Discover the enchanting world of the Witchy hat by Killstar

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I wouldn't buy a 12 foot skeleton for me, as there's already a 12 foot skeleton house on the block, and there is a saying in the 12 foot skeleton community, don't start nothin, won't be nothin.
posted by Geckwoistmeinauto at 3:28 PM on October 1 [4 favorites]

At the risk of falling squarely in the buzzkill column, I would be mindful of the optics of creating explicitly religious imagery around a giant symbol of death, particularly involving any religions not observed by the skeleton s caretakers. No-sew costumes Cupid in February wings, bow, easy segue from Baby New Year , Roman senator for Ides of March toga draping , Johnny Appleseed for Arbor Day nationally, it s the last Friday in April; local observance calendar or Johnny Appleseed Day Sept.

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Giant home depot skeleton- Y/N?
September 30, 2023 9:01 PM Subscribe

Ever since I saw one, I've thought about getting a giant skeleton, but always had to pause. It's taller than my house! How to hang it up?

Then I was going through Craigslist free stuff, saw a roll-around basketball hoop, I thought "Perfect! Take off the rim and the backboard, it's the perfect stand for Mr. Bones (that's his name.)

Of course my logic brain had to speak up, and said "PIA to put up, PIA to take down and store every year."

But then I thought "Shut up brain."

Maybe I can leave it up year round. It would look silly plain, but with some costuming.

A Santa suit at Christmas. A diaper and a sash for New Years. Uncle Sam hat for the Fourth. Outstretched arms and a crown of thorns for Easter is probably a bit tasteless.

The question is, what other holiday/costume should I consider?

There is one of these up year round in my neighborhood. It wears Pride garb in summer and spends most of the winter dressed as Paul Bunyan with a plaid shirt, jeans, and a loooong scarf.
posted by Nosey Mrs. Rat at 9:07 PM on September 30 [16 favorites]

Turkey for Thanksgiving if you are in US. Leprechaun for St Patricks day.

Costumes would have to stand up to local weather conditions.
posted by vrakatar at 9:09 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]

Bunny ears and a tail for Easter.

Flowers and a wide-brimmed hat for spring/summer

Flannel skirt/kilt and a scarf for fall/winter

There's a year-round one in my neighborhood, too. Lots of fun, doesn't need a lot of costume changes.
posted by EvaDestruction at 9:11 PM on September 30 [3 favorites]

I saw people put one up on a YouTube video, I think it has a stand frame thingy.
posted by emjaybee at 9:44 PM on September 30

Statue of Liberty 🗽 For July

giant “deely boppers” for the various seasons?
a giant T-shirt for the seasons when you can’t think of anything else
posted by calgirl at 9:47 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]

The year round human sized one in my neighborhood dressed up for St. Patrick's Day last year.

It also puts on a lot of different athletic gear. With help, presumably.
posted by deludingmyself at 9:53 PM on September 30 [2 favorites]

Sorry if this is a buzzkill kind of thing to say, but if I'm answering the original question as presented, count me as a /N.

As someone who has to drive past several houses with these set up year round (including one that has FOUR of them displayed at all times of year). I find them more than a bit cliche by this point.

Ymmv but in my opinion, less is more with the goofy front yard decor.
posted by wats at 10:23 PM on September 30 [18 favorites]

There's one in our neighborhood and we make a point of walking past to check what it's up to, so I'm for yes, let your freak skeleton fly.

(Yeah, it's free-standing, at least the ones I've seen. Add guy ropes if it'll stay out and eventually get high wind. You will need a stepladder, if you don't already have one, to dress / decorate / weird it up.)
posted by away for regrooving at 11:45 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]

I would love to see a skeleton dressed for different holidays all year.

There is a T-rex skeleton lurking in the bushes all year near where I do karaoke.

Also a neighbor of mine has up an Anubis statue all year that she dresses seasonally. Right now he's a mummy.
posted by jenfullmoon at 1:00 AM on October 1 [3 favorites]

Are we really discussing a capsule wardrobe for a four-meter skeleton?

Cool. Go for it!
posted by wenestvedt at 3:53 AM on October 1 [13 favorites]

Whether or not it can stay up year-round will depend on the weather where you are - we wanted to leave ours up but the first strong snowstorm took it down (the wind, not the snow itself.)

It does come with its own stand, which has a pretty big footprint - definitely take a close look at one if you can before you try configuring something with a backboard, as I’m not sure how you’d get it close enough to the skeleton to be useful. (And I don’t think you can skip the stand, because it connects to the frame that allows the whole thing to stay together.
posted by okayokayigive at 5:16 AM on October 1

I would suggest it doesn't always need to stand? A casual sitting or laying down posture with accompanying outfit would be cute for a relaxing summer.

More giant skeletons. MOAR!

I think it depends on your neighborhood’s zeitgeist. You really need to have neighbors who share your eclectic tastes.

