What's your guilty secret down the yard?

Becca

I can't believe you haven't catalogued the contents of boxes with pictures on the front on laminates?!:eek:

Seriously how much did all the boxes cost!!!

Wow I don't have a guilty pleasure. For those of you with crushes- I'm jealous nothing better than a good crush, I'm a very happily married woman but enjoy a crush. Mine is the chap that works in the leisure centre where my daughter have swimming lessons his smile is so beautiful- swoons :o
 
OK, I'm voting for Becca to start a new TV program... I'm thinking a tack room version of The Hotel Inspector. It could be a hit of H&C TV!

I am easily pleased. I love a correctly hung up bridle and clean tack.
 
This seems to have turned into a 'Becca' appreciation post!

Becca, I will pay for your flight over here if you'd teach my slob of a daughter how to keep HER stuff tidy, never mind the yard! There's a whole caravan/tack room just waiting for your touch...

I too like a swept yard, clean tack (and cleaning it), perfect beds and a tidy tack room but I can't be obssessive about it because of said daughter! Every time I turn around there's dirty tack in the lounge, rugs abandoned everywhere, grooming kit dotted around the yard and the horses have the audacity to poo on my freshly swept concrete.

I'd be a gibbering wreck if I tried to stay on top of everything so, for my sanity, I've let things slide.

One thing I won't abide is dirty hocks while I'm out riding. I will even clean other horsey hocks if I think the rider won't do it themselves!
 
becca1305 said:
Organising! I relatively recently bought shelving and boxes for rugs, lotions and potions and bits and bobs, bandage holders, and the gridwall shelving used in shops to pop all my grooming kit, helmets and stuff on :o. I spent a happy entire day putting the shelving together and boxing all of my rugs up in logical order - by weight :p. My new premier equine rugs arrived today and so I spent a happy hour reorganising and then altering the whiteboard which shows what rugs are in what number box, it also has information about what rug at what temperature for indoor and outdoor rugs for each horse! very very guilty secret from most people as I keep the horses at home! :D. The horses also have colour coded buckets and another whiteboard listing their feeds for morning and evening because you never know if me AND mum might suddenly both me bedridden with some awful plague and god forbid dad would have to do the horses :p :D (not happened ever yet though!)

I have also just got my new horsebox delivered and have spent an hour or two organising buckets lotions and potions and kit in the exterior lockers and am in the process of ordering matching cutlery, crockery and other dining stuff and will then be able to take it into the horsebox and decide which cupboard whats going in.

*sigh* I do accept I have a slight obsessional problem :p :D
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This is ahem 1 corner of the tack room :o

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WHERE'S THE DARNED LIKE BUTTON !!!!!
 
I can't think one, I'm pretty relaxed about my slob like tendancies. However I will grass DH up because he is a secret tidier!

I guess mucking out again despite the staff having done it earlier is fairly normal, even the spirit level straight banks and edges, but he also weeds the yard (not just actualy weeds but grass growing in gaps in the paving etc), clears drain covers, removes stones from the field, rebuilds dry stone walls, and possibly worst of all, levels the school by hand with a fork while I am riding. :eek:
 
I too love a clean swept immaculate yard.

For pony's bed to be level and swept back, nice big straight banks - and yes I riddle her bed when I have time at weekends to get rid of every single teeny bit of poo or hay - her bedding is granular so goes through. My fellow liveries look at me with a mix of terror and awe (but secretly I know they want the perfect bed too!) LOL

My stable tools have to be cleaned before putting them away - hate it when others use them and put them back with poo balls stuck in the tines or bits of hay in the brush. Don't mind them using them, just wish they'd put them back in the same condition I left them in...

OCD, much, probably... :o
 
Kick bolts. When the horses have been turned out they all have to be 'open', obvioulsy when they're in they have to be 'closed'!
Even though I know all of the doors have been checked in an evening I will go around and check them all again!
Sweeping is another one - love it when my area looks nice & tidy!
Cows. Our yard is next to a dairy farm & I am becoming very fond of the cows! Even the ruddy great bull that escaped and camped out in the orchard is quite sweet really. :)
 
Mine is popping up to the yard when I've finished work and if the Wee Man is lying down, I like to sit next to him and scratch his wither and just spent some quality time with him.

His is trying to eat my boot/hair/coat whilst i do this! :)
 
My worst one is that I dont like most of the YOs horses. At all. They chew, poke, have no discipline or manners and irritate me like mad :o I love her old boy tho and would have him for hacking if I could afford it :)
I also love to organise haynets :o :confused:
 
thankyou catdragon & lotty :). Sorry for the apparent hijack OP but Im ever so grateful that people dont think Im totally bonkers :D

The tackroom is in need of another quick tidy again actually. mum doesnt put rugs back in their boxes- she claims she DOESNT KNOW WHERE THEY GO :eek: !! Theres a flipping whiteboard chart and numbered boxes !!!

NikCScott - they are catalogued on the whiteboard by box number but there wasnt enough room for pictures ;) heheh.

