{"id":10690,"date":"2023-12-02T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2023-12-02T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T16:57:09","slug":"home-yuletide-prep-pt-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"HOME: Yuletide Prep, Pt. III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_4413-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-10689\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_4413-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_4413-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_4413-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_4413-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_4413-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And lo, the tree, she is up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We bought this tree at a great post-Xmas discount, from the Scotsdales on the Trumpington\/Shelfords side of Cambridge. I believe it was about \u00a3100-120-ish, down from a pre-Xmas price of roughly \u00a3400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve had it about a decade now. So it\u2019s paid for itself, compared to our old practice of having a real tree each year, many times over now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m still a bit icky about having a \u2018fake\u2019 tree. But it saves money, is easier to have at home, and looks pretty durn good. So I\u2019ve come to terms with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We still have a lot more tidying and decorating to do. But it feels great to have cleared space for the tree, sorted the tarry curtains out, and got the place looking nicer overall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought this tree at a great post-Xmas discount, from the Scotsdales on the Trumpington\/Shelfords side of Cambridge. I believe it was about \u00a3100-120-ish, down from a pre-Xmas price of roughly \u00a3400. We\u2019ve had it about a decade now. So it\u2019s paid for itself, compared to our old practice of having a real tree each &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOME: Yuletide Prep, Pt. III&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2Mq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}