So, consider this the Official COTH Confessional Thread.
And, even though I’m Baptist, I’ll start:
Last night I slept in my Irideon tights. And liked it. THey are SO darn comfy, that I guess for me, they are the equivalent of a soccer mom’s yoga pants. I’ve actually never even ridden in them…yet!
SO, what’s your COTH Confession?
I forgot socks to ride in yesterday, so I just cut the from the knee up of my pantyhose off.
Insta-socks! 
Forgot to get a new cell phone holder for the bigger smart phone… tucked that baby in between “the girls.” 
I handled and groomed my horse last night wearing only my Crocs. :eek:
I know, I KNOW…but I did it anyway.
I brought my horse’s (very dirty) heavyweight blanket home last weekend, so it was in my backseat for a few hours. It reeked of manure, so now my car reeks of manure.
…And I kinda like it.
I stole the horses’ Orvus. It’s in the shower for people hair.
I’ve curled up in my old horse’s BOT mesh sheet before. So comfy.
I once five-second-ruled a peanut butter cup off the floor of my trailer. And it didn’t hit a particularly clean patch, either. But it was the end of a very long show day, and, well, chocolate.
I once fell asleep in a chair holding my horse via lead rope. It was a comfy chair and I was waiting for the farrier.
Horse fell asleep, too. We woke up the farrier not there and an hour later. King never budged.
In the winter I love to wear my Tropical Rider Toasties so much I took off the deerskin patches so I wear them around the house.
I know, I can buy a pair without patches for less than half that price. But I was cold and got desperate:lol:
There wasn’t a bottle of water to be found at the barn…or in the trailer fridge…and walked to the house was toooooo faaaaaaaarrrrrr…so I drank out of the hose pipe. While my horse watched and tried to get some too…
Oh…one more.
I was boarding my horse at a friend’s barn in the city…and we went bowling for BFF’s bday one night…so I went in my breeches and tall boot socks. The bowling alley was PACKED.
Bowled my best game ever though. SOCK POWER!
I’ve thrown on breeches and tall boots to go to the grocery store because they were sitting on the floor (easy access) rather than having to go to my closet to fetch a pair of jeans.
I keep a waterproof quarter sheet in my car in case I get a flat in crappy weather.
I have eaten half of a carrot (unpealed and unwashed) that I intended on feeding to my horse b/c I didn’t eat before heading to the barn.
I bought a new pair of paddock boots to ride in and liked them so much that they became work/day attire and have never seen the inside of the barn!
hardly anything: tried a mrs pasture’s horse cookie once. wasn’t very good.:uhoh:
Wore my work shoes to the barns to feed last night. Didn’t feel like changing shoes…
After money issues meant I couldn’t get a horse after we sold my pony when I was a teenager, for years I used her old wool cooler as a second blanket on my bed. I only stopped because when I left the country for school it wasn’t cared for properly by my parents and got moth eaten. 
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I have eaten half of a carrot (unpealed and unwashed) that I intended on feeding to my horse b/c I didn’t eat before heading to the barn.[/QUOTE]
You know the scene in Frozen where the reindeer takes a bite of carrot and then the guy takes a bite? I do that all the time.
Also, my old pony liked soda. I’d give her a sip, then me a sip…
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I have eaten half of a carrot (unpealed and unwashed) that I intended on feeding to my horse b/c I didn’t eat before heading to the barn.[/QUOTE]
You know the scene in Frozen where the reindeer takes a bite of carrot and then the guy takes a bite? I do that all the time.
Also, my old pony liked soda. I’d give her a sip, then me a sip…
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I brought my horse’s (very dirty) heavyweight blanket home last weekend, so it was in my backseat for a few hours. It reeked of manure, so now my car reeks of manure.
…And I kinda like it.[/QUOTE]
Yup. Mine was for more than a few hours as we were driving to a show. I LOVED it. 
might do it again.
I stole mine’s sock whitening “purple” shampoo. It works better as I found out one day in a hair emergency, and cheaper than the human version, and I did buy him a new bottle.
[QUOTE=Ridinwyoming;7533172]In the winter I love to wear my Tropical Rider Toasties so much I took off the deerskin patches so I wear them around the house.
I know, I can buy a pair without patches for less than half that price. But I was cold and got desperate:lol:[/QUOTE]
I wear my winter breeches around the house too!
[QUOTE=Dramapony_misty;7533202]I’ve thrown on breeches and tall boots to go to the grocery store because they were sitting on the floor (easy access) rather than having to go to my closet to fetch a pair of jeans.
I have eaten half of a carrot (unpealed and unwashed) that I intended on feeding to my horse b/c I didn’t eat before heading to the barn.[/QUOTE]
Yes, to both accounts. But not tall boots, just paddock boots!
I wear work clothes to the barn more than a little often if I’m stopping by on my way to or from work just to say hi to him.
OK - my confessions:
I have rubbed his scent on my coat/clothing/wrists just so that I could continue to have horse aromatherapy throughout my day. He smells very good!
I saved the cuttings from the first time I trimmed his mane.
I have shared carrots.
I have chewed up mints and then mixed meds in them for him, like I was feeding a baby bird.
We have a goodbye ritual that he now initiates when he knows I’m leaving.
At shows, I will often do a late barn check just so that he knows it’s ok. Of course this is for HIM and has nothing to do with my own needs.
I think I like spending time with him more than I like being around most humans.
I won’t hesitate to spend money on him but have a very hard time spending it on myself for other things.
I recently had someone tell me (whom I dated briefly and at the same time I met my horse) that he knew that if he ever wanted to see me, it was going to have to be at the barn. Yup.
I anthropomorphize quite a bit.
Fun thread.
I have slept in my breeches - dirty stinky ones that I spent the whole day at the barn in (I was too exhausted to take them off! - Plus they are comfy!).
I met my husband at a beer tasting event (packed like the bowling alley) in my breeches and neon argyle socks (hey, I just came from the barn, no time to stop and change).
I will eat my horse’s carrots, if I am really hungry, I won’t even share Back when I was a working student, my friend and I would end up STARVING with no car to go get food. We would eat carrots, wheat bran and apple cider vinegar from the feed room.
Same working student area - we were known to take a dip in the horse exercise pool when the temps became unbearable. Horses poop in that thing on a regular basis.
I will drink out of the hose - I am not even positive the water is potable.
I will eat without washing my hands after doing all sorts of barn chores.
My car reeks like horse - and I don’t mind. I have a used manure fork in the back seat right now.
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