I’d be cool with my neighbor having one of these year-round as long as the thing was well-kept and not allowed to let crap accumulate around it or just look like shit after a couple of seasons.

Also, make double sure your HOA (if you have one) isn’t going to shit on your dreams, as they are wont to do at times.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:19 AM on October 1 [2 favorites]

A casual sitting or laying down posture with accompanying outfit would be cute for a relaxing summer.

Reclining skeleton buddha!
posted by Thorzdad at 6:20 AM on October 1 [1 favorite]

You could also recognize pagan gods and months, so Janus for January or Mars for March.
posted by warriorqueen at 6:43 AM on October 1

You could easily get a yard or so of fun seasonal fabric fabric and make seasonal bandanas. Make friends with a knitter or crocheter who would make some hats and scarves.

In November, a foam Statue of Liberty crown, painted the appropriate green, and a big I'd Vote If I was Still Alive sticker.

And light strings in seasonal colors are very effective. I suspect most of your neighbors would be at least amused.
posted by theora55 at 7:02 AM on October 1 [2 favorites]

One of the houses on the route I take for walks/jogs has a giant T-rex skeleton + it's baby. It's default is holding a pride flag, and rotates with all the holidays. I think it's fun! It's part of well-kept front yard, and is the only giant skeleton nearby - I could see it being a bit much if half the neighborhood had one, but I'm all for people having fun with their yard decor. Unless you live in a strict/stuffy neighborhood or have a HOA, the kids in your neighborhood will appreciate it, likely many of the adults too.
posted by coffeecat at 8:00 AM on October 1 [1 favorite]

I literally can’t dislike a giant skeleton in someone’s yard. They’re the best!
posted by Doleful Creature at 8:50 AM on October 1 [6 favorites]

There’s a giant skeleton at one house in our neighborhood, and a giant werewolf in another. My mom’s house has a seasonal enormous spider that comes out in the fall and then hibernates again sometime in January.
posted by samthemander at 9:14 AM on October 1 [1 favorite]

If there was an award for the most MeFi answer, I’d nominate amtho for this parsimonious suggestion that in summer, you have a giant skeleton full of beans.
posted by deludingmyself at 10:07 AM on October 1 [5 favorites]

bikini or speedos and some sunglasses for summer.
Instead of celebrating Easter you could get/make him a giant staff and robe and have him part the red sea for Passover.
I think for Halloween you should get a giant sheet and have him go as a ghost.
Mortarboard and diploma for June
Put a big red heart in his chest for Valentine's Day
posted by brookeb at 11:00 AM on October 1 [1 favorite]

I guess I'm on team buzzkill. I hate that halloween decorations are getting bigger and more ubiquitous and they are up for months on end. I hated walking past plastic tombstones and plastic skeletons during the lockdown when there were daily death counts on the news each morning. I hate walking past them this year when even less obvious things remind me that my dad isn't here anymore. And I say this as a former archaeologist who had no problem excavating grave sites & even a crypt once, cleaning actual human skeletons with toothbrushes, sorting out finger bones into little plastic bags and poking soil out of the eye sockets with my fingers, etc. I have zero problem with normalizing thinking and talking about death and human remains, but I guess I want to choose when I do that? Not to have to think about it every morning when I walk outside my front door and see my neighbor's house across the street?

Dressing up literally anything else would be just as fun -- there's a lady near where I live who has a goose statue in her garden that has different custom made themed outfits for every week of the year and she's a local treasure! -- but it's these skeletons. And they are now just So. Big. there is no way to avoid them.

I know I'm probably in the minority. whatever. maybe I'll start collecting garden gnomes.
posted by EllaEm at 11:28 AM on October 1 [8 favorites]

Keep in mind that this will add to your maintenance. You do not really want to buy a sewing machine in June, and still have it on your dining room table swathed in masses of green cloth in August because you never did manage to finish sewing that Fourth of July Statue of Liberty costume. Poor Mr. Bones will make you feel bad every time you see him standing there in his Easter bunny ears as the summer grows hotter.

It won't be easy to find off-the-rack clothing to fit a twelve foot skeleton. It won't be any easier to find patterns to make them yourself. Realistically do you want, and do you have the time for a new hobby of dressing a twelve foot skeleton?

But if your answer is, Yes, dammit, I do!, then I suggest you offer to let friends and family participate. If they want to dress Mr. Bones as the Statue of Liberty, you just need them to bring you the costume by June 15th, and they can be your hero-of-the-month-of-July. These things are always more fun if you have team participation. It would be good to have a back up plan for each change of costume, so that if the pirate outfit turns out to leak dye or refuse to actually stay on him, you can simply bring out the poncho and the sombrero, or the trench coat and the fedora.

At Christmas you will obviously want to put a Santa hat on him, but I vote you put an angel on his head and hang him with Christmas tree ornaments instead. If you sit him cross legged he will make a nice triangular Christmas tree shape.

