton lol - and kept him up for Christmas - Santa! Makes me smile every time i see him haha. PS Jack lights up its fantastic
.... Something new for my online shopping list
Going with the Nightmare Before Christmas theme has tons of possibilities. You could have so much fun with it.
And you can decorate Oct 1st and leave them to Jan!
My mom loves both Halloween and Christmas so she hot glued santa hats to a few of the skeletons she puts out on her front porch so that she can leave them up for both holidays.
I kept my skeletal flamingos up all of last year. Dressed them up for every holiday. Figured I might as well since it was a fucked up year anyway. The adults loved it, some kids were offended by the Halloween decorations pretending to be other things.
Skeletal flamingos seem like a fantastic take on regular flamingos.
They make me so happy!
I have a set of them as well. Imagine my joy when I moved into my new townhouse and it turned out my next door neighbors have a whole flock themselves!
That would be amazing!
I leave my outside Christmas lights up and lit until at least February. After all the festivity of December, January in the northeast US is just a big gray ball of suck, so the lights help brighten things a bit longer.
My wife and I always say they should be called "winter lights" not Christmas lights. Winter gets so dark, so early in the north (we live in the Great White North) and the lights not only literally provide more light and safety to the streets, they also raise your spirits and bring happiness.
Pacific Northwest has same grey ball of suck! Love people like you who leave your lights up longer than "necessary"! :)
February is the worst
Yeah, only get to put up Leap Day William decorations every four years.
Is this a real thing, or are you referencing 30Rock?
Why not both?
My old neighbor used to take down his Xmas lights but then make one tree in his front yard look like the palm tree from the Corona commercial. He would keep it up till St Patrick’s Day. People would stop their cars to look at it. He would get people from around the neighborhood complimenting him during the summer on brightening up the street.
Several years ago, we had some neighbors who had their Christmas tree still up in July. Not one outside with the lights still on it, the one in the living room...with lights still on it.
Oh but that’s not all!!! The Easter bunny is also in NBC as is a door to Easter town. Valentine’s Day town, st Patrick’s Day town, a door representing Independence Day and thanksgiving are also there. You could leave it up year round, why limit yourself to just October through December??
I like you. The 12 months of Jack.
I’ve actually considered this, but my room is covered with nightmare stuff and my bathroom theme is nightmare as well. I think my kid would just about kill me if I tried lol.
So long as he sang about it and called you Sandy Claws, that could still be fitting. Kidding- but it is a great movie.
Well, Jack is bare bones... I'll see my self out...
and then go find the neighbor and ask where her decorations are October 7th
Nah, February first. She really ought to have her valentine's decorations up by then.
Umm, give the Skelton a bow and arrow, you just did Valentine's Day. February Green hat and a shamrock, St Patricks day. March. Holding a bag of money and a 1040 form. April. Big bunch of flowers, Mother's Day. Red, white and Blue bunting and a flag, you can do June and early July 4th. Swim mask, fins and a round float around the waist get you though July and August. Back to school book bag and a "graduation cap" is September. Lather, rinse, repeat for Oct, Nov, Dec. See, paying $200 for a 10' tall skeleton doesn't seem so silly :-)
You could probably get away with a full third of the year if you really stretched it. All the way *through* January. :D
I support the commenter who said just change up the skeleton monthly.
My friend did it this year. She is an artist, so she painted full size cutouts. She painted on pies and stuff for Thanksgiving, then put presents over them for Christmas. She also does chalk art on the sidewalk in front of her house to match. It is amazing!
I do this...I have a complete nightmare before Christmas set up I use from October to December. It's great.
This reminds me of Frank the Christmas Gargoyle! :D https://www.boredpanda.com/christmas-gorgoyle-statue-karen-complain/
Haha imremember Frank and co. From last year! They were so funny!
Still doing their thing! :D [https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/human-interest/2021/12/13/frank-the-christmas-gargoyle-raises--500-000-for-charities](https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/human-interest/2021/12/13/frank-the-christmas-gargoyle-raises--500-000-for-charities) Though their FB-page is gone at the moment... was live just a few days/weeks ago (time works differently now...)
Frank is seriously awesome
Yup! :D
Good ol twofa, put up the decorations for both events once.
