COTH True Confessions...

[RugBug]

@Frosty M;7534246

I think the five second rule applies to germs, not sticky manure.

I doesn’t truly apply to anything…it’s just justification so we don’t feel bad for picking the stuff up off the ground.

[QUOTE=Daisyesq;7534544]
I think I have done all of these things listed above - not so shocking to drink from the hose, jump bareback or pee in a stall. C’mon, we were raised in a barn! Of course we do those things.

I also have a saddle pad “problem,” I have about 8 pads (and only one horse). But I don’t think I’m done buying them. He also has 7 or 8 blankets and coolers - one for every variety of weather combination. Good thing my boarding barn has storage space.[/QUOTE]

I haven’t done a lot of these things, but I do drink from the hose and feel like a wild woman doing so. When I think about where that hose as been, it gives me pause, but then I figure I’m doing my immune system some good.

Oh, and I have at least 20 square pads, two shaped fleece pads, 2 fleece half pads, a sheepskin halfpad, a Mattes Pad, an Equifit memory foam pad, two leather Tad Coffin pads, a Thinline, a Roma with a front rise and one with a rear rise, etc. I can pretty much outfit any horse and any saddle, if need be. I’m also thinking of buying some more. Eek!

I have 5 saddles and only two horses. I’ve only ever had one or two horses at a time. Why do I need five close contact saddles?

[QUOTE=Pocket Pony;7534603]
I am sure I’m not different from anyone else here, but I’m pretty much obsessed with my horses. Even though I’m in my 40s I daydream about running off to be a working student or groom or cowgirl and being around horses and watching them all day long.[/QUOTE]

I’m currently in the clutches of this. If I could just figure out how to make it happen. sigh.

[charismaryllis]

@AmarachAcres;7534898

Anyway, I put medication on his scratches and suddenly it started to pour out of no where. I didn’t want to put him back out in the pasture until the medication had time to set. He didn’t need vet wrap so I just opened the kitchen door and sat on a stool with King in the kitchen until the rain stopped.

i dunno, this makes perfect sense to me.

[trivial]

Hm, let’s see.

I regularly drink out of the hose/fill my water bottle from it. I figure, if it’s clear and potable for the horses, it’s good enough for me!

I love cleaning tack. LOVE. Especially taking apart and oiling bridles.

When I’m at the barn, the only time I wash my hands is after I use the toilet. And yes, I do regularly eat after I ride!

I share carrots with the horses. And apples, and peppermints, and…

I maybe don’t discipline my guy as much as I should when he grabs the zipper on my jacket to hear the zzzzip sound. :uhoh:

I maybe don’t clean my boots before I walk into the house… I do take them off when I get inside, though.

As a kid, I used to set up two mounting blocks and a broom and try to get my old mare to jump them. In a western saddle. She was a saint.

[Stitch_In_Time]

After a long show before heading back to the hotel room a group of us tried on swimwear in Walmart with our breeches and boots still on (hey, they were pull-ons!!).

[leaf]

These posts are so much fun!
This is weird, but horse folks will understand.
I’ve thought that if I was ever in a coma, I’d hope that someone would put a saddle pad under my nose. Or better yet, rub a horse down with a wash cloth and drape it over my face. If I didn’t wake up ( oh man, time to feed the horses), at least I’d have pleasant thoughts while comatose.

[laskiblue]

I use the hairbrush for my mare’s mane and tail on my own hair while I’m at the barn.

[BigHorseLittleHorse]

[QUOTE=boosma47;7534714]
Have any of you less-than-anal types noticed strong immune systems?

Horsepeople are tougher than dirt ;)[/QUOTE]

Absolutely, I get sick much less often and much less severely than most of my friends. And it goes double for kids growing up around horses/on farms! My friend’s neighbor says her kids used to get sick constantly, but since she’s started bringing them over to my friend’s farm to play, they get sick much less.

I have done most of the things in this thread, and I even have a baseball hat that says “Yes, I WAS Raised In A Barn!”

[_Teddy]

I am a tack whore, my car is a a mobile tack room(whats wrong with that?)

share food with horses. eat with dirty gloves/hands

[TWH_Girl]

[QUOTE=cnvh;7533075]
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]

:lol: That is hilarious!!! Who can possibly top that??!

My confession is that I routinely add items to my monthly Smartpak order or buy horsey stuff online and have it shipped to work without hubby knowing about it. I do this more than I should and I sometimes feel (mildly) guilty, though obviously not enough to stop doing i! I’ve done this with vet appts and lessons too- scheduled them, paid cash, hubby can’t complain…you know how it goes.

[ByTheBook]

[QUOTE=TWH Girl;7535248]
:lol: That is hilarious!!! Who can possibly top that??!

My confession is that I routinely add items to my monthly Smartpak order or buy horsey stuff online and have it shipped to work without hubby knowing about it. I do this more than I should and I sometimes feel (mildly) guilty, though obviously not enough to stop doing i! I’ve done this with vet appts and lessons too- scheduled them, paid cash, hubby can’t complain…you know how it goes.[/QUOTE]

Okay, I just did this. I bought a used side saddle and did it in two payments. I didn’t tell him about the first payment, but I did tell him about the second one. He was happy at what I good deal I found. Sheesh, feel a little guilty about that one.

I put the electrical tape roll in my mouth while I’m putting on a polo and then use it to secure the Velcro. Sometimes, I put it on the groom area mat, sometimes in my mouth–the same roll.

