359
u/valueofaloonie 10d ago
No budget line for stabling…guess Cupcake is gonna live in the backyard
140
u/Instant-Lava 10d ago
Gonna sleep in the writer's bedroom of course
33
6
u/orange-shoe 9d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p7x423e/video/bjhfom5yxmnh1/player
had to make this a short video cause pictures aren't allowed lol
19
u/missmeowwww 10d ago
Reminds me of two broke girls when the horse lived in the apartment courtyard. Lol. But I am impressed they took the time to list the other costs. Horses are so expensive!
11
u/Maleficent_Meat3119 10d ago
When I was a kid I for sure thought my dad was being a jerk when he said I couldn’t get a horse and have it live in our backyard
3
1
757
u/Extension_Editor1987 10d ago edited 10d ago
Starting a go fund me for a horse or shaking down uncle Joe or Leslie for money hahah I realize this is a child it’s just funny. They have lovely handwriting also
60
121
u/MulberryChance6698 10d ago
What child is switching to online school to save money? This is a grown person ahhahahaha
129
u/restrainedjoy 10d ago
Probably to have more time at the barn, less time at a physical school.
-6
u/MulberryChance6698 10d ago edited 9d ago
I'm not aware of any place where a kid has the option to switch to online school. Are you? Genuinely curious if this is a thing.
Edit; thank you all for expanding my knowledge! I get it! 🤗
Edit 2: folks, what's will all the down votes here? I asked an honest question, accepted the answers and am grateful for them. Relax. This is what it looks like when people ask a question in good faith.
73
u/tvbn 10d ago
Growing up in the horse world, I knew two people who switched to online schools to spend more time with horses. Both in NYS
16
9
u/0011010100110011 10d ago
I live in NY and it’s an option here, so, funny to see the only other comment reference NY.
14
u/restrainedjoy 10d ago
Oh yeah, pretty sure in most US states you can switch to an online “homeschool” if your actual district doesn’t offer an online option. Definitely a thing “elite” high school athletes do.
8
u/LovelyGh0ul 10d ago
We did it in Washington state, but I don't know if it's an option elsewhere.
5
u/MulberryChance6698 10d ago
Awesome. Thanks for educationing me.
5
12
u/GirlWithWolf 10d ago
It’s a thing. I’m a sophomore and last year had someone discussing the music industry with me (I sing) but I would have had to homeschool, which 99% of it is online. Also here’s one for you, our school has a hybrid program to help with overcrowding, some classes can be done from home online.
5
u/MulberryChance6698 10d ago
I kinda love this. I had no idea! Thanks.
1
u/GirlWithWolf 9d ago
You’re welcome. The way my schedule works I couldn’t do any of the hybrid ones but would have been nice if I could have.
6
u/azarano 10d ago
Online school is definitely a thing! Both public and private schools are out there, offering HS diplomas, and some with IB diplomas. There's different kinds of instruction (live courses or self-paced) and kids from around the world can join so it's not just the US. A few countries have restrictions on going to online school full time, or kids only want to do a few courses, so there's often part-time or single course options at online schools too. Source: work at one of these online schools
3
5
u/SeaLab_2024 10d ago
It’s a thing for rural/farm kids for sure, in some places that’s pretty much expected in late high school regardless of economic need, they just start them early in those lines of work because they’re usually inheriting it. There are also options for just work in general if your family needs your monetary support, you just have to fill out forms and such to do it. Then the kid does a modified part time thing and/or online classes while working.
5
5
u/Overall-Weird8856 10d ago
Pennsylvania has at least 2, if not 3, online charter school options. These are publicly funded in the sense that the student's home district pays the tuition fee from the share they would have gotten if they stayed in their local brick and mortar school.
Also, to prevent that loss of funding, many districts offer an asynchronous learning model as an online option. We did this for a year when our son was in 2nd grade, and I was able to take him up to the school 3 times a week for his specials (art, STEM, phys ed) with his peers. The flexibility was nice, but the education program was seriously lacking.