Invest in several rolls of the kind of wire that will be invisible from the curb.
posted by Jane the Brown at 11:43 AM on October 1 [2 favorites]

A hawaiian shirt straw hat and margarita for summer? bandanna, blue shirt and a "we can do it" sign for international women's day? just covered in flowers for spring?
you're in good company in this endeavor!
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:41 PM on October 1

I think you should get one because clearly it would bring you joy. But I don't know that multiple costume changes per year would be less work than putting it up and taking it down just for October.
posted by metasarah at 2:35 PM on October 1 [1 favorite]

Do what makes you happy. The run of the mill 12 foot skeletons tend to only last a couple seasons in my neck of the woods before they start to fail. Our local 12 foot skeleton house recently had to replace their 12 foot skeleton with a new 12 foot skeleton, and now the old 12 foot skeleton is "buried" half coming out.

I wouldn't buy a 12 foot skeleton for me, as there's already a 12 foot skeleton house on the block, and there is a saying in the 12 foot skeleton community, don't start nothin, won't be nothin.
posted by Geckwoistmeinauto at 3:28 PM on October 1 [4 favorites]

Oh, and obviously a "steal your face" type Grateful Dead skeleton getup. Maybe get some bears.
posted by Geckwoistmeinauto at 3:31 PM on October 1 [2 favorites]

Someone will dig this up (heh) I like the idea that Halloween keeps Xmas decor at bay for a while
Whatever you do please share some pics, I'm gonna be that person on my street too
posted by winesong at 6:18 PM on October 1

No-sew costumes: Cupid in February (wings, bow, & two arrows; easy segue from Baby New Year), Roman senator for Ides of March (toga draping), Johnny Appleseed for Arbor Day (nationally, it's the last Friday in April; local observance calendar) or "Johnny Appleseed Day" (Sept. 26) (beard, burlap, cooking pot chapeau).
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:37 PM on October 2

I find them more than a bit cliche by this point.

An easily solved problem. This year, put up your giant skeleton and by the time next year rolls around everyone will know you have a giant skeleton, so you can celebrate Halloween by putting it in a big-sheet-with-eyes ghost costume. (The year after that? Perhaps it's a witch or a sexy cat.)
posted by Superilla at 3:07 PM on October 2 [1 favorite]

I don't know why so many people are assuming Mr. Bones is Christian. Maybe they want to celebrate Diwali or Eid? Given that they are up for Halloween primarily, it might be best to assume Me. bones is Pagan.
posted by brookeb at 4:02 PM on October 2 [1 favorite]

At the risk of falling squarely in the buzzkill column, I would be mindful of the optics of creating explicitly religious imagery around a giant symbol of death, particularly involving any religions not observed by the skeleton's caretakers. (Speaking 100% only for myself and not making any assumptions that anyone else would react similarly, but I'm generally fairly unbothered by morbid Halloween decorations and I was actually a little surprised to find myself having a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of a fun skeleton Moses.)
posted by eponym at 7:09 PM on October 2 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I'm solidly on the NO side, not because I don't love Halloween; come October first, I'm first out the door in orange, black, and purple! But this is a huge amount of unnecessary plastic that in a few years will be waste. It provides no tangible benefits (like plastic packaging of medical supplies or plastic parts that cannot be made of any other material) and will end up contaminating the environment for thousands of years. Everyone, especially in wealthy countries, has a responsibility to think about the life cycle of our consumer goods. What happens to our things when we are done with them? Throwing them in the trash doesn't make them go away, it just puts them out of sight and makes them someone else's problem later.
posted by Mournful Bagel Song at 8:49 AM on October 4 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Just a follow up: no Mr. Bones for me. My next door neighbors put up 4(!). They're not horrible, they have matching bowling shirts.
posted by Marky at 2:44 PM on October 10 [1 favorite]

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Reviews for "Upgrade your witchy accessories with the Witchy hat by Killstar"

1. Emily - 2 stars - I was really excited to get the Witchy Hat by Killstar because it looked so cute in the pictures, but I was really disappointed when it arrived. The quality was poor and the hat was much smaller than I expected. It didn't fit my head properly and looked awkward when I wore it. Overall, I don't think it was worth the price and I wouldn't recommend it.

2. Thomas - 1 star - I had high hopes for the Witchy Hat by Killstar, but it fell completely short of my expectations. The material felt cheap and flimsy, and it didn't hold its shape well. The hat looked nothing like the advertised pictures and just looked sloppy when I wore it. I was really disappointed and would not purchase from this brand again.

3. Sarah - 2 stars - The Witchy Hat by Killstar was a big letdown for me. The quality was really poor and the stitching started to come undone after only a few uses. The hat also didn't fit well and looked lopsided no matter how much I tried to adjust it. It's a shame because I really liked the design, but the execution was just not good. I wouldn't recommend this hat to anyone.

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