You can’t ever get rid of the pony sized polos! As soon as you do, you’ll end up with a pony.
Ask me how I know 
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Mine has harbored a multitude of solo bell boots, expired medications, and a leather lead shank that’s never been attached to a horse but one trainer insisted we have.
But no expired snacks as in this video.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqBwxXJ/
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Is there an episode asking how many blankets are too many blankets (I refuse to give a number but the ones in active use take up 3 trunks, the spares take up 2 trunks plus a bunch of space, or the entire space, in an unfinished room in my basement). And why, when I have all these blankets, is the one blanket I want, missing? Plus, why do I keep buying more? It’s a mystery…
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I can not imagine them doing an episode on this because clearly there is no such thing as too many blankets.
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Cough. Just found an Etsy seller with sewing patterns for horse blankets. I love to sew big stuff, such as window treatments. Cough.
Many moons ago, I bought a pattern to make turn out blankets. All excited to sew up my own blankets and save money.
When I shopped for the layers to make a turnout blanket (water proof outer, etc) I very quickly learned that it was cheaper to buy a made blanket than it was to buy the material to make a blanket.
I hope your experience is different than mine.
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I am 5’2" and just went from 15.3H/72" blanket to 17.1H/84"! Fortunately, new pony came with a trusseau. But never say never
My last horse reached through his stall bars to bite mine and broke the core. 
@JBCool: [Narrator voice] ‘‘The horse is a gentle, kind animal with no aggressive tendencies. It saves its bites for apples and other sweet treats. It welcomes a connection with its human partner and does best with firm guidance, rewards and occasional correction.’’ [Narrator voice]
Crrrrraaaaack! Snap!
[Horse voice] ``Heh, heh, heh. I has a naughty." [Horse voice]
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Best part is I was tacking him up in said stall when he did it. He was extremely stealthy about it. But, it was a new whip and I used it until I sold him anyway. Didn’t get him far.
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Everyone I’ve ever known has a whip/crop mended with electrical tape that Will. Not. Die.
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I’ve outgrown any ability to house the collection in trunks.
I now have an attic full of old blankets (now everyone wears Horseware, but maybe someday I’ll need that Triple Crown stable blanket!), black tack (from when I lived and showed in Germany, where black isn’t just for dressage horses), show bridles (I have a bit of an Edgewood addiction, and someday I might have 12 horses that will show in the hunters at the same time), riding clothes (even if I am 30+ lbs heavier now, I’m sure the next diet will be the one that sticks and I’ll be able to fit into those itsy bitsy teeny weenie breeches and show coats again).
These boxes are combined with artwork I did in college, sentimental tchotchkes from my travels around the world, several stacks of old uniform and deployment gear that I can’t toss until I retire and know the USAF doesn’t want it all back, etc. Don’t even get me started on the stacks of boxes filled with DH’s junk.
A life well lived comes with lots of baggage.
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@blue_heron, I’m so looking forward to mounting this thing, somehow, inside my trunk’s lid. It was $5 in 1979 at the Rambling Brook Farm tack sale. That, and a $15 secondhand hunt cap, were my first steps into the World of Horsey Accessories. I remember buying them as though it were yesterday. Such a happy memory of my dear, late father and how he enabled my obsession.
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My 15.3 and my 17 hh both wore 80/81s. My QH is wide and long.
WOW!
I did a blanket inventory this fall for 2 horses as I moved my older horse to a retirement farm and needed to take some blankets out to him.
It’s bad, really bad. I think I had 19 turnout blankets and liners. This doesn’t count coolers (4) and a quarter sheet. I found rainsheets and a liner I didn’t know I had. Oh, and my horses are close enough in size now that the baby is grown they can share blankets.
In my defense, I had 2 mediums that were very ripped and I replaced them and just last year found someone who was willing to repair them. So they are back in rotation now.
And now to incriminate myself - immediately after my blanket inventory shame, a friend offered me a brand new Rambo Wug heavy weight for $180 and I bought it.
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You know why we have so many blankies/sheets/throws? Because they go on sale and we can’t resist. And you need double everything, you reason: one to launder and one to wear. And even if what you’re buying doesn’t fit the NOW horse, it MAY fit the SOMEDAY horse, and all the more so if it’s your favorite blankie manufacturer/pattern ever and couldn’t afford it until you found it on the clearance rack.
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