![]() We watched all the classic scary movies.” ” We went to haunted houses to see what they were doing. “What our holiday decoration team does is go out into the market, find inspiration, and see what we can do differently.” he tells CNN. To hear Lance Allen, Home Depot’s senior merchant of holiday décor describe it, bringing Skelly to life was a labor of love. Several retailers like Costco and Lowes now offer their own Halloween behemoths, but the Skelly phenomenon started in the Home Depot offices in 2020. “I wasn’t sure I could get it in my small SUV, but I was going to die trying!”Ī Skelly looms over a Pennsylvania house. Well, as swiftly as one can when the skeleton in question comes in a box the size of a Manhattan apartment. ![]() She had an inside contact at her local Home Depot, so when she got a call in September that the skeletons – the skeletons – were back in stock, she raced to the store and swiftly snapped one up. Jill Troutman of Memphis, Tennessee, searched for two years before securing her Skelly. 6M4VUBHTqq- Jenni Tabler, PhD September 4, 2022 Happy enormous skeleton season to all who celebrate. Home Depot's singular positive mark on American society is thanks to the unknown hero on some product committee who was like "the people don't know what they want, we will show them" and then gifted us the 12 ft tall skeleton. And the enormous skeleton is one of those fascinating small joys.” “I think for me as a sociologist, I find it very heartening that we can all rally over some of the small joys in life. Tabler doesn’t have a Skelly herself, but she gets the hype. She summed up the zeitgeist in a now-viral tweet: “Happy enormous skeleton season to all who celebrate.” “I mean, it’s the moment,” says Jenni Tabler, a sociology professor at the University of Wyoming. Or perhaps big skeletons are just funny to think about. Perhaps Skelly is a bridge between the extremes of our human nature sorrow and joy, famine and excess, the sacred and the profane encased together in high-density polyethylene. Why so many people identify with this creature – enough to snatch up entire inventories in hours and spawn a whole skeleton black market in the process – is a question best left to a higher power. Affectionately known as Skelly, the looming figure is now a mascot of sorts for those who delight in the gothic excesses of Halloween decor. ![]() There are two kinds of people: those who understand the allure of a 12-foot skeleton decoration, and those who have yet to understand the allure of a 12-foot skeleton decoration.įall beckons the arrival of the Home Depot skeleton, a massive Halloween yard decoration that first hit the market in 2020 and has captivated imaginations ever since. ![]()
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