How many door decorations bedeck the apartment doors in my building?

I have never seen so many door decorations in an apartment building. But then, I had never previously lived in a condo building largely populated by retired people. (Ownership+age=door decor?)

So, on October 3, 2006, I counted them. Everything on each door on all twelve floors.

136 apartments had
101 door decorations

but
59 doors were bare (including mine).

The 6th floor won the Most Spirit Award for sporting 15 door decorations, the highest number of any floor. The 9th floor came in a close second with 14, and floors 4 and 12 each rounded up 12 decorations. The 7th floor is the coldest with a mere 3. Even the 1st floor, which only has four apartments, managed a high ratio with four total decorations. The highest number of decorations on a single door was 4.

For my census, I had to figure out how to categorize the decorations. After a preliminary review of some doors, I used the following categories in my inventory:

Flags - Wreaths - Holiday - Name (Plate/Sticker) - Sticker - General - Sign/Instructions - Whistle Thing

(I don't know how to describe the whistle thing, except that it looks like a flatter metal Whistle Pop stuck on the door, minus the stick. It was odd enough that I gave it a category, even though only a couple greet a midnight viewer.)

The general breakdown:

34 wreaths
25 general (a bow, a glass sunflower, a dala horse)
18 name plates or stickers
11 holiday-specific (all Halloween except for one Christmas early bird/slacker)
6 American flags
3 instructional signs

I conducted this census in the middle of the night. It had to be late enough when most people were in bed, but not too late or it would really freak someone out if they heard me walking the building hallways and stairwells. And trust me--in that building, someone will notice.

Due to the need for a stealth census, few photographs were taken. The camera is disturbingly loud in a silent midnight hallway lined with busybodies. That challenge remains for a future planned task... But to give you a flavor, one late night snap is included in this proof, along with my notes.

Anyone obsessed enough to quality check my counting may notice a few small discrepancies that I corrected. Midway through the building, I wondered if I should count door knockers (no, since we have doorbells and those were replacements) or welcome mats (depended how functional or decorative). But I believe that my count is suitably correct for the culture of the building.

A follow-up photographic census is planned for the major holiday season...