Foreign Perspectives

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Horses make for quite an expensive hobby, don’t they?

As well as large animals being fairly expensive with not only veterinary fees and event charges and so on, there’s the not so insignificant matter of the cost of equestrian clothing for the riders too. If you’re into eventing that can get seriously expensive as, of course, you need to look your best along with the horse.

Still, who sits down and works out the cost of their hobbies?

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Hobbies are one area where people generally consider money to be no object in achieving their ambitions which is probably just as well given the cost of some of our hobbies.

Pets are almost always a lot more expensive than we think they might be and, of course, the worst in this area are the large animals with horse supplies costing really serious money. Having said that, the price of some exotic fish is far from cheap either and they generally die a good deal sooner than horses do.

My current little hobby seems to be picking up university qualifications. That’s a hobby? Well, seeing as I generally don’t need the qualifications (although they are obviously useful) then, yes, I’d say it would fall into the category of hobby for me at the moment. It does though have the advantage that one can always say “but I’m doing this to improve my job prospects” and I’m sure that many people use equally wooly arguments in justifying the expense of their particular hobby.

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It turns out that it’s not nearly so safe as I for one expected with over 12,000 golfing injuries each year that need hospital treatment not to mention millions of pounds of equipment stolen.

Having said that, golf insurance is really cheap with policies starting from around the £30 mark for a UK policy which even covers “Hole in One” insurance along with all the third party damage cover and such like that you’d expect any insurance policy to address.

Given the surprisingly high number of golfing injuries that require hospital treatment I think the £30 is something of a bargain.

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