Mine end up heaped behind the front door, or on the bathroom or closet floor… 
I’m planning on adding a bench with storage in the entryway where I can hide all this stuff away without tracking mud into the house. What do you do?
Keep most of this stuff in the barn, though my riding boots are usually in a boot bag in the trunk of my car.
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Boots, gloves and half-chaps stay in the trunk of my car… Yes, my car might smell a little as a result but I’m used to it, the boyfriend doesn’t complain and really no one else rides in my car. 
I do try to keep the boots and half chaps relatively clean in order to minimize any aroma.
I got one of those Ovation backpacks and basically store everything else in there (like my helmet), with the exception of my saddle of course. I have a saddle stand in the spare bedroom and it has a little rack underneath it, so I store the backpack there. Saddle pad and girth are either washed or go outside to air out before I put them on the saddle stand. It might be an eye sore to others but doesn’t really bug me!
I (try to) keep everything at the barn except my boots, a bucket, and a bag of alfalfa cubes. I luckily have a large standing tack trunk that holds all my stuff, and another storage bin for blankets that I can keep at the barn.
I keep the bucket and cubes at home for when I want to soak anything beforehand, but lately I have been soaking at the barn so might just leave all that too.
That’s the idea, at least. There’s still a ton of horse stuff in my hallway and car that doesn’t belong.
ETA: I totally misread the topic of this. My actual answer: in the hallway by the front door. Let me know when you find a better place :lol:
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I have a small antique armoir that holds most of my riding clothes and boots and helmets in my laundry room (which is just a wide hall). And the boots/socks I wear day to day stay in a basket just inside the front door.
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Hmmm I like this basket idea - much cheaper than a bench!
In my feed/tack room, or in the trailer.
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I keep some of my stuff in my locker at the barn, however, I have an extra locker that I used at my old barn that I keep in my house and I always keep all my saddle pads, show stuff, boots, etc. in there. I’m pretty sure they sell storage lockers that are for general use at Lowe’s? I used to know someone who used one of those for her regular locker at my old barn, so you could get one of those to keep your stuff in if your willing to make the investment.
Please, tell me more about these storage lockers… the BO and her husband are building a new barn (SQUEE!!) and maybe they’ll let me install one! If not, maybe I could put one in a spare bedroom and thus clean out the poor guest bedroom. Thank you in advance!
Boots and helmet in the mud room off the garage. Half chaps in the trunk of the car. I used to wash my gloves after almost every ride, or at least once a week, so they were “kept” in the laundry basket or, if clean, inside my helmet.
That was back when I had a house, and a mud room, and a horse to ride.
I turned an old bookshelf into a cubby out in the garage that I store all of my shoes and boots in because if I kept them in the house my dogs would eat them.
I also have an old saddle rack my dad built for me when I boarded at a different barn that I keep in the garage. It’s fairly monstrous, but it has two 3x3 shelves on the bottom, two saddle racks, a whole bunch of hooks, and another 3x3 shelf at the top. I store my extra saddle pads on it now (because if I kept them in the house the cats would pee on them) as well as extra tack and junk that I want to keep but don’t need at the barn all the time.
Inside, my great big IKEA dresser is filled entirely with horse clothing. Non-horse clothing gets to live in the closet - my friends tell me I smell much less like a barn now that I keep those clothes separate.
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I don’t own a horse so I don’t have a spot at the barn for my things - everything lives at home.
I have a multi-level wooden shelf. The top shelf has a big fabric bin with all my breeches/tights, the second shelf has a small set of plastic drawers full of my riding socks, and the third shelf has a bin with my helmet, gloves, spurs, and crops as well as a few other small items. My riding shirts are in another bin in the closet.
My saddle is on one of those folding stands, with pads and girths stacked on the rack below, and my half chaps also live here. Bridles, halters, breastplates, and lead ropes are on a wooden wall rack with pegs.
Stuff I’m not currently using is in one of two tack boxes - one in an upstairs closet, one in the basement.
I keep everything at the barn except my boots. And specifically, I keep them all in one of those Sterite tubs, because I hate the ideas of spiders or dust in my helmet or gloves!
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Boots are in my closet, gloves in my dresser drawer and I don’t wear half-chaps.
Helmet lives in the tack room of my trailer. I used to worry about the heat, but I think my head is in more danger from a forgotten helmet than a heated one so this is one of life’s compromises. When riding from home I’ve actually made it as far as a mile down the road without it and had to call DH to bring it to me.
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Boots and half chaps live in the garage and everything else that I use every day is in my trunk (Stanley Job Chest) at the barn. I am a wee bit of a tack hoarder so my extras of everything live in the garage since space at the barn is very limited. [ATTACH=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“thumb”,“data-attachmentid”:10184694}[/ATTACH]
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Repurposed shoe shelf from the container store was what I ended up using for my barn stuff. When I kept a horse at a boarding barn, I could store it all there but now that I’ve moved it all home (IE: can’t keep chaps/boots there and just leave the mud boots in the garage) I store everything there. It’s in the laundry room, right off the garage entrance so I can contain my horse hair and assorted barn debris. (Depending on helmet size, search “purse cubby” or “shoe cubby” and see if anything is a viable fit. There’s also stackable shelves.) You could also buy something like a mesh file cart from an office supply store - two drawer ones should hold helmet & boots + everything else.
During show season… On the dining room table. After show season, in the corner of the bedroom.
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I have a room dedicated to clothes but tack is at the barn
I got lucky with the townhouse we recently purchased. There is a mudroom, where I keep my boots and half chaps. All other horse things “in storage” in a shed we have in the backyard.
My tall boots stay in my closet to protect them from leather loving springer spaniel! Paddock boots stay in the coat closet so I dont track mud in the house. I put my gloves, helmet, hairnets, etc… (anything not in my trunk) in an LL Bean boat tote and it either stays in my car or I tuck it on the floor of my coat closet. Then in my closet I have a basket that catches belt, spurs I had on that day, hat, etc…
