I know you’ve<\/span> seen it. The glowing eyes. The gangly frame that should not be able to stand, propped by rods unseen in the dark.<\/p>\n It is Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton\u2014the most fashionable Home Depot product of probably the past decade. If you live in America, this skeleton presides over a yard near you. And newly this year,<\/a> a smaller, 6.5-foot \u201cUltra Skelly\u201d<\/a> is outfitted with motion sensors and motors to make life truly weird\u2014and also act as a strange alarm system against package thieves and hungry opossums<\/a>.<\/p>\n Anyway, it’s usually well north of $200. But because Halloween is pretty much already happening, Skelly and its entire skeleton brood of giant cat and dog are all 75 percent off.<\/p>\n Which, finally, is a price I’m willing to pay. I have secretly coveted this skeleton and its kin, the comically grim watchmen of American October. But I, like my father before me and his father before him, am a cheapskate about all things but food and drink, and will talk myself out of anything that’s not a) edible b) potable or c) verifiably \u201ca deal.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, here I am, world. This is a deal. Ultra Skelly is $70. The sitting Skelly dog is $63, not $249.<\/a> The 5-foot-long Skelly cat is a mere $50. Beware the Skelly cat, my friend! The eyes that light, the claws that do nothing in particular!<\/em><\/p>\n Availability is, let’s say, scarce. Skelly is already out of stock for delivery from The Home Depot, at least in my zip code: Just the dog and cat can speed their way through the night to join you before Halloween.<\/p>\n
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