Being organized

A friend of mine at the barn has quite the setup in her feed & tack room. Her way of doing things is right up my alley. She goes to the $1 store a lot and is always finding things to make life easier, things run smoothly and she's able to do things quickly and efficiently.

She graciously allowed me to take the pic's and show part of her tack collection- her saddle pads. Dressage pads on the left, all purpose in the middle, Navajo pads on the right and even those are organized by color.... Lol

Her English pads have white hangers and western pads have black. Hangers come in packs of 7 at the $1 store. They also have these clips that come in packs of 6- 3 blue & 3 white. Two packs of clips and 1 pack of hangers will set you back a whopping $3 to hang up 6 saddle pads.

You can see in a few of the pic's that the clips have a hole for the hanger that allows them to stay on and slide back and forth easily.

Her navajo pads are all folded neatly and hung up. Depending on the size and weight of the pad, some have 2 clips and others need 4 to hold them up. Work pads, show pads, pad liners- all hung up neatly and ready for use.

She even has a few pads (both English and western) that are still new in the package and never even been to the barn.  The pole holding all of her pads is actually an old rake handle sitting in the bridle hooks of her saddle racks. She has also admitted to needing something longer since there are still a few more to be located and hung up.

I have to admit I really like her setup. Of course everyone's mileage varies and what works for one may not work for some and vis-versa, but for a fast, cheap and easy way to organize and store your saddle pads, that's pretty cool.