I love Halloween, and the minute it’s October, my stuff, tacky or not, goes up. However, we do not have the blow-up giant figures…mainly because out here, either a coyote pack would attack it or an errant hunter would shoot it. And the OP handmade some very nice wooden cut-outs that probably took quite some time and money, and I would definitely be pissed if someone tore them up.
Elbows, the purpose of setting out decorations well in advance of Halloween is to lure and trap some children early on so that they will be properly decomposed for front-lawn display by Halloween.
For some good examples, have a stroll down Egerton between the tracks and the river.
See, if I were the gnome-owner, I’d think that’s funny as hell. I’d probably start setting up obstacle courses or erecting gnome-sized defensive battlements or something.