Please can anyone share some brill ideas on how to raise money to buy a pony, I have a job but only saves £5 a week and Im looking for some extra dosh.
I had a paper round which paid for my pony weekly. I am lucky to be sharing a pony, as my sister pays half. We both had £300 in our life savings and we bought a pony with that. I then got a job which paid £30 a week which allowed me to buy good gear for him.
I had a horse share once (which meant i paid half for everything and rode the horse 3x a week) and it cost me more than my own horse does! ok so i had to give out all the moeny for my own hrose but the upkeep is half the price of my old share horse!
I dont know how old you are but weekend jobs or soemthing are your aim. do as much as you can...and make sure that when you have enough money for a horse keep saving up some. I saved up the money for my own horse and because i worked so hard my dad gave a contribution, but i made sure that once i had the money i saved up more to pay for the upkeep and tack for the horse for a year. Then bless my auntie i got a wad of money for my 21st which will keep my horse going for another year!
do you actually get paid working at a riding school or do you just get free lessons in return! ?
cutting people's grass (summer only !)
washing cars
put an ad in local shop saying you are willing to do odd jobs, with an hourly rate ?
another summer one - grow vegetables and sell them at the road side ? (assuming you can persuade your folks to spare some garden !) (or do they have allotments in Findhorn ?).
offer to do people's stable chores for them for cash ? e.g. when I went on holiday for a week, someone did my mucking out for me everyday (the feeding etc is covered in the livery cost). If you do holiday cover like this, it can involve being paid to ride ! For example, mucking out costs about £2 a day (for about 20 mins work), but to have your horse mucked out, groomed is twice that, and including riding is about £7.50. Its not a great hourly rate, but you are getting to work with horses !
Baby sitting is really easy if the kids are asleep!
but beware - the kids next door really like me since I started babysitting them, and now they wont leave me alone!
I'll never have a horse until I've grown up and left home, because livery is much too expensive here in London, and the stables are too far away
I've just accepted I'm not going to get a horse - but I'm saving for the future.
It'll make having a horse all the more fun wwhen I get one!
When I was 11 this is how I saved up for my pony.. pretty simple really and I made heaps out of it!!
Go to garage sales, (yard sales) jumble sales whatever, buy things which are tidy cheaply.. and sell them on for a profit. Voila! In no time at all you will have quite a bit of money in your hands.. Its amazing what you can find for practically nothing.
This just proves.. "One mans junk is another mans treasure"
Emma,
Your'e as bad as me. I do practically the same thing, except with horse gear and Violins. Go to auctions, garage sales, second hand stores and learn to haggle.
Develop an eye for any faults, remember them and use them to get that price down.
2. Pet-sitting( Like feeding peoples pets sometimes you can even pet-sit horses I've petsitted horses before and it's easy)
3. If your good on the computer you can make stainoary and greeting cards. I am doing that and I've made a lot of money.
4. Make horse treats and sell them at your riding stable.
5.Be a mothers helper.
My two fave things to do is make horse treats and sell them and Baby-sit kids. If you like playing with little kids and whatcing them this would be a excelent job.
Good luck!!!!!
-Cowgirl503
Proud owner of Dakota
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In riding horses we borrow freedom
What ever you say 'Don't say Never' It took me 30 odd years to realise my dream and don't think that every cheap horse is a nutter. Rhi may have her little down falls (can be nervous but only slightly) but underneath she is a gem and she only cost me £290. Before this I started out on Part loan and full loan. Look through the papers and see if anyone wants help with their pony or horse. You may find they do not need the part cost but justa nominal fee e.g When I took Copper on I only paid for a bag of feed a month.
Originally posted by Emma_G_NZ
Go to garage sales, (yard sales) jumble sales whatever, buy things which are tidy cheaply.. and sell them on for a profit. Voila!
I like it !! That's the sort of enterprising spirit that makes millionaires
Although having your own horse is nice, sometimes it's better to have several!
Clarification: All of my horses are either blind, babies, or not suited to my immediate needs (I am schooling for eventing at this time). Therefore, my desire to excel in my discipline of choice led me to request a position at a local stable. There, I have become a working student for my trainer. In exchange for work (I basically muck stalls, pick/water the arena, scrub buckets, and prepare horses for lessons 5 days a week), I am free to ride any horse at her barn (from the 4yo to her 2nd level dressage horse) in lessons or on my own at no cost. In fact, part of my job is working her younger horses as she is currently trying to promote her two dressage horses and has little time.
The only costs I have to take care of are entry fees into shows (where I also get free schooling) and trailer fees (which don't apply if she takes a horse as well).
I am doing what I want to do for the rest of my life: riding & showing other people's horses. So, in the end, even if I didn't have any of my own personal horses, it would still seem as if I had 10 others of my own. And it's not like I don't take care of them as I work so much out there NOT riding (like, helping with farrier & vet care and such). And I have plenty to fall back on when one gets sick or lame or such.
It's not quite the same as owning, but caring for and training another's horse(s) is very rewarding. You learn a TON more from riding several horses as opposed to riding the same one all the time.
A really good way to earn money is to put up ads for odd jobs (to do w horses of course!) for instance, you could offer your sevices for mucking out a stall, or feeding a horse, or taking care of a horse whilst the owner is gone. Or longing a horse, turning it out, cleaning tack, cleaning rugs, cleaning boots, grooming horses, bathing horses (one of my friends used to do a wash day thing where she'd put up an add and she'd give peoples' horses' baths for a fee) anything!
I work 8 hours on the weekend at a local farm shop and baby sit aswell as saving up my dinner money and allowance which gives me 120 quid a month which is good!!! Not so good now though because i have to save for christams but i'm getting my horse in 6 months!!!! yay!!!!!
As someone said, a paper round is a good idea. It's better not to go for the free ones, as they don't pay much, and you get better money if you deal with the company direct and not go through a newsagent.
How about dog walking?! Fun and you could earn a fair bit. Just print out some flyers on your computer and post them, but be sure to take someone with you to meet any prospective customers, for safety's sake.
Good luck.
PS I have a horse on horse share and it's great. Fortunately his other rider hardly rides him and I have him 99.9% of the time!
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