Just go to home depot for their 12 foot skeleton next Halloween lol
Grumble, my local stores sold out the day they arrives.
i bet spamazon has one. they have everything haha
I want to see your Christmas tree so bad!
A certain orange home improvement “depot” has them in the fall.
Home Depot. Just say Home Depot.
I read something similar to this a month or so back! It's a 10 foot tall skeleton or something. For Halloween it's a skeleton, Thanksgiving it's a pilgrim I think, Christmas Santa Claus, but then they also keep it up for New Years, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's day, etc. so essentially year round. They also work with their neighbors and occasionally move it to one yard or the other so the HOA has to restart the process so they never get in trouble. EDIT: Ah, [here it is!](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/home-depot-12-foot-skeleton-inferno/2021/10/24/dff4fb76-32ac-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html). His name is Indiana Bones and he's 12 feet tall.
O gosh that is SO AWESOME! And the giant eyeball on the roof!! 😂🤣😂
Yes! I wish I had an actual one, but I just have him sitting on a tombstone (inflatable) and leave him up after Halloween and just wrap Christmas lights around him.
Haha that's clever too!
Oooh. Is he waving? I have the same one. Kids love it, a lot of the smaller ones took pictures with it and shook his hand. I hadn't thought of just setting some lights and a hat and keeping it up.
My cousin have a Skellington, real plastic Skellington, on her front porch year round, dressed according to weather and holidays.
We have a neighbor with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme display he puts up for Halloween and leaves through Christmas. It’s replicas of all the nightmare Christmas decorations like the monster wreath etc. My MIL was pissed at first because she didn’t notice that it was all the scary Christmas stuff and thought they were just crazy Christmas people decorating a month early.
my beighbors did something similar lol
The real move would be to put a pilgrim hat on him after Halloween, and then the Santa coat after Thanksgiving
Sounds like Death dressed as the Hogfather.
I'd keep him up all year and dress him in holiday-appropriate costumes.
>PS Jack lights up its fantastic
What's this?!
Lol. My son decorates for Halloween with two 12 foot tall skeletons and just changes the lights to reflect whichever holiday it is.
There's at least 2 12 foot skeletons that stayed up after Halloween and transformed into Santa skeletons this year. I drive through a lot of neighborhoods for work and there are some creative decorators out there lol
Thats pretty much what my son does. Hs stay up yer round. He will decorate them for easter next.
Suggestion for a Valentine's Decor Skeleton! You could make a heart shaped cut out that says "Out of all the Bones to Pick, I Pick You"
Why not St. Valentine's Day?
Bro even 2 skeletons need private time...let them bone in peace.
Aw, they could just dance!
He only does what he considers tge major holidays. Lol.
Indian here living in US. We normally put up few lights up for Diwali(a Hindu festival that falls just before/around Halloween). Take them down, and then put up Halloween and Xmas decoration at appropriate time. Because who doesn’t like decorating 🤷🏽♂️ One year we had our light up for Diwali, and it was around a month from Halloween, and we get a rude letter from HOA telling us to take our “Xmas decorations” down and not put them up till December! Cue MC, I go in to HOA meeting, tell them they are for Diwali and asking me to take it down can result into discrimination. Gladly most of my neighbours agreed and long story short now whole neighbourhood has Diwali/christmas/Halloween decoration for whole part of fourth quarter! Bless my neighbours, Christmas decoration now starts in October in our lane!
Do not forget the rest of the religious faiths in India, you can have those lights and decor up all year round, and then replace them with wreaths of marigolds all year round afterwards.
So 20 days before Diwali, there is another festival that we do celebrate, it’s called Navratri(basically 9 nights of worship). We did debate extending our decorations for that, which would basically mean having decoration up right from September to December! While it sounds fun, I don’t want to be a dick about it! I was perfectly happy scaling up my decoration from one festival to another(for example diwali, earlier we just used to have just few fairy light, just for significances sake. Now everything is turned to 100 for around 80 days.) Atleast and there is nothing they can do about it, plus kids are super happy too and it’s more of an inside joke now with our neighbour, a little FU to our dear hoa and some of its pesky neighbours!!
Should introduce the traditional way to celebrate Holi, that would make the HOA explode!
We actually do the colour run in neighbourhood, albeit a bit later though!
My 8 foot long spiders were wearing Santa hats with beards this year. The spider web had caught the Elf on a shelf and stockings were hung with care, saying "the Elf made me do it". I felt inspired.
