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Home Depot just released its 2024 Halloween decoration collection, complete with a 7-foot skeleton dog
Home Depot has decided to get an early start on spooky season, as the retailer just released its 2024 Halloween collection. Home Depot is known for its large and in-charge Halloween decorations that span several feet tall, including the 12-foot-tall skeleton, which has gone viral on TikTok year after year for its grandiose presence on Halloween lovers’ front lawns.
The collection includes many other Halloween characters of similar size, including a 7-foot skeleton dog (that’s already sold out!) and fun inflatables, including iconic children’s characters such as Bluey and Hello Kitty. With all these fun decorations, and more available, Home Depot has become a one-stop-shop for those looking to go all out for Halloween.
Get into the Halloween spirit early by shopping the collection, available now in store and online.
Get the famous 12-foot skeleton at Home Depot before it sells out
If you’ve always wanted to add that TikTok-famous giant skeleton to your yard, now’s your chance. Home Depot has two versions of the 12-foot Skelly in stock now, including one with a motorized head. Both options feature LCD eyes with eight different display options.
This popular skeleton is almost sure to sell out (and fast!), so put in your order now if you want Skelly in your yard this Halloween.
The standard 12-foot Skelly is $299 at Home Depot now. The 12-foot Skelly with a motorized head is $379.
More of the Home Depot 2024 Halloween decoration collection
The Halloween decoration collection is robust, offering shoppers nearly 600 decorations to choose from. These range from their famously giant (and famously costly) lawn fixtures to smaller, more moderately priced items such as wreaths, doormats, themed lanterns, decorative stakes and more.
Although there’s several traditional halloween decor available, most of the collection is made up of their popular, oversized decorations. These include inflatables that aren’t as spooky as the giant skeletons. You can get inflatables of famous characters from loved movies and TV shows, including a Halloween minion, the Mandalorian with baby Yoda, Scooby Doo trick or treating and even Ursula from the Little Mermaid. There are also inflatables of classic Halloween characters, including Frankenstein, a nearly 6-foot-long skeleton cat and plenty of pumpkins.
There are also lots of options out there for Halloween fans that are more into the scary stuff. These include the 7-foot-tall skull and bone archway, an 8-foot-tall animated boogeyman, an animatronic demon reaper that can actually lurch at trick or treaters, and an animatronic zombie girl crawler that has eyes that light up red.
Whether you’re into the cute or creepy, there is decor for truly every type of Halloween fan at Home Depot.
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Explosion at Louisville plant leaves 11 employees injured
At least 11 employees were taken to hospitals and residents were urged to shelter in place on Tuesday after an explosion at a Louisville, Kentucky, business.
The Louisville Metro Emergency Services reported on social media a “hazardous materials incident” at 1901 Payne St., in Louisville. The address belongs to a facility operated by Givaudan Sense Colour, a manufacturer of food colorings for soft drinks and other products, according to officials and online records.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said emergency teams responded to the blast around 3 p.m. News outlets reported that neighbors heard what sounded like an explosion coming from the business. Overhead news video footage showed an industrial building with a large hole in its roof.
“The cause at this point of the explosion is unknown,” Greenberg said in a news conference. No one died in the explosion, he added.
Greenberg said officials spoke to employees inside the plant. “They have initially conveyed that everything was normal activity when the explosion occurred,” he said.
The Louisville Fire Department said in a post on the social platform X that multiple agencies were responding to a “large-scale incident.”
The Louisville Metro Emergency Services first urged people within a mile of the business to shelter in place, but that order was lifted in the afternoon. An evacuation order for the two surrounding blocks around the site of the explosion was still in place Tuesday afternoon.
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Aga Khan emerald, world’s most expensive green stone, fetches record $9 million at auction
A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly $9 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive green stone.
Sold by Christie’s, the Cartier diamond and emerald brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, dethrones a piece of jewelry made by the fashion house Bulgari, which Richard Burton gave as a wedding gift to fellow actor Elizabeth Taylor, as the most precious emerald.
In 1960, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan commissioned Cartier to set the emerald in a brooch with 20 marquise-cut diamonds for British socialite Nina Dyer, to whom he was briefly married.
Dyer then auctioned off the emerald to raise money for animals in 1969.
By chance that was Christie’s very first such sale in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the emerald finding its way back to the 110th edition this year.
It was bought by jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels before passing a few years later into the hands of Harry Winston, nicknamed the “King of Diamonds.”
“Emeralds are hot right now, and this one ticks all the boxes,” said Christie’s EMEA Head of Jewellery Max Fawcett. “…We might see an emerald of this quality come up for sale once every five or six years.”
Also set with diamonds, the previous record-holder fetched $6.5 million at an auction of part of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor’s renowned jewelry collection in New York.