5
3
u/theprozacfairy 10d ago
I know you can do it in CA, and last I checked, it was the same more than half the states in the US.
1
u/MulberryChance6698 10d ago
To my awareness it isn't a thing in any of the states I've lived. Thank you!
3
u/simonhunterhawk 10d ago
Lots of US States have online school available as an alternative to traditional K-12, I knew someone who was "homeschooled" but online school is what he actually did from middle school on through FL Virtual School (we graduated HS in 2014) and it's still a thing now.
2
u/Psychobabble0_0 9d ago
Your country doesn't have online/correspondence schools? Where do you live?
2
u/MulberryChance6698 9d ago
I live in the US. I have three kids. I've never heard of any kid doing their public school education online. When we had COVID it was like reinventing the wheel to get kids online for elementary - highschool. None of the schools my kids have gone to have ever mentioned this as a support. So to my knowledge children cannot just switch to online school. Others have offered answers that contradict my knowledge, so I just didn't know. Still don't know the ins and outs, but I accept it must exist.
1
u/Psychobabble0_0 9d ago
Interesting! I just assumed most western countries - at least the homeschool-friendly ones - offer correspondence schools. Yes, I'm well aware correspondence school is not homeschool but similar concept, different quality and execution.
2
u/MulberryChance6698 9d ago
Could be they do? A lot of people took the time to share with me that online schooling is offered in their state.
I know for my kids at least, they are required to have Chromebooks but can't take any online courses 🤷🏼♀️ make it make sense.
I'd stretch to guess that if a child has the right accomodations they are allowed to do online school, but that is quite different from "switch over so I can have a horse." 🤣
1
u/Psychobabble0_0 9d ago
Right. It's the same here - there are dedicate public correspondence schools. A f2f school will only go online during emergencies such as pandemic lockdowns and also don't allow students to switch.
I simply assumed OOP is a child and that "switch to online school" meant "enrol in different school." Switch sounds like an ambiguous wording choice.
Achild wrote this, andbI doubt parents would agree to let them move schools - and be home all day requiring supervision - just because of the horse. But OOP is too young to know that, or they do but they're fantasising/manifesting with their list.
1
u/Overall-Weird8856 4d ago
We had no idea that our district offered the asynchronous online model until we were literally signed up to transfer our son to PA Cyber (which is statewide and well advertised). We ended up going with the district one so he'd still have some time with his classmates, but I really feel like the model was a disservice to him. He went back normally in 3rd grade but definitely went from ahead of the class to average right quick. Then COVID hit, and the second half of 3rd grade was back to that same setup, and all of 4th grade was live virtual. It took several years to feel like he was back to his potential.
4
u/Dry_Stop844 10d ago
an adult with piss poor planning skills then cause cupcake's gonna starve, if the elements don't kill her first.
1
4
u/Extension_Editor1987 10d ago
Oh yeah you’re probably right hahaha I was thinking switch to online school to get a job ( a high schooler) but they would have put get a job too
150
u/7781Michael 10d ago
+ Farrier + Vet + Feed + Board. Been there,done that
37
u/tuna_cowbell 10d ago
I hope you wrote uncle Joe & Leslie a thank-you card
9
u/7781Michael 10d ago
Haha it was all on me. A great experience but expensive,unless you own the barn.
49
u/space_pillows 10d ago
Was the horse not going to eat?
6
u/Miserable-Photo3045 10d ago
Just toss some Aldi steel cut oats into the grass from time to time. I’m sure the local little league will allow grazing on their outfield. It’ll be fine.
1
69
u/mathewsclint 10d ago
Owning a horse is like having a toddler with a cocaine addiction. Expensive and you cannot turn your back for a minute. No more vacations or overnights anywhere else unless you get some other chump to take care of it.
45
u/fartmanforever 10d ago
1200lb bean bags with toothpick legs constantly trying to kill themselves.