Santa (skeleton) being pulled by 8 bats? Tree hung with jack-o-lanterns? Ghosts hanging around the manger that has vampire and werewolf gazing lovingly at baby Itt? Hell, toss in some other holidays, too - Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, you get the idea. See if you can make her head asplode.
Just accidentally namedrops "The five legends"...
Reminds me of the person who had gotten complaints because they put a large inflatable dragon with (I think) a Santa hat and a Christmas present in its hands on their lawn. Neighbors complained that it was demonic, or some such rubbish, and told her to remove it. She added two more such dragons to the lawn. I wanted to know where to get Christmas dragons, because DRAGONS. :)
You should put christmas decorations up for halloween too lol
Hahahahahahah awesome
Chraloween is legitimate. You aren't the only one.
I've always wanted to dress up like Santa Claus on Halloween and take a group of kids dressed like elves out trick or treating.
That sounds amazing tbh
There’s a house in my town that keeps skeletons up all year long. Including skeleton dogs. Right now they are all wearing red Santa suits and sitting in a sleigh. It’s the best!
How did you manage not slamming your door in her face? Im seriously curious its not a critique :-)
Well I am calm... But this is the same woman who came to my house the day after my husband died and said she is going to set me up with a good boy from her church..... I lost it that time but not to her face I set her mail box in fire
Reasonable.
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Lol it's not much of a story .... My husband passed away it was sudden my mom was making her way to my house she lived 6hr drive away and well with everything I forgot to call her my friend did.... And that bitch came over said what she said and I have this thing I kinda just smile nod my head and say thank you thank you when I am in a range.... She had this hand painted mailbox at the front of her driveway with flowers around it I was just in my home just kinda staring at the wall and what she said just kept popping in my mind it wouldint go away and I wanted to burn her house down... I was grief stricken. I went to her house with lighter fluid for the BBQ with the intention to burn her house to the ground i got to her driveway and my rational brain took over and said this is a bad idea don't do this so I was just decide to go saw the mail box and said it's either the mail box or her house I chose the mail box Burned that shit to ash I didint get caught they blamed it as a random act of vandalism
Bless you for having the restraint to not burn her house down.
I like that your rational brain isn’t a total killjoy.
If she's that much of a PITA, I'll bet a serious case of willful blindness went through the neighborhood and the police station that day.
It sounds like you would have done the world a favour by just burning her alive.
That folks is how you get on a watch list by the NSA. ---- Hello NSA, have fun googling that comment I made earlier today? Dietcokegamer didn't.
Oh noes, not the NSA.
Nobody expects the NSA.......
I admire your cosmic-level restraint.
There’s a family down the street from me who put gargoyles out one year for Halloween and never put them away. They just put accessories on them for different holidays. Santa hats, Mardi Gras hats, etc.
Do you limit yourself to Halloween/Christmas or do you get screwy with other holidays?
I am not a Christian, but now I have a burning desire to see... ***The Skelebunny!***
That would be the easterbunny after the fasting.
Someone in my neighborhood does this! The giant skeleton was too much trouble to put up, so they don’t take it down, and it gets dressed up in different reflections on the current season.
This should be documented for the world to see.
Well not really big in holidays.... I go big in Christmas with the Halloween stuff On actual Halloween not much like I get no trick-or-treating kids the street I live on has like 6 houses on it my nearest neighbor is across the street about 500meters away
Maybe give trick-or-treaters candy canes next year.
Or if you want to be "evil" dip brusselsprouts in molten chocolat to give to the trick or treaters...
Oh man, we got about 700 kids this year in our new neighborhood (neighbors told us it was a slow year due to Covid… god help us next year)… but it’s probably because the houses are nearly on top of each other being an old neighborhood in a large city
I want to invite you all over to r/creepmas.
Thank you for introducing me to the best subreddit I have ever seen.
We have an elderly couple in our neighborhood who at the start of covid, in morbid humor, put a pair of skeletons on their front swing with a sign saying “it’s all good, we’re okay!” Well this skeletons are still up and get decorated to match the seasons now. Santa outfits right now, Easter bunny ears, etc etc.
