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I need to clear out the office because the ceiling has fallen in. I know it is time to throw away my toy horses from late sixties, rosettes from early seventies and my two saddles from 1978 and 1984, but it is so hard to let go!!!!
What stuff can you not throw out and how old is it?
 
I have a rubber bucket that was the first thing I bought for my pony when i was 9 years old, I am now 53 and still using it for my horses and it's known as Brackens bucket.
 
I am not going to be any help at all :D

Don't throw away your toy horses - if you absolutely have to - give them away *sob* to a good home or if ruthless *sob* sell them on Ebay for loadsa money.

Re the rosettes. It is actually illegal to throw rosettes away :D

Saddles - be brave and let them go (again to Ebay *rubs hands together*).

I have ALL my rosettes and will never let them go. I would sell the TV first.

I have a Champion the Wonder Horse model and he is in a stable rug and underblanket with matchy matchy bandages (from 1970 :eek:) all made from an old blue handkerchief.
 
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I bought tatty, faded 40 year old rosettes 3500 miles to a different continent when I emigrated, and my favourite newmarket quarter sheet which I haven't used since I've been here. I did sell most of my other stuff, most of which I have never needed to replace, but I kept a few bits and bobs that I couldn't bear to part with, my myler LS combi for one, heaven knows why, I wouldn't dream of using it on one of my horses here.

I am never going to hunt again - sob, but have all my kit, and my gorgeous boots, and a 80 year old hunting whip too. None of that is going anywhere, and really, what a waste of expensive gear but what the heck! Nostalgia.

I quite happily sold/gave away/dumped 95% of my household contents and clothes before I moved though:D
 
Oh RR my champion wonder horse is buired(sp) in the garden were i grew up because i made him a turnout rug but that night there was a storm and a great pile of bricks fell on him.
 
hobo said:
Oh RR my champion wonder horse is buired(sp) in the garden were i grew up because i made him a turnout rug but that night there was a storm and a great pile of bricks fell on him.
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Although I am truly sorry for your loss I just laughed out loud at that and my hubby thought I was laughing at something he said!
 
hobo said:
I need to clear out the office because the ceiling has fallen in. I know it is time to throw away my toy horses from late sixties, rosettes from early seventies and my two saddles from 1978 and 1984, but it is so hard to let go!!!!
What stuff can you not throw out and how old is it?
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Any stuff which makes you write a post like this cannot be thrown out.

Simples! :D

I can't (and WON'T) throw out my rosettes from 1972 for Fancy Dress on Inky. I can't throw out my toy horses and their show jumps. The fact that I barely look at them for years together isn't the point.

The point is: I know they're there.
 
OMG :eek:
What a terrible end for poor Champion :eek:

*starts to sing theme tune*

"Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly...
until the bricks fell on him"

I am completely sober BTW :cool:
 
RebelRebel said:
OMG :eek:
What a terrible end for poor Champion :eek:

*starts to sing theme tune*

"Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly...
until the bricks fell on him"

I am completely sober BTW :cool:
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*snorts wine onto pooter screen*

Ok - we'll believe you....

Red, anyone?
 
We have :- The saddle from our first horse (bought 36 years ago! :eek:)
The driving harness from a 12.2 pony who died 20 years ago
Every rosette
Every bridle from every horse we have ever had
Every bit from every horse (somewhere!)
And we still call Poppy's stable jus that, although three horses have lived in it since she did! :D
I agree it is probably illegal to get rid of any of it :D
 
I agree with the others you shouldn't throw any of it away.

Ok if you really need the room and the saddles are really sentimental then maybe they could go but not the others no way!!
 
I have two old buckets from my first pony - so many modern ones split at the first sign of frost - I wish that I had ten more left! They even have his name written on them in nailvarnish from my first pc camp - and that survived 25 years of all weather - modern day nail varnish doesn't even last a night! I also have all my old rosettes - and as someone said, the single tier ones seemed better!

I can let you throw out the old saddles, and perhaps Champion could be rehomed - never liked him as much as Black Beauty and All White Horses...
 
I actually sorted through all my toys months ago, was all ready to sell them... i've not done yet though. But they have all had a good groom haha. All 38 of them!

I will join you on a Kim and Aggie special, busting our ceiling high clutter in 5 years time (so that we can open the doors again!) :D I've still got a bag of about 20 rosettes somewhere too, even though i've not been in a show for over 10 years...
 
My mum threw all my My Little Ponies away just because I happened to be in a different country:eek: This happened more than five years ago and I am still traumatised:(
 
Nooo dont throw them out....if you really need the space then i would sell the saddles on ebay...but keep the rest.

I recently found all my old Jill, Jinny, saddle club and caroline akril books when i went back to my parents.....it made me sooo happy, i started reading the Jinny series but realised I was missing some of the later ones....so have been madly trying to find them- with matching covers to mine ofcourse- on amazon and ebay! Looks like i can get hold of old library editions, but not any in pristine condition. booo... i keep thinking 'oh its okay, if i have kids they can read them- its a good education!' ......no doubt i'll have a ballet loving girl or a moster truck loving boy:eek:..if i do ever have any!
 
oh rebelrebel your post had me crying lol.
Never get rid of my anne sewells black beauty book bought for me when 10 (im 47)- falling to bits and read to my daughter countless times when she was little - and yes I always cry when ginger dies. 1 of my all time fav books
I will never part with my baby saddle - made to measure with brass plaque on back with her name delivered 2 weeks before told her sight was going - never ever part with that as its my babys :)
 
So glad you are keeping everything, it would have been a mortal sin to have thrown any of it away, but how you could have even contemplated throwing away those rosettes is beyond me :D

I've still got every rosette I've ever won and even my 89 year old mum has every one she won (some are amazing, like from the White City Show and she even has a Horse & Hound medal! (Wonder what they were award for?!). I'm glad she kept them all

I still have the show saddle for my chestnut in my siggy who died about 10 years ago. Don't suppose it will ever fit another horse I will ever own but it has to be kept :) Also every bit and bridle part.... In fact pretty much EVERYTHING gets kept (oh dear I sound like a hoarding nutter! :D )
 
I confess to all of the above and rugs are my worst keeps. I haven't parted with a thing which belonged to Polly - and I don't think I ever will. It's the memories so strongly attached to these horsey chattels which forse us to hang onto what may seem bizarre keepsakes. I also have a bucket which is almost 30 years old!
 
Enfys said:
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I bought tatty, faded 40 year old rosettes 3500 miles to a different continent when I emigrated, and my favourite newmarket quarter sheet which I haven't used since I've been here. I did sell most of my other stuff, most of which I have never needed to replace, but I kept a few bits and bobs that I couldn't bear to part with, my myler LS combi for one, heaven knows why, I wouldn't dream of using it on one of my horses here.

I am never going to hunt again - sob, but have all my kit, and my gorgeous boots, and a 80 year old hunting whip too. None of that is going anywhere, and really, what a waste of expensive gear but what the heck! Nostalgia.

I quite happily sold/gave away/dumped 95% of my household contents and clothes before I moved though:D
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Thank goodness you wrote this as I also brought over all my tack, rosettes and two suitcases full of pony books!! :/

Now taking it all back again :0 plus 2 extra saddles numerous bridles and other stuff. OH refuses to let me bring home jump stands though :(

Not long now :)
 
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