Giant Home Depot Skeletons Are on Crazy Sale Right Now (2025)

I know you did I saw it with shining eyes. A gangly frame that won’t be able to stand, prodded by unseen rods in the dark.

This is Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton – perhaps the most fashionable Home Depot product of the last decade. If you live in America, this skeleton will be in a yard near you. And new this year, a small, 6.5-foot “Ultra Scaly” Equipped with motion sensors and motors to make life really weird—and act as a quirky alarm system against package thieves and Hungry opossums.

However, it’s usually north of $200. But since Halloween is already pretty much happening, Skelly and his entire skeletal brood of giant cats and dogs are all 75 percent off.

Which, finally, is a price I’m willing to pay. I secretly coveted this skeleton and its kin, the ridiculously terrifying guardians of the American October. But I, like my father before me and his father before him, are a cheapskate in everything but food and drink, and will talk myself out of anything that is a) not edible b) drinkable or c) verifiably “a deal”.

Well, here I am, world. It’s a deal. Ultra Scaly $70. D Skelly Dog Sitting $63, not $249. The 5-foot-tall scaly cat is only $50. Beware the Skelly cat, my friend! Eyes that light, claws that do not do anything special!

Availability, let’s say, is scarce. Skelly’s is already out of stock for delivery from Home Depot, at least in my zip code: just dogs and cats can hurry their way through the night to join you before Halloween.

Courtesy of Home Depot