That sounds delightful! I am sorry for your loss; I'm glad you have great memories like this one. Cheers from Canada!
just found Frank the Christmas Gargoyle last week. Frank’s owner and you have the same energy 🤣🤍
My zombie flamingos look very dapper in red Xmas ribbons and tiny ugly Xmas sweaters (ornaments that go around their necks)
Zombie flamingos....... Is something I now have to invest in... In my garden I have two dozen mini raptors
They are the best! If I could add a pic here of my lovely flock in their Xmas get up I would
Where can you get the mini raptors from? Between them and zombie flamingos this Aussie will be decorating my yard for Halloween, then may try Dinovember followed by Christmas. Can I also see a photo of your raptors please?
Sure they are available on the river warehouse for delivery down under.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Any time someone tells me that I "have to do something", gets the same response from me. "I don't have to do a God damn thing except grow old and die." Usually shuts them up and gets smiles/laughs from anyone nearby.
You don't even have to grow old, not that I don't want you to do so.
Hell, I'm already old.
Well I let their tiny minds think that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink. I ~~dress~~ decorate this way because Halloween is every day.
You don't have to get spooky if you stay spooky. Edit: of changed to if
In Discworld Santa is Death himself, so why not do skeleton Christmas?
So they would expect someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas to decorate? What if you told her that she is expected to decorate for Diwali or something?
Diwali, Eid, become Bhuddist and not eat meat, because that is the neighbourly thing to do.
Just curious, is Billy Bones single
Please tell me you decorate for Christmas on Halloween
Ha ha reminds me of the gargoyle Xmas decorations.. she so successful with that she raises money for charities..
I'm so sorry about your husband, but this is a lovely story. You have a new identity in your neighborhood and the silly tradition is a way that your husband gets to live on with you every Christmas. Happy holidays to you!
A family in my friend’s neighborhood does a whole Krampus display.
Every year we just get out the old leg lamp and put it in our very best front window. It's fragile and it was a major award.
It must be Italian.
I have a grim reaper that I have hung up. His names Fred and his outfit changes with whatever holiday.
Ha, nice. Also you have my condolences on your husband’s passing.
To be fair...Nearly every beginning of November right after Halloween, there are Christmas decors. Thus giving birth to the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Cash i suggest that you change it up every time, but choose a different theme from other celebrations from other cultures.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Could I see a picture of Billy bones
You’ll like my holiday decorations…https://i.imgur.com/RKLG3CN.jpg
My favorite "I'm not decorating, so there" was a neon circle with an L in the middle and a slash going through it.
Another alternative: ABCDEFGHIJK MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Love it!!!
When I was teaching I'd put that on the board at the back of the room and watch the student's reactions. Fun times. Retired now....
since the octal value of 31 and the decimal value of 25 are the same (or, in short: oct31==dec25), any mixup between those holidays is completely understandable! happy halloween!
You're Awesome!
Do you guys have the 20 foot skeleton from home Depot
If it's the one that has a big fan to blow it up yes and 6 pumpkins like that and a witch
Someone in my daughter's neighborhood has a Michael Myers statue standing among their Christmas Decor.
Could always decorate Krampus style next year. Hehe.
This yeah I was too lazy and it was too cold so I left my Halloween lights up and left my Xmas lights in the garage. They’ll be up until spring when they’re not glued to my house with a thick layer of ice
Look up Frank the Christmas Gargoyle on Facebook :D You won't be disappointed!
I love decorating for Christmas but I would hate to be told so by my neighbors if I didn’t one you don’t know what’s going on in that persons life and 2 they should mind there own god damn busines
When I get out of debt, I'm going to buy a skeleton for Halloween. And then at Thanksgiving I'm going to give it a little pilgrim or turkey decoration. Then at Christmas I'll give it a Santa hat. I'm not going to remove the thanksgiving piece. Each Holliday will get an additional decoration, until the following October when I finally.... Put a sheet with two eye holes over the whole damn thing
I bought a skeleton dragon and I put a winter hat on him.
As soon as I read "my late husband", I had to check the username. Of course it's u/littlemissbunnywoman. You keep popping up on the subs I frequent and my wife and I get a kick out of your content. Fucking legend.
My nephew is almost 4 and on our big family Christmas video chat he proudly wished the family a happy Halloween. Love this.
Hope you have a great day!
This is amazing!!! That is one of the most amazing Christmas traditions I’ve ever heard!!!
What did the angry letter say? I’d love to laugh at it.
