What is it about horses that make us lose our common sense?

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HaffiesRock

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By this I mean, why did I spend a small fortune on matching buckets and haynets for my pony's new stable when she has perfectly good unmatching ones?
She couldnt care less what colour they are but im obsessed!
 
I had to stop myself from buying colour co ordinated padded bridle and halter for new pony. They are sitting in an online shopping basket. It's only a matter of time I know !
 
My mum despairs of me! She could not understand why, when my mares leadrope clip broke, I had to go and buy one that matched the headcollar rather than just use some skanky old one that had been left in our tack shed.

Conversation went like this..

"but this one is perfectly fine"
"but it doesn't match"
"but it's fine!!"
"BUT IT DOESN'T MATCH!"
 
Ooohhh...can I have the skanky old lead rope please? Mine's gone walkies again!
I keep wanting to buy pink things for Hippo to match her headollar - always end up with blue stuff instead though, so she has mostly matchy-matchy, except for her glaringly pink head collar! I tried replacing it with a blue one but it got borrowed and has yet to be returned, much to Hippo's relief...
 
My husband buys his sunglasses to match the car, he has one pair for each vehicle.

Nothing of mine matches (except my underwear because I have OCD about that) most lead lines are PINK because they cost $1 in the bi-annual sale. I don't have a single pink halter :(

Buckets again are whatever colour is on sale - pinks, orange, greens, blues, yellow, purple, red, black. I don't have two the same colour.

Basically, as long as an item does the job intended, I have sadly reached the age where I no longer care what anyone else thinks. :)
 
I couldn't care less whether things matched. However all my stuff is pink. Everything. I don't even like pink, it just happens to always be the last colour on the shelf. I have a ginger horse so it's colour clash central
 
hi, i'm not matchy matchy at all i by what i need and use what i have. i'm a boy and even have a couple of pink brushed just because someone has given them to me, who cares about the colour!
 
The thing with matchy matchy is that as soon as I get sorted with one colour, another colour takes my fancy!

ATM he has pink water bucket with smaller pink ones for shows.

He hates them.

I think they make him look like a princess ;)
 
Its very sad isn't it, but I don't care :O) For myself, its anything goes. Yesterday I came to work in a green shirt, black trousers and red shoes with purple nail varnish. I looked a right tit but Betty's stable looked immaculate!

Same with my house really. Bit of mess, hey ho, mess in my tack room... NO chance. Car? Looks and smells like a stable, stable... Spotless!

Ha ha
 
I have 5 horses so they all have there own colours......

Purple/pink
Red
Blue(navy)
Green
The new pony has yet to like a colour bit im thinking baby blue

It's easier that way as there grooming kit, feed buckets, headcollors that horses colour
 
I think it's an age thing................... daughters want matching things. When you get older you try to buy ahead of time, like winter rugs in the summer sale, fly rugs in winter sale & buckets etc at a builders merchant because they are sturdier & cheaper. Do I care that my buckets are only either black or yellow? Nope certainly don't, water tastes the same, horses don't care & I am happy because they came at the right money. ;)
 
What age does the caring stop? My bank balance cannot wait!

Her rugs are all OK so I wont be replacing them, I am not THAT silly :p but when the time comes...
 
I was at a show with my Mum, one of the stands were selling good quality turnout rugs very cgeap, but they were RED. I said to my Mum, I can't have a Red rug on a Chestnut. She said - the horse won't care what colour rugh it wears !

I can't help it. Chestnut's can't wear Red rugs...
 
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