And it helps to have a step-son who is the sales manager at the local Dodge
dealership ...networking and friends are a good thing for
getting things done without spending a ton. I got my stall for Holly -
portable panel with a roof - from a neighbor who had sold her horses and I'd
seen it standing in the empty pasture...go ask! Ebay is pretty good for
finding some bargains...and if they turn out not to work so well for you you can
always relist them - which I've done and actually made money on my saddles I've
bought and sold there (couple of hundred between 3 saddles, but the total I got
back on them all was enough to make a huge dent in the new saddle I bought
recently). I?m wanting some of that $1.25 a bale in the field hay somebody
mentioned!! It's $3.00 a bale here, maybe 2.50 if you get lucky and buying
it at the feed store it's $6.75 a bale - NOT! I got lucky and found a guy that
will deliver and stack his nice coastal for $3.50 a bale. I have a good
friend who is a vet and she goes for continuing ed classes at Purina - woohoo,
she brings me coupons for free bags of Ultium...that works, too! Network,
network,
>>I solved that--moved to a place where there is no
access to cable... ;-)
We have a hill that even blocks the three major
networks on antennae.
I may have sounded as if "rich" people were
somehow silly or foolish in my post. That's not my attitude at all. I'm happy
for everyone who has money to spend. More power to them. I could have more if
I wanted to work harder but am such a slug that I prefer to find ways to cut
corners instead of figuring out ways to be more successful. I didn't take a
full time job for 10 years while my girls were small and we lived practically
on air (but I still competed with well cared for horses). When I took a full
time teaching job I felt absolutely filthy rich and really enjoyed loosening
up a bit on the pocketbook. Josie still apologizes when she says she needs
basketball shoes or something and it feels good to say, "No problem, no big
deal". My post was just for a 20 year old who is probably in the shape I was
in at 20. It's kinda fun to rough it when you start out, but I'd hate to turn
back time.
I will say that I try to be fair to the family. We *do* have
a house, and six acres with barn & field, access to trails, etc. We have
it because we had priorities and that was one of them. If someone else would
rather have more horses or a bigger rig that's their choice, more power to
them. I can assure you that if I had *plenty* of money sitting in the bank I'd
just pick out the truck & trailer that I wanted and be happy for the sales
guy that made a commission.
The great thing about endurance is that
you have people pulling up in rusty old 2 horse trailers who are contenders,
and you have people in zillion dollar rigs who never make them feel bad about
what they're driving. I don't know any other horse sport where everybody
accepts each other's financial differences in class so casually.
:-)
Angie
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...networking and friends are a good thing for
getting things done without spending a ton. I got my stall for Holly -
portable panel with a roof - from a neighbor who had sold her horses and I'd
seen it standing in the empty pasture...go ask! Ebay is pretty good for
finding some bargains...and if they turn out not to work so well for you you can
always relist them - which I've done and actually made money on my saddles I've
bought and sold there (couple of hundred between 3 saddles, but the total I got
back on them all was enough to make a huge dent in the new saddle I bought
recently). I?m wanting some of that $1.25 a bale in the field hay somebody
mentioned!! It's $3.00 a bale here, maybe 2.50 if you get lucky and buying
it at the feed store it's $6.75 a bale - NOT! I got lucky and found a guy that
will deliver and stack his nice coastal for $3.50 a bale. I have a good
friend who is a vet and she goes for continuing ed classes at Purina - woohoo,
she brings me coupons for free bags of Ultium...that works, too! Network,
network,