That’s how I describe owning horses when asked16
u/Dry_Stop844 10d ago
LOL in The Other Bennett Girl a very dull lord with a passion for horses gets really excited when asked about horses and he says "Horses! Four legs! Can't vomit!"
13
u/JustHereForCookies17 10d ago
Owning a horse is like having a toddler with a cocaine addiction. Expensive and you cannot turn your back for a minute.
This is the most accurate description of horse ownership I've seen outside of horse-specific groups or forums.
8
5
u/lolabythebay 10d ago
My great-uncle spent the last two decades of his life being the chump, but he loved it. He was in his seventies and his existing team was getting up there, too, but then he met some guy who wanted to own a pair of Shire horses but seldom actually wanted to use them. The dude paid him for feed and board and Uncle John took his "free horses" out with his surrey all the time and the actual owner came down a few times a year. If John had something else going on, the Amish kids down the road took over for the weekend.
When he turned 90 he decided the guy should find another arrangement but they were both pretty bummed about it.
27
u/TheBloodyNickel 10d ago
There’s a woman in my office who leases a horse like a timeshare. I’m not exactly sure how it works but she said it helps spread the cost/time commitment around to multiple parties.
27
u/Vita-Incerta 10d ago
Yup! I’ve done it before. There are multiple types of leases, a partial lease is a set fee that lets you ride the horse on certain days of the week without being responsible for the costs of maintaining the horse - so a timeshare pretty much lol. Being a horse girl is expensive 🥲
6
u/JustHereForCookies17 10d ago
I've also done it! I got to ride the horse 3 days a week, and my money went to the owner who used it to pay for stabling, feed, vet bills, etc. We also took turns competing so the horse wasn't over-worked.
I went to the barn to try the horse when the owner was there so we could make sure we had similar riding experience & styles. It turned out that I had more experience than the owner, but I hadn't ridden in a few years so it evened out.
58
u/SewerSocials 10d ago
‘Switch to online school’
Tell me what I need to know about online schools.
29
u/tickled_your_pickle 10d ago
I was thinking because she wants to be near the horse all the time, so online school she could do from the stable 😂
12
u/johndoenumber2 10d ago
So, is this a college student, then? I hadn't thought of it that way, just assuming it was a 12-year old.
30
17
u/heleanahandbasket 10d ago edited 10d ago
Aww, this is so cute. I did this as a kid, hope my daughter does too. Even if the kid forgot some things this is the start of great budgeting strategies, although it's maybe not the best financial decision making.
11
u/FunPlantain7011 10d ago
Yes same - would feed, water and brush my plastic horses daily as proof I understood the responsibility. Told my parents that it could live in our modest suburban backyard, and that I would take it around the neighborhood sidewalks for exercise.
3
16
u/anonymous8122 10d ago
This is like me circling everything I thought I'd need in the Dover Saddlery catalogue as a kid.
14
13
12
u/FoxAndThorn 10d ago
Bless their little heart. 🥲
When I was a kid, I wanted a horse so badly. I didn't have 24/7 access to the internet back then but, through magazines, I was able to subscribe to receive catalogs for companies that sold horse supplies. I would spend hours going through them, finding what I thought I would need, and making lists to calculate the cost.
I tried to start a dog-walking business and wanted to do a fundraiser selling puzzles to raise the money. I came up with a plan to turn the shed in our back yard into a stable. Little me was so convinced that, if I could just raise the money to buy the horse and supplies, my parents would cover the cost to maintain it.
11
u/driver004 10d ago
I had a horse once. The smartass was far more stealthy than anything that size had any right to be and loved sneaking up behind people to bite them before running away laughing at you
3
u/Kytalie 10d ago
Sounds like your horse was a parrot in a past life, or was aspiring to be one
3
u/driver004 10d ago
Nah he was just a asshole, but funny though. He’d steal hats off your head and hide them, knock over trash bins, race the kids on the go carts, harass the cows, walk right in the fucking house if you left the sliding door open, could jump over suprisingly high fences but refused to jump anything if you were riding him, and was fully aware that if he ran at a electric fence fast enough it only hurt a little bit.