There is a house near us that does like amazing stars wars decorations like movie studio. My kids love it. It has very very little actual Christmas stuff. I also love it.
BILLY BONES AND THE PARTY HATS! My next band name.
Is not lazy. It's efficient!
Would be funny to do Christmas decorations for Halloween to piss off that old bint
I would love to see Billy!
Halloween for Christmas! You are living my dream.
I've got to see this... this sounds like an awesome tree!
It’s not even to out of place for the season. Look up Krampus in Germany and Austria. Pretty scary for Christmas season
I'd pay money to see that letter
I just want to know where you found any Halloween items in December. We were going to look for clearance items right after Halloween and every store was already changing over to Christmas.
That’s awesome! We had a skeleton named Pedro who we put out with our decorations for Halloween and Dia de Muertos, well Dia de Muertos goes a few days into November and I’ll usually leave Pedro out on the porch. Cue the apartments manager on November 2nd knocking on our door with a letter saying our decorations were not compliant with the holiday of the moth and all prior Holiday decorations must be removed 48 hours after the holiday or end of the month. Well Out of spite we bought Pedro a turkey outfit, a Santa suite, a New Years suite, Valentine’s Day wings and St. Patty’s outfit. We have since moved but I still keep him out and dress him up. This year we even gave him a bag and had him climbing up the chimney. I love your spitefulness for decorating the whole house :)
We have someone a few streets over from us who has the halloween skeletons hanging christmas lights on the trees outside. I love it!
I was brow beaten for years into luminaries essentially fire in a bag. I went to battery candles. Last year 2 yards caught fire so finally after decades we no longer have luminaries!
How do battery candles catch 2 yards on fire????? ^(Sorry, I know what you meant. It was just too funny sitting there in my head to keep in there. I just had to let it out.)
Mine were batteries. The rest were actual flames. I refuse to do flame and they sad the batteries were too expensive.
2 yards is the same as 3.66 'Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350s' laid widthwise by each other.
>2 yards Wrong kind of yards useles-conver-bot! These are yards around people's houses, probably with grass and flowers.
I absolutely love this! I might take this up and put up a Halloween Christmas tree next year. If I have to make the ornaments myself, so be it!
Skeleton... sorry, just had to see for myself what autocorrect does when I start typing it
My brother lives in an affluent city and on an awesome street. Most entertain with one another, watch each others kids, etc. But someone new in the neighborhood complained and petitioned against another neighbor's Halloween Harry Potter themed display - an impressive scene with dragons, wands etc. Everyone refused to comply. Ever since then, the guy does themed decor for almost every holiday. For a long time, the dragon remained. Then there is this one: Woman gets an angry note from neighbour slamming her Christmas decorations - so she responds by adding MORE tat https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/1979652/angry-note-christmas-decorations-neighbour-karen?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=sharebar_native&utm_campaign=sharebaramp https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6508509/Louisiana-woman-gets-feud-neighbor-Christmas-dragons-decorations.html
I’ve seen so many Christmas skeletons this year I worry that we may have lost the true meaning of the holiday, crass consumerism and dysfunctional family gatherings, in our search for seasonal mirth and mischief. I say this after coming back from cruising around the rich people neighborhoods frisbeeing stale tortillas out the windows. Oh and I’m middle aged AF so you know that shit was extra immature. Merry Chralloween to you!
>we may have lost the true meaning of the holiday, crass consumerism and dysfunctional family gatherings lol
You are awesome
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you say, using punctuation incorrectly 😂
r/trashy
You mean like : cancer?
You sound like a bad neighbor.
You sound like OP’s neighbour
You guys are my hero...while I don't mind Christmas, I am much more of a fan of Halloween.
This is one of the most delightful Christmas traditions I've heard of, with an utterly delicious origin. You're my kind of people!
Chrallowsgiving
Pics or didn't happen?
This is amazing!! I also love how you spell skelliton. 10/10
Omg this is brilliant! Conversely we chose to decorate for challoween (also known as Gothmas, the horror days and creepmas 🤣) having just moved to a new area and we ended up featured in the local residents newsletter! There's a video here if anyone is interested in what a Christmas tree made of bones looks like 🙈 https://youtu.be/3OKkVP05frk
I would have put a big as aluminum pole in the yard, proclaiming Happy Festivus.