Where the fuck you store it though? A shitty car you can park anywhere, a horse is gonna take some space. Especially for us poor fucks where the temperature drops below freezing for part of the year. Car just maybe not gonna start today, a horse might not start ever again.
750 a year? Wtf is this retard smoking. Cost for land, hay storage, water, vet, and farrier. Human time cost to feed them twice a day, get rid of or spread the shit. Blanket, saddle, bridle. Youāre looking at a few thousand a year minus the time sink.
Yep. Once upon a time, you had to be very wealthy to own a car.
Now itās horses.
Cars are still the most significant expense in most peopleās lives after shelter and certainly the most significant in terms of cost per actual time used.
Iād say food is a bigger expense for many, depending on how much they drive and whether theyāre paying the car off.
If you include all groceries, so pet food, toiletries etc, Iād spend more on groceries than my car most years.
Eh, it probably wasnāt bad back when everyone had them. If you were a farmer, you already had pasture for your horses to graze on, and you could trade some food w/ the local vet for medical bills. Also, since you probably needed multiple, you probably bred them with your neighbors, making replacement cost really low.
Almost all of those problems are solved by your local park.
Vet costs can be reduced by the skillfull application of healing stones.
This article says 8 to 11k yearly. https://horserookie.com/average-horse-cost-by-state/
While cost of owning a car is between 3k and 9k yearly according to https://www.move.org/average-cost-owning-a-car/.
I would have thought that a horse would be much more expensive, like 10 times a car cost.
Interesting, I recall a colleague in UK mention that it was costing her up to 20k a year. That was her max but not always/everywhere - would have been almost 30k USD at the time, so it sounds considerably cheaper in US but obviously a lot more land available and affordable
cost of owning a car is between 3k and 9k yearly
Maybe if you drive a fancy new car, but an older, reliable car can be much cheaper. For example, I drive a Toyota Prius that Iāve had for 10 years, and I paid $10k for it (approximately, and cash, so no financing). Iāve driven about 100k miles, spent about $3k on repairs, and have spent about $500/year on insurance. So an estimate for total costs is:
- gas - $7.8k (~45mpg @ $3.5/gallon)
- insurance - $5k
- repairs - $3k
- depreciation - $7k (assuming $3k value if I sold)
- taxes and fees - $2k (~$100/year registration + emissions cost)
- regular maintenance - $500? (I change my own oil, so $20/oil change every 5k miles, plus spark plugs, headlights, etc)
- tires - $1200 (changed them twice for ~$500-600 each time)
Total cost over 10 years is $27000, or about $2.7k/year.
So that $3k/year low end figure is actually a little high for me, and I ended up rounding most of these things up. Iām guessing a cheap EV could come out even cheaper.
So if youāre cheap like me when it comes to cars, owning a horse could be about 10x the cost of a car.
He said to keep it alive, nit to actually care for it in any meaningful way.
I know itās a joke. If I was taking it seriously: I donāt want to spend several hours getting to a job thatās already say, an hourās commute. And then storing the horse at the job and then several hours back.
I remember growing up there was this Amish person who worked at one of the yokel gas stations. They would ride their horse to work and hitch it up for their shift, and then ride it home. Itās doable!
That horse must have been bored af tied up to the same spot all day, bet he didnāt have any shelter for inclement weather either.
Car shits smoke. Horse shits ā¦ well ā¦ Shit!!
Lmao $750 a year š