But Christmas came and went. It was January, and the Santa hats had disappeared, but the skeletons remained. The neighbors were irate by February, but even still, no one bothered to check in with their neighbor. Turns out, his wife had almost died a few times during that time, and the constant hospital admissions and discharges were too many to count. The couple had young kids in the house and could barely cope, but then the neighbors started leaving nasty notes about the skeletons.