Some kind of merry?

Not exactly my style of decorating. So far, about all I've done is hang a homemade swag of cedar boughs on each of the outside doors and put up a little decoration with a few lights. 

There's something about all that plastic that leaves me feeling about as deflated as the decorations in the photo appear to be. 

It's a question I've asked before, and one I'll ask again: how is it that plastic shopping bags at the supermarket (which most of us reuse at least once for collecting wet garbage) are banned, but gigantic plastic characters are all the rage?

How long must it take for a five-foot-tall plastic snowman to degrade when it goes to the landfill?

And no, I'm not the one who poked holes in all those characters, though I'll admit, I've certainly been tempted.