Well, my wife talked me into buying a horse 8 years ago, with the rationale
that you can probably get a good horse for between $750 to $1500 and it's
about $150 per month.
After getting into it, it turns out that in order to have a decent horse
(for what she wanted to do with it), you're looking at $3000 to $5000, and
boarding it costs anywhere from $650 to $950 per month on an ongoing basis,
and that doesn't include vet bills, which ain't cheap, but are continuously
necessary, everything from preventative shots to fixing injuries, nor
"accessories" (gear).
I think the MG is a pretty good deal. Once you get the money into it, you
get to a point where it just gives back, and it doesn't cost you a mortgage
every month in order to keep it.
The horses are long gone - we only did that for a couple of years - but the
MG hopefully will be around for a long, long time. And having dumped bux
on the horses for her, I don't feel too bad about investing them in the MG
instead. And although it may stall, at least you don't have to shovel out
the stall.
- Tab
'78B, currently in surgery for the winter
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