{"id":602759,"date":"2026-11-12T19:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=602759"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:27:59","slug":"i-ll-buy-it-on-a-thousand-year-instalment-plan-minsk-woman-finds-new-year-decoration-priced-at-10-200-belarusian-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/i-ll-buy-it-on-a-thousand-year-instalment-plan-minsk-woman-finds-new-year-decoration-priced-at-10-200-belarusian-rubles","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ll Buy It On A Thousand-Year Instalment Plan.\u201d Minsk Woman Finds New Year Decoration Priced At 10,200 Belarusian Rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Minsk resident shared an unusual find from the Galleria shopping centre. At the Squirrel boutique, she spotted furry marmots wearing red scarves and decorated with fir branches and bells \u2014 adorable ornaments for the New Year table, priced at 10,200 Belarusian rubles (BYN) each ($3,400 at the National Bank\u2019s exchange rate).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-602759-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/threadsdownloader.com_de3d30-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/threadsdownloader.com_de3d30-2.mp4\">https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/threadsdownloader.com_de3d30-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><i>\u201cI\u2019m thinking of buying one on a thousand-year instalment plan. I\u2019ll put it on the New Year table between some imitation caviar costing 5 BYN and a bottle of Soviet Champagne for 15,\u201d<\/i> the author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@nastasja_smile\/post\/DfpXhm8jfqg?xmt=AQG0N62r-d_koX336hWXc2GKSij0Sy7beetfj3t6dNS4aN54i7HT4pOzZHeIUNywy4mheihY&amp;slof=1\">post<\/a>, <strong>nastasja_smile<\/strong>, jokes, asking other Threads users how to recover from this visual and financial shock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-602755 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-12-at-18.58.48-973x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"973\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-12-at-18.58.48-973x1024.png 973w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-12-at-18.58.48-285x300.png 285w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-12-at-18.58.48-768x808.png 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-12-at-18.58.48-760x800.png 760w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-12-at-18.58.48.png 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere\u2019s something rather vacant about their expressions,\u201d<\/i> one commenter noted. The author of the post suggested it was disdain.<\/p>\n<p>At 10,200 BYN, the ornament costs more than three average monthly salaries in Belarus before tax. The most productive Wildberries warehouse workers \u2014 for whose jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusians-queue-overnight-for-warehouse-jobs-at-wildberries-paying-from-1-500-belarusian-rubles\">Minsk residents queue overnight<\/a> \u2014 would have to spend at least two months\u2019 wages to buy just one of these marmots.<\/p>\n<p>The Squirrel boutique at Galleria specialises in premium tableware, cutlery, home textiles, souvenirs and handmade figurines from European brands. Judging by the online catalogue on the boutique\u2019s website, the marmots are expensive even by the store\u2019s premium standards: a half-metre-tall \u201cSanta with Rabbits\u201d costs 2,080 BYN, while a \u201cDeer with Silver-Plated Antlers\u201d is priced at 825 BYN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minsk resident shared an unusual find from the Galleria shopping centre. At the Squirrel boutique, she spotted furry marmots wearing red scarves and decorated with fir branches and bells \u2014 adorable ornaments for the New Year table, priced at 10,200 Belarusian rubles (BYN) each ($3,400 at the National Bank\u2019s exchange rate). \u201cI\u2019m thinking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":602761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af5f72422dd7.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cI\u2019ll Buy It On A Thousand-Year Instalment Plan.\u201d Minsk Woman Finds New Year Decoration Priced At 10,200 Belarusian Rubles"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[143096],"class_list":["post-602759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","tag-minsk"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602764,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602759\/revisions\/602764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}