You know your a horse person if.

[Deanna]

How to tell if your a horseperson if you would rather have that sliver show saddle than a diamond ring, If you would rather own a tractor than a BMW. If your best set of shoes is your very expensive riding boots. When your husband asks you what you want for your birthday you say a new show bridle. If your coworkers roll there eyes everytime you talk about your horses, If your husband rolls his eyes when you meet another horse person and talk endlessly about horses, If you enjoy shopping not at the mall but at the tack store, If You buy your horse a coat before you get one yourself, If your barn is cleaner than your house, Your idea of stress relief is cleaning a stall.

Feel free to add more.

[dreamen_big]

thats cute and so true

[greygirls]

Well I can answer yes to pretty much all of those!

I have to laugh when I see the part of the "Sex & The City" movie where he asks her if he should get her a wedding ring & she says "No, just get me a really big closet!" Of course, for us horsie gals it'd be a really nice barn or something along those lines. I can think of a million things I'd prefer than a ring, & it's all horse stuff..or horses themeselves.

[canteringkids]

My favorite was when I found out I was pregnant with my first child. I had to ask, "Is there a tack shop for babies?"

Us horse-people have a one-track mind!

[Horsie Michelle]

Hey I might take the diamond ring if it was pretty big...so I could sell it and get a show saddle and bridle, pad, etc.

So true, so true though to all.

Where I grew up there were only two tack stores~and small ones at that. More feed, wormers and such than tack. SFL had more but then I moved to Ocala a year and a half ago and I swear I thought I fell into heaven. I should really get a bumper sticker-" So many tack shops, so little time" lol. Then you add in all the farms to drool over and the western stores and I don't know how I made it through life anywhere else for the last 30 years!

[Rhiannon]

I say you're a horse person if:

• You go to work with an alfalfa leaf or two in your hair;
• Your idea of a dream vacation is to go to horse ranches and look at new prospects;
• Your other idea of a dream vacation is to go on an extended trail ride with your horse;
• You'll eat mac and cheese while your horse gets the best hay and grain that money can buy;
• Other people buy cars while you shop for a new horse trailer;
• You probably need a "mud room" in your house;
• The smell of a horse or the smell of a tack shop is the best possible smell in the world;
• Stepping in horse poop - while you may try to avoid it - doesn't make you sick or disgusted. A little horse poop never hurt anybody;
• Your barn is cleaner than your house;
• Your idea of entertainment is picking up free horse classifieds;
• You can't afford a new wardrobe but you can come up with money to buy a new horse;
• Your idea of heaven is being at the barn at feeding time listening to your horses contentedly munching their hay;
• You put as much thought into what you will name your new foal and you did in naming your child;
• You know that pasture land is worth so much more than a big, expensive house!
• You'll happily live in a shack before you'll give up your horses.

[Deanna]

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-When buying a house you are more interested in what the barn and property look like than the home itself.
-If you find hay in all your pockets fishing for your truck keys.
-You have hauled a bale of hay in the trunk of your car.

[klattekm]

Originally Posted by Deanna

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-When buying a house you are more interested in what the barn and property look like than the home itself.
-If you find hay in all your pockets fishing for your truck keys.
-You have hauled a bale of hay in the trunk of your car.

So so true..... I hauled a bale in the trunk of my little mercury tracer trio about 2yrs ago and the hay will not come out! I have vaccumed multiple times..... I just figure if I sell that car, the new owner will just have to deal with it!

[rideatennwalker]

If you think the smell of your horse should be a new perfume.
You take your shoes off and have hay stuck to your socks.
You wear hoddies and go in the store pull out your wallet and hay and grain come out the front pocket.

[jkj10209]

that is all so true... yesterday when I found my dream horse I posted her earlier on meet Paris... I had to sweet talk my fiance into taking money out of our Wedding Fund but hey I will find a way to make it back one way or another. Horses are addicting and soothing!

[Sonseeahray's_girl]

If your boots leave a mud trail through the grocery store

If you cannot even smell the anymore.

If you cannot get your fingernails clean

If every time you see an open field you think of how much fun it would be to canter across it.

[ImzadiMoon]

Everything that has been posted here is absolutely TRUE!!!

Another good one, along with not being able to get your fingernails completely clean, is not being able to completely keep your rings free of horse hair, dust, hay and feed. I recently sent my rings with a friend who was having her cleaned, and when she came back she said the folks at the jewelry shop were afraid to clean my rings...they worried that the only thing keeping the little diamonds IN their settings was the dirt!! LMAO!!!

[singing tree]

Here's one-
if you fall down - hard - on your knee cap (which I did) while carrying your saddle and bridle out to meet your friend coming to pick up your horse for a trail ride, you
1) don't look at the injury, as long as you can get up
2) be thankful it was your right knee, as it will not interfere with mounting
3) don't mention that it is sort of painful until the ride is over

I also particularly agree with the hay in the pockets, socks, etc.

(Also dog food in the pockets, going through the wash)

[scrapchick]

Originally Posted by singing tree

Here's one-
if you fall down - hard - on your knee cap (which I did) while carrying your saddle and bridle out to meet your friend coming to pick up your horse for a trail ride, you
1) don't look at the injury, as long as you can get up
2) be thankful it was your right knee, as it will not interfere with mounting
3) don't mention that it is sort of painful until the ride is over

I also particularly agree with the hay in the pockets, socks, etc.

(Also dog food in the pockets, going through the wash)

You forgot to mention how glad you were that the damage happened to your knee, not your saddle!

[singing tree]

So true, scrapchick. Had not thought about that!

[scrapchick]

I was in a hurry to get home from riding, so l left my chaps on but at the last minute decided a detour to Walmart was in order. Wore my chaps right on into the store without much thought. Got all kinds of silly looks, but I did score a compliment by a car full of youngsters (like early 20's). Made me laugh.

[Slim Pikkens]

Clean the barn then immediately head for the coffee shop. Doesn't matter if it's full, you'll soon have a booth all to yourself.

[Paminky]

Originally Posted by Deanna

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-When buying a house you are more interested in what the barn and property look like than the home itself.
-If you find hay in all your pockets fishing for your truck keys.
-You have hauled a bale of hay in the trunk of your car.

Did that this morning, had to take a bale of hay to my mares so down the road I went with a bale stuck in the trunk of my Toyota Echo.

I totally mortified my stepson a couple of years ago when hay was so hard to find. I was going along on the interstate when I saw two really nice bales of hay that someone had lost and hadn't broke open when they hit the ground. I pulled over and backed up to them, put one in the trunk and one in the back seat, they were really nice bales of timothy but it took forever to get all the hay out of the backseat, I don't even worry about the trunk anymore.

I call my Echo my farm truck, I stop at the feed mill on my way to work to get my feed and I have had over 800 lbs. loaded in it at once. I overheard two men talking one day about how they didn't see how it would hold it all. The guys at the loading dock know me well and will distribute the feed to the trunk, backseat and passenger seat to help even up the weight. I try and not get that much anymore since it still kind of made my car swim on the interstate going home.

[Horselady44]

all of that is so true...very cute thread

[Horse Show Mom]

I have done one worse( or better) you decide. I put the hay inside my mini-van and also on the roof rack.