What products /equipment do you still use from your childhood?

[nikicb]

Today I was using up some Bloom shampoo that I had found at the bottom of a trunk I used to have when my old girl was in livery. Just the smell of it reminds me of when I had my first pony at 13. I also still find the Belvoir bar saddle soap far better than anything else that has been brought out since.

What products do you still like to use which you used way back when?

 

[Auslander]

Stockholm Tar and vegetable oil warmed up and mixed to make hoof oil.

and another Belvoir saddle soap-er!!

 

[mirage]

I'm still using a curry comb from my first pony when I was 10-back in 1978.

 

[Madam Min]

I still wear a pair of Loveson jods which I won in trolley dash round Robbies when I was 11! That was in 1993!

 

[lara b]

My caldene tweed jacket from when I was a teenager! Lovely condition and still just fits! Plus the stock pin from the same time

 

[DressageCob]

I use the same crop my mum bought me for my first ever riding lesson, 17 years ago

 

[alwaysbroke]

My show jacket and and hunt coat from when I was a teenager, also a pair of hand made buffalo stirrup leathers and leather head collar, they are all over 30 yrs old, ah also a pair of breeches that I can still get into

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

I've still got my old velvet hunting cap: it took me all the way through Pony Club and all the lovely miles I hacked with my old pony, bless him.

I'd wear it all day and it was as comfy at the end of the day as it was when I'd put it on. A lovely little hat, but unfortunately not up to standard for the current requirements.

It still fits me now, like a glove - better than any hat I've ever had since TBH; and as soon as I put it on, all the lovely memories of those times come flooding back.

 

[The mad TB]

I'm 15 so I don't think I count but I use my mums old grooming kit and tail bandages, they're amazing and nothing gives a shine like the body brush!

 

[RockinRudolph]

I still have a dandy brush from my first grooming kit - it must be about 25years old!

 

[Littlelegs]

Quite a few as I still have the pony too from when I was 10 (31 now). Loads of tack. Still have her clacky westropp over reach boots, don't use them but if you put them on she thinks she's going jumping. Saving them for when its time to go. A thin cotton tail bandage I still use & fleece stable bandages. Heavy duty toolbox for grooming kit. Benzyl benzoate. Black jumping whip which was for comps only. A pair of the old fashioned travel boots which only covered the cannon bones. Now in use on daughters pony as full covering travel boots.
Tons of stuff like headcollars, girths, numnahs & some of the first modern rugs.
Use cornucresine & Stockholm tar too. Loads of old saddlesoap. And found a tin bottle of hoof oil which must be over 15yrs old. Old tub of chalk powder from when her markings hadn't blended in with the grey, used it for ponies daughters taken to shows. On cleaning my first aid stuff out a year or so ago I found various dressings & wound powder with price stickers on, think the wound powder was about 50p, maybe less.

 

[LynH]

I'm still using my first dressage saddle I got 26 years ago and some stable bandages that are 30 years old which shavings do not stick to unlike fleece ones. I also have the odd brush and hoof pick with my first pony's name on them that go back 30+ years :0)