For Christmas, Lily got some money that we told her she could use along with a coupon from our local (one county over) tack shop, which I was expecting to receive in January. It arrived. We went shopping. She also took the money she won in a piano competition. This was a power shopping trip, and I meant to take my camera.
I wasn't feeling well (vertigo, I think) so I'm glad they had chairs, because time doesn't fly when you are in a tack shop with a girl with money and dreams.
She tried on every pair of breeches in their sale room in the back. She wanted white ones for dressage, and there were very few. One of the most helpful sales people said, "We can't keep them clean. We keep them in the back." And low and behold, they had her size. Good deal, too.
Lily also got a schooling helmet (Troxel) for $20, an affordable show helmet, a show coat (with my 20 percent off coupon), some gloves to replace the ones she has that her fingers poke through, and a really cool saddle pad that has waterproof pouches to carry stuff. Because you never know what stuff you might need to carry.
No wonder the room kept spinning.
She left with $1.98. And a great big smile that I think will last for several days. Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy the accessories for a horse, which, when you are 12, equals happiness.
I have to admit that horse accessories at 60 are happiness, too. Tack stores and feed stores with tack are pretty wonderful.
Posted by: Molly | January 03, 2008 at 01:09 PM
Horse accessories at any age are happiness! When I have money and I'm in a tack store...watch out!
Mom and I once went in for a girth extender. We came out with a new saddle pad, a new bridle, and some grooming materials...
And no girth extender.
Posted by: Haley | January 03, 2008 at 02:37 PM