Ahh my mum was always lucky with me that she never had to tell me to tidy my room as a teenager! Hmm maybe this is a lucrative career path ;) pfft uni total waste of time my calling is definetely in Tackroom Organisation/Management :D

I do agree with some of the others too, I also like making up feeds, seeing the ponies all snuggly in their rugs for the night, and the satisfaction of creating a clean deep straw bed. Sweeping not so much but thats because our yard is a pain to do it in! but my definite fave is organising such a feel of contentment when everything is away in its place :p. like others have mentioned muck heap levelling- thats my mums obsession she has a method which means we can get huge amounts in :) the guy who empties it is always shocked, she gets peeved if I dont do it "properly" but still cant understand that I feel the same about her not putting rugs away !
 
Poo picking. I find it very relaxing and love the satisfied feel I get when I look back and see a clear field.

Organising, I re-arrange my shed and tack room every weekend. I have a trolley on wheels and the draws have to be organised into catergories :o

Tidying my straw up :o I won't leave any wasteage and it needs to be a neat pile. I will tidy it before I muck out then again after as I've taken some of the straw and made it messy again.
 
Poo picking and ensuring all kick bolts are shut! Have been known to ask the OH to turn the car round to go back just to make sure the horses are shut in even tho the logical part of me knows I've checked them about 20 million times! ;)
 
Wrapping up the lead ropes when they are not being used.
I have tendencies to do everyone's as well.
I hate when people just dump them on the hook, and then they dangle everywhere.
Would absolutely love becca's tack room. Think I may have to look into doing something similar! Just not quite so many.
 
becca1305 said:
Organising! I relatively recently bought shelving and boxes for rugs, lotions and potions and bits and bobs, bandage holders, and the gridwall shelving used in shops to pop all my grooming kit, helmets and stuff on :o. I spent a happy entire day putting the shelving together and boxing all of my rugs up in logical order - by weight :p. My new premier equine rugs arrived today and so I spent a happy hour reorganising and then altering the whiteboard which shows what rugs are in what number box, it also has information about what rug at what temperature for indoor and outdoor rugs for each horse! very very guilty secret from most people as I keep the horses at home! :D. The horses also have colour coded buckets and another whiteboard listing their feeds for morning and evening because you never know if me AND mum might suddenly both me bedridden with some awful plague and god forbid dad would have to do the horses :p :D (not happened ever yet though!)

I have also just got my new horsebox delivered and have spent an hour or two organising buckets lotions and potions and kit in the exterior lockers and am in the process of ordering matching cutlery, crockery and other dining stuff and will then be able to take it into the horsebox and decide which cupboard whats going in.

*sigh* I do accept I have a slight obsessional problem :p :D
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This is ahem 1 corner of the tack room :o

Ps apologise for the quality/size of pic!
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OMG ...This made me hoot ( in a nice way )
 
Becca, you are my organisational inspiration!

I actually love putting beds down, I will literally spend forever sweeping the entire bed to where I want it, then my horse comes in and kicks it all around within 5 seconds..
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I also love mixing feeds, so much lol :D
 
mine is quite a big, but friendly yard which is very social - we regularly have BBQs and bring wine up on fridays.

However, my biggest guilty secret is how much I love it when there is NO ONE there!! Jst me and my horses...I can go as fast or slow as I like...use the lunge pen or school without others waiting to go in. Heaven!!!
 
Becca I want your tack room!!! I share with 5 other horses and there's so much stuff everywhere none of it's in a logical place! Yiu must have spent a fortune on boxes though! I don't think i'd have the patience for putting the rugs away every morning and every evening when i'd changed them, though it would be nice to have them stored clean in the summer. I'd love the smaller boxes for little things like gloves,
Bits, boots etc though.

Another one for having the perfect bed. Every dirty speck has to be gone, then banks have to be nice and high and thick but square, as does the bed. Must be completely flat on top and a straight line at the front! My mum is always moaning at me for taking forever, especially as ours are on shavings!! The most annoying thing is the light switch being in one of my boxes - everyone else has to walk over my perfect bed so when i come down in the evenings the shavings have been kicked out
Of their nice straight line! :( so glad I can vent this here without being deemed utterly bizarre as thats what my family think when i get in a fluster over it!

I also like having the leadropes rolled up properly, night feed bowls taken out and washed when their finished eating, yard swept and tack cleaned and tied up after each use, travel boots and exercise boots paired up, and a nice square muck heap!!
 
Quite enjoy poo picking fields, used to do my ex girlfriends fields. I don't have a horse so have none to pick up now :(
I can't stand dry or dirty saddlery either, when I have a bridle or saddle in for repair I usually clean and feed it before I give it back to the owner (all part of the service:)
One woman refused her saddle as she didn't recognise it as it looked new she said, I had to convince her it was hers and not another customers!
 
sweeping, i can't stand even a stray bit of straw or hay in my area.
my straw bed has to have a perfect straight front and level bankings and the main part of the bed has to be level too.
being alone in the evening to spend time just with my horse and my dog.
 
Definitely anything to do with feeds! Even if all 4 of us go to the yard to do the horses i HAVE to make feeds!
I also spend hours researching different feeds and making diet plans for my horses and other peoples, working out feed ratios ect.
I also like collecting feed samples, i went to the southwest equine xmas fair last year and went round most stalls twice and came out with about 3 carrier bags bursting with feed samples.
Yeah.. ive got a problem.. so what :P
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