What do you sacrifice to have your horses?

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For me- I feel like sometimes I sacrice being with my 'non-horsey' friends, I sacrifice going clothes shopping and yearly holidays because I cant afford to have horses competing and holidays- I have also had the same car for the last 6 years because I cant afford to replace it- and mostly I have sacrificed living in my own place for them- so i moved home to save money- thats my biggest!

And most of the time its worth it
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Clothes, haircuts and going out mainly. My car is a few years old and I will run it until it drops. My OH also pays for holidays, but I am aware that we go away less often and to less exotic places that we would if I didn't have a horse.
 
I personally don't sacrifice alot for my horses - feel that life is too short! I don't have as many weekends away or maybe waste as much money on clothes but then I earn an ok salary .... don't know, hand on heart, whether I'd be dedicated to sacrifice everything for them!
 
Not sure sure I sacrifice that much te be honest. Sometimes in the winter i wish i could have a good lie in after a night out or maybe go to the pub after work for a couple of drinks but I guess that's not a biggie. Guess we are lucky we have our own land and stables so I don't have to fork out on livery and therefore just chip in for feed, bedding and entry fees etc.

I still do have to live at home though as cannot afford a mortgage on my own but then i don't think i can blame the horses for that, more I need a job that pays me better and i live in an area where housing is v expensive.

thankfully I loath shopping but to have to have at least one holiday abroad a year (thankyou visa card and Mr bank manager!! ha ha) You only live once after all!!!
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To be honest I would sacrifice 1 holiday a year but not a lot else.

I suppose I want to live a full and comfortable life and still be able to have a horse. I think I might be living in a dream world but I can try.
 
Well probably OH who sacrifices a lot as I don't mind spending any spare money/time at yard/horses
We don't go on hols as can't afford to and a/l is used up on away show dates that daughter wants to compete at anyway.We could probably get a bigger house if didn't have horses but then what would we do look at our nice walls in a bigger house!!Naaa stick with the ponys
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Clean and tidy nails! I still live at home (22!) but am going back to uni in sept so have to really, Oh yeah I sacraficed University tuition fees on a trailer LOL! (Not really a sacrafice as I benefit either way!)
 
I don't have holidays, my car is ancient, my clothes mainly come from charity shops and my house could do with quite a lot of work done on it, and I'm usually too tired for You Know What!. Other than that I don't sacrifice anything.
 
What's a holiday?
If I could afford to have one, I would have to pay almost as much again to get my horses, dog and cats looked after!
 
Probably the friends thing and free time - there's always something that needs doing AND I have help five days a week.

I sacrifice short notice weekends away too as it takes a while to organise the house an horse sitters. We are quite lucky in that finance isn't a big issue for us but then... we both work full time in v stressful jobs. I suppose it is my non horsey OH that suffers the most since we both work in the City but instead of nice Friday drinks in bars with friends followed by a relaxing dinner we come home to the country and paddle in mud.

And definitely my nails are sacrificed as I can't bear fake ones and mine just don't stand up to being used to try and rip open haylage bags!
 
Selling my car at the moment, can't afford both on my Part time wages! (buying a cheaper one!), don't have a bf, last one didn't realise I meant it when I said horse comes first! Still manage to go out, have hair cut and highlighted often enough. But I don't spend a fortune on clothes now and I can't have as nice a car as I'm used to! Need a OH to pay for it.....
 
I'm very fortunate that I don't have to sacrafice anything materialistic. Its time with OH that I miss out on and the restriction of time during the winter ie getting down the yard to do their dinner and rugs before it drops too cold.

Mind you when I am down at the yard hubby has 'his' time and saves the world on his PS3
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He does not mind at all the time I spend down there
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Two years ago my old Tb fell ill. He had severe probs with his legs. Luckily for me my two boys had flown the nest and so it was just my husband and I. We sold up, upped our mortgage by 20k and tried everything to save my old fella. We failed. BUT, we are very poor but very happy, our lives revolve around our pets, 2 dogs, 3 cats and 2 horses. We are indeed blessed. xx
 
My education, a social life outside of chatting politely to liveries and people at competitions, my physical intergrity, a good wage, holidays (and I mean that in the day-off sense as opposed to going away), a normal complexion (too much sand-blasting and being pelted with hail), nails, not smelling faintly of haylage for eternity. The best bit is that I don't even have my own at present.
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Yep, I love it.
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Time! And the extras like nice clothes, weekends away and the usual stuff.
I suppose the biggest sacrifice I have made is not having children. I know I couldn't afford the time and money to have kids but I couldn't get rid of the horse for the sake of a child!
 
Holidays, nice clothes, anything that i do buy gets mixed up with horsey clothes and start to smell, never regreted any of it and i dont care if i dont have those things, i love having horses!
 
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i sacrifice time spent with my OH
buying clothes and shoes! just try get things very cheap from george at asda
i rarely visit the hairdresser now, i always used to get it dyed and cut but no more, i dye it myself
my car is old but i will run it down to the ground as i cant afford a new one
nights out and meals out are not that frequent

but its all worth it, my horse means the earth to me, she is one in a million, even though my OH just does not get it
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I don't think I sacrifice anything for my pony - I love him and enjoy spending my time and money on him, most of my friends are horsey anyway and I have meet some of my closest friends through horses.

People who don't understand would say that I sacrifice money eg I am 35 and still renting and will be for the foreseeable future (though one of my horsey friends says she is quite jealous as although she owns her lovely flat - I as I rent can live near my horse and if he has to move I can too!

My parents would say relationships as it is hard to meet men when your time is spent in a very female dominated world and when you have something that takes up alot of your spare time they have to be very understanding - though I am on assisted DIY so I don't have to go to the yard every day and pony lives out most of the time so no mucking out. They also worry about how I would cope if something really bad happened to my pony.

Luckily I have a reasonably well paid job and have already traveled the world and consider a holiday to be anytime I do not spend at work so I do not need to go somewhere to have a break. I can still afford to do one holiday a year and this year am going away on a riding holiday to Italy with my RI and some girls from the yard.

I might see it differently it I was not on assisted DIY and had to go to the yard every day as then I would be sacrificing alot more.
 
Hmmm, I have to say I sacrifice time more than anything else
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I very rarely have a day off, which makes it hard going out with friends for long lunches, and makes me really question my hobby when I have to get up when I am seriously hung over
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I also sacrifice my nails... they are a complete mess, and my hands look like a 60 year old rather than a 25 year old
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Having read what everyone else sacrifices I am feeling incredibly lucky that I don't really have to give up much for my girlie. I am at uni but work 20 hours a week so my student loan pretty much subsidises me if I need money after paying for my mare, although in honesty I'm pretty sensible with my money now.
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Over the (30 gulp) years I've had horses, I've pretty much sacrificed everything to keep them. The list includes, one husband
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, nice homes, hairdos, makeup, nice nails & skin, non-horsey friends, loads & loads of money and probably my sanity. It's all been worth it
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as I've worked hard to keep them and now have a fantastic horsey husband, lovely home with stables and 4 neddies - soon to be 5 as have just put a deposit on another one
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