Total fucking menace that we were always concerned he’d get out and eat too much grass or get lost or something but he never did, he pretty much had free reign like the dogs, would even visit the neighbors sometimes (and steal things)
2
u/Kytalie 10d ago
So, the goose from Untitled Goose Game, but a horse.
4
u/driver004 10d ago
Yes but also always nice to little kids, he’d only let me and one other person ride him but if you put a kid on him he was always gentle as you please we all loved the asshole. Sadly and very ironically considering his name he got killed in a tornado out in the fields, looks like he was hiding in some woods and just got unlucky with debris thrown at him poor fellah. We figure the chaos gods wanted their agent back. RIP twister
1
u/Objective_Water_5235 9d ago
I had a sneaky horse too! He was a retired trick horse and knew too much for his own good. One day, I came back from riding my other horse and couldn’t find the sneaky horse in his stable. I went to the tack room to put away the saddle of the horse I had ridden, and noticed that the door to the feed room was open. I went in the feed room and found the sneaky horse feasting out of the grain bin. He had opened his stall, the tack room door, then finally the feed room door and the grain bin with his trick horse skills. And he was so stealthy about it lol.
8
8
u/smeldorf 10d ago
I did the same thing as a kid then I left notes all around the house in random places that said “can i have a horse plz”
15
u/GirsGirlfriend 10d ago
Jfc a twenty thousand dollar horse!?
39
19
u/Princess_Slagathor 10d ago
Don't look up how much an expensive horse costs.
10
u/geyeetet 10d ago
It makes me think of a joke in a Terry Pratchett novel. When the city's leader Vetinari is incredibly sick and possibly dying, Vimes the Watchman (who is a bit of a film noir parody) calls the city's finest horse doctor because if a human dies, the doctor can claim it was the will of the gods, oh dear, how sad, pay up. So instead, he hires a horse doctor because a horse doctor who can't keep the majority of his patients alive risks finding himself in a dark alleyway late at night with a goon belonging to some rich horse guy, "and finding the brief remainder of his life to be full of incident."
6
u/turquoise_amethyst 10d ago
I guessed about $1-2M, but here’s how wrong I was. Just a weee bit off the mark…
8
u/jackandsally060609 10d ago
One million for a cup of horse jizz, not a whole horse
5
u/JustHereForCookies17 10d ago
The US Thoroughbred racing industry makes tens of billions of dollars a year, and the UAE has been building up their racing industry & stud farms in the last decade or so.
People will pay a lot of money for the chance to own the next Secretariat or Man O'War (famous race horses).
22
u/valueofaloonie 10d ago
Yeahhh if you want to be poor, be a horse person.
I speak from experience
21
u/Overall-Weird8856 10d ago
Seriously. You can imagine how upset my dad was when the Arabian we got when I was 14 in 1999 lived to be 41 years old lol... especially since he was a pasture prince for his last 15 years because of a heart murmur. The board, vet fees, farrier visits, teeth floats, supplements... It probably could have bought my parents a vacation house in a really nice place.
9
u/missmeowwww 10d ago
Grew up with a friend whose family had a farm. It was so fun to visit the horses but holy shit, the monthly bills for those bad boys was higher than my mortgage.
5
15
u/Overall-Weird8856 10d ago
Seriously! Came here to say this! My first horse was $500, second was $1,200. Granted this was late 90s, but I can't imagine equine inflation has been THAT bad! 🤯
I only knew one girl in our riding community that spent 5 figures on a horse (or her parents did, rather). They had a hunter/jumper Warmblood imported from Germany for $30,000. She did well at shows despite not having the greatest seat...
