to cover his seasonal gap. >> you start decorating around the beginning of december and you'll fill in at least that time period and a little bit of takedown. we should be able to fill another four to six weeks of work. >> brandon steechs is the president of christmas decor. >> we operate a business in the winter time. we go out to customers' homes, design displays, install them, maintain them and take them down it at the end of the year. >> he understood arnie's had dilemma. >> train all these individuals. it's not easy for them personally to be laid off year to year. sometimes you actually lose them because they find a full-time job that was weekly. >> christmas decor was started in 1986 in hopes of making the decision to run year-round easier for seasonal business owners. >> we were a landscape company and we've grown to a size where we had to make the hard decisions in the winter time.