Dare you add it all up?

[katie123]

I once added it up, between £3500 and £4000 per year my mum didnt want to know lol

[ktk]

Erm, I did work it all out a few months ago. It comes to about £250 per month to keep all three That includes their livery, feet, standard vet fees and insurance, feed, wormers etc.

[gemma]

Hmm well basics (livery, feed, farrier, wormer, ins) comes to around £150 a month, so that's £1,800 a year.

I worked out that competing at endurance during the 2007 season cost around £1,000 - EGB annual membership fees, ride entries, diesel, camping/B&B.

Then the 4x4 costs about £150 a month to run (that's EXCLUDING going to events) - the Corsa I had previously cost about £100 so that's an additional £600 a year.

Then there's clothing, equipment, tack. Not adding that one up!!

Just as well I don't smoke or go out very often!

[xsamx]

Ive just started adding up for four of them on an average of 4 weeks..i got scared at over £700 and stopped!!

[suewhitmore]

The last time I did the accounts, it has cost £26K for 10 or 11 for the year, on our own land. And no competitions!

[SarahW]

I was looking through my blogsite and realised I have been wearing the same jumper for seven years (and it was originally my husband's). Shopping for clothes - what's that? Make-up??

[fin]

I'd die of fright if I even tried to work it out. I think JJ's supplements bill outruns our food bill by hundreds

[Ryan&Dizzy]

mine dont cost me too much bless them.

my 2 at uni cost me £15 a week each livery. so £120 a month. get through about a bag of chaff a month £8 ish a bag of speedy beet £8ish then dizzy is on youngstock mix £10, then both have feet trimmed every 5 weeks £40 each and i use about £30 hay and straw a month. not got a clue how much i spend on petrol £10 ish? so... i work that out at... £276 a month for two of them. but then of course Ryan needs a bloody second morgage to pay his vets bills! and niether of them are in work at that!

[iwillbuy]

i have two sets of books for my horses the one my husband sees and can,t believe all these people moaning about the cost of horses when mine only cost a tenner a week and the real one which i burn on the muckheap so he never sees it
p.s he never even knew we got family allowance and we have had three children

[zack]

I can't even begin to add it up, otherwise it will confirm that I can't afford them! I imagine that paying for the horses comes out of some seperate magical bank account, I'm just not sure who's paying the money in!

[sundance]

I have decided to really scare myself next year, 2008, and keep (well hidden) a record of all I spend with the hope that I will think before I buy anything! So I have stocked up on haylage today and am cursing that the vet/physio can't come untill Wednesday! I thought I may start a thread to be updated each month on here so we can compare expenses.

[suewhitmore]

Not exactly well hidden tho! A good idea, especially as the next three months are the absolute worst.

[iammizz]

£20 a week for stable/turnout
£8.00 a week haylidge
£10.00 pound every 2 weeks straw (he does have matting too)
£ 7.00 a week for feed and supps (broken down over about 6 weeks)
£15.00 every 7 weeks or so for feet.

Now i dont think thats bad at all and ben needs for nowt

[joto]

Sundance, thats a good idea re the thread AND stating tomorrow with detiling bills.
suewhitmore, what do you feed them? gold plated hay? LOL :-)

[joto]

Finn, open a supplement shop and get them wholesale, then you can sell stuff to all us lot cheap as well. hee-hee.