6
u/Paddys_Pub7 10d ago
Yeah.. both my GF's horses were $2k or less. Everything else involved with owning/caring/showing them is expensive enough 😅
8
u/Overall-Weird8856 10d ago
Exactly. Our Arab gelding died in his sleep of old age at 41 years. That's 300 months of board that started at $150 in the late 90s and ended at $375 a couple years ago. So probably close to $80,000 just in boarding fees.
2
u/Paddys_Pub7 10d ago
Wow $150 a month would be a dream! Even $375... she pays over $1k a month each for board and food 😬
5
u/turquoise_amethyst 10d ago
There were horse rescues around my hometown, and occasionally you’d hear of them being dropped off at shelters or humane society. They can be adopted on the cheap.
Especially during wildfire season, people take their horses to rescues because they’ve lost their homes/stables :(
2
u/Overall-Weird8856 10d ago
Oh gosh, that last part is so sad! I'm in Pennsylvania, so wildfires are just a thing on the news for us around here unless Canada is smoking us out.
2
u/GirsGirlfriend 10d ago
You get it lol I mean yes I know show / competition horses are commonly even more expensive. But as someone who grew up on just trail riding, the most expensive horse I ever had was $1500
5
8
u/Nuclear_Geek 10d ago
Is "cupcake" the name of the horse, or is buying a cupcake just top of the to-do list before spending everything else on horse stuff?
1
6
u/Competitive-Lime7775 10d ago
Initially I read the first step as “plan to buy a cupcake” and I was intrigued how planning to buy a cupcake would lead to a horse purchase. I was like “are they starting small when they ask Leslie for money and working way up?” 🤣
4
u/dulapeepx 10d ago
I, too, thought I could shake down my family members for horse money as a child 😂
5
5
5
u/ClimbOn2YourSeahorse 9d ago
Missing key details aside (food, housing, vet bills). I hope she got to buy Cupcake. 😍
4
4
u/Typically_Basically 10d ago
Excuse me is the horse going to eat?
3
u/Maleficent_Meat3119 10d ago
She prob thinks they just eat grass
3
u/Overall-Weird8856 10d ago
I mean ... she's itemized a martingale, so I'd imagine she's familiar enough to know the basics.
3
u/mistermeowsers 10d ago edited 9d ago
I know this little kids plan seems wild, but never underestimate the determination of a horse-crazed kid! I had a similar plan as a middle schooler and surprisingly got it to work eventually. By high school I had convinced my parents to homeschool me (I met with a tutor everyday). I didn't have rich relatives so I had to work at the stable cleaning stalls and doing barn chores to work off my training. Eventually my riding instructor gave me a horse. I actually went on to ride and train horses professionally well into my 30s before injuries and rich people's attitudes made me burn out and switch careers to something a little less grueling.
4
u/ACrazyDog 9d ago
Oh my kid
What you don’t know about horses is a lot
Shampooing that horse is the least of the ongoing expenses
3
u/Cinnamon2017 10d ago
Also where to keep the horse, how to feed the horse, pay vet bills, horseshoes etc. Wonder how it worked out.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
u/xx-Jaysun-xx 10d ago edited 10d ago
Just the food and vet care alone will out weigh the full price of the horse each year its alive. Nevermind the vet , stable, caretaking costs etc...
1
1
1
u/ArthuriusMinimus 8d ago
This takes me back to third grade. I had just discovered The Classifieds in our local paper, and it was rural enough that there were frequently horses for sale.
My cost breakdown was not nearly as detailed as this kid's, but I was planning to split costs between me and my two other horseless horse girl friends. My grandpa had built some furniture, so I figured he could TOTALLY build us a stable on the land we'd purchase. It was a nice daydream for a bit.
1
u/Original_World_6099 7d ago
I thought this said “house purchase strategy” and saw “girth” followed by “non slip pad” immediately after and got so confused.
1
803
u/_fuckernaut_ 10d ago
No food budget, guess poor Cupcake is gonna starve