I have been known to wake up in the middle of the night and go check the horses.

I have also drank from my horses’ water bucket in a pinch, face down in it and all.

[wcporter]

The other day I was half way through a double cheeseburger from the drive-thru at McDonalds on my way home from the barn before I remembered that I had not washed my hands after cleaning my horse’s sheath.

I was starving so I finished the burger anyway :o

[HorseKrazy]

^^^ how did you not smell that? Lol! GAG! ;). I am guilty of the majority of things mentioned here…I can’t elaborate because I’m on foal watch (the imminent kind) but I pro use to share!

[Lady_Eboshi]

[QUOTE=wcporter;7535403]
The other day I was half way through a double cheeseburger from the drive-thru at McDonalds on my way home from the barn before I remembered that I had not washed my hands after cleaning my horse’s sheath.

I was starving so I finished the burger anyway :o[/QUOTE]

My vet was fussing around looking for gloves for her next app’t, a sheath clean, and I reminded her that all known bad-asses use their bare hands for Picking Beans. :lol:

[Belmont]

I’ve done most of what was mentioned above. The drinking, eating, unwashed hands, and sleeping in riding clothes.

[QUOTE=laskiblue;7535132]
I use the hairbrush for my mare’s mane and tail on my own hair while I’m at the barn.[/QUOTE]

I do this all the time. SO thinks it is disgusting. I really don’t see a problem with it. Hell, he gets a bath all the time and is probably cleaner than I most the time.

As a WS, we often took off our shirts and dumped them into bucks & ponds before going on loops or rides. We were also known to get in our bikinis and go ride to the pond or across the neighborhood to another pond. Bathes in the wash racks… etc.

I’m a online shopper. I’m always justifying my newest horsey buys to SO by “it was such a good deal” or “i combined like three smartpak coupons and saved $40!!!”.

As a kid, I used to have a fake horse head that strapped around your waist. I would set up “jumps” with movie boxes, ropes, brooms, and anything else you could find. I would spend hours running around the house jumping the jumps and watching Danny, National Velvet, Lightning The WHite Stallion, Black Beauty, Black beauty (series tapes), old Pony Club tapes, and more. My family would literally hide the horse head from me so I wouldn’t do it because I would bother them ot “judge me in a horse show” or embarrass them by running around.

I’ve been known to put my saddles on work benches, work out benches, or couch arms to practice along with movies and videos now (and when I was younger). :lol:

I would take all the ribbons off the wall and used them in my fake horse shows. I would always compete against my imaginary friends and of course I always won. I would talk like a judge, out loud, in public while on my bike.

I still do fake horse shows on my horse when I am alone now, 17 years later…

I sketch “dream barns” and “dream properties” all the time, floor plans and landscape plans.

Literally, I was probably the weirdest kid ever.

[Lady_Eboshi]

I collect the old-time horsey kids’ books, which lots of people do; but I still also READ them!

[QH_Fan]

I have done most of the things posted. My own is that I have a glass in my bedroom with a bunch of my geldings baby teeth. He died two years ago at the age of twenty six. If the house burns down that is the first thing I’m grabbing. When I was married I bought so much crap my husband didn’t know about we could have bought a house. Several years ago a friend bought a very expensive saddle at QH Congress. She traded her old saddle in, the difference in the two saddles was about 10k. She was offered a new saddle case with the new saddle brand name on it, but kept her old one. Hubby has been carrying the new saddle to the truck and has NO idea!

[CaitlinandTheBay]

A few weeks ago, I got a nasty cut, but wouldn’t buy Neosporin b/c $3 for a tube was “too expensive”. Last week, my horse had a small puncture and I drove 5 miles and paid $6 to buy him a tube from the gas station (upon Vet’s recommendation).

My horse had a piece of straw sticking out the back end, so I pulled it out. It was at least 12 inches long.

I stop by Sonic on the way to the barn and buy 2 bags of apple slices- one for him and one for me.

I keep a spare wool cooler in my car and regularly curl up in it at work.

ETA: I finished reading this post, and when I got to ChocoMare’s saddle pad confession, I immediately went and hunted down the striped pad and bought it. My dark bay will look smashing in it!

I own one horse and 4 saddles.

I own approximately 9 bridles

I have about 15 girths. All between 46 and 52 inches

I used saddle pads as rugs in various rooms of my house (kitchen, bath, under the desk).

It has never, ever occurred to me NOT to clean my horse’s sheath bare handed. In fact, I just pulled a bean on Monday… I also forgot to wash my hands. I probably ate after that too.

[JCS]

I once slept in my tall boots after a show because I couldn’t pull them off by myself, no one was around to help, and I was exhausted. NOT recommended.

Hmmm, that makes me realize just how very old my tall boots are (pre-back-zip era!). That was in college, in 2000, and I still have the same pair of boots. Time to go shopping!

[lintesia]

On really hot days, I used to wonder what it would be like to submerge my entire head in my horse’s extra large freshly-filled water bucket. Then one day I did it. It felt GREAT!!! (And I’m no spring chicken…)

[TaterTotTB]

When I am at home, I was my hands all the time, it gets a bit excessive, honestly. But at the barn, I will clean 20 stalls and do other assorted barn chores and then eat lunch without even considering washing my hands. Even if my hands are super dirty, it just doesn’t bother me at the barn, even if it would drive me crackers at home not to wash them!