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Location: on my horse | I have a bucket/bag system. I keep clean ones rolled up in a little bucket for use and dirty ones go into a bag to be taken home and washed. I also always keep the bags that the polos come in to store spares I'm not currently using. |
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| Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count? |
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Location: Texas | classicpotatochip - 2015-01-05 7:42 PM
Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count?
Ultimately they tend to end up everywhere but I am trying a new system. Clean rolled up ones are kept in a zippered blanket bag and the dirty one go I to another zippered blanket bag. When I got a full load I wash the dirty ones. Yes I have a crap load because they keep coming out with cool patterns. |
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Location: Montana | If mine get wet during use (sweaty, went through a puddle, etc.) but not dirty enough to wash, I draped them over a saddle rack or bridle hook in the trailer. Then, when they are dry, they get rolled up and put either in the rack on the door of the trailer or in the rubber box I have in there just for such things. Rubbermaid boxes in a trailer are MOST handy for carrying things you don't quite have a hook or rack for.  |
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Location: NC | When theyre nice and clean, I roll them up and stick them in gallon size bags by full sets. Keeps the matching ones together and makes it easier to just snatch and go. I have a million pairs and they always end up everywhere. But they START out in gallon size bags in my Classic Equine boot bags. I have more than one got polos. Lol |
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Location: NC | barrelbasher - 2015-01-05 9:24 PM
classicpotatochip - 2015-01-05 7:42 PM
Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count?
Ultimately they tend to end up everywhere but I am trying a new system. Clean rolled up ones are kept in a zippered blanket bag and the dirty one go I to another zippered blanket bag. When I got a full load I wash the dirty ones. Yes I have a crap load because they keep coming out with cool patterns.
I just started using them (took me awhile of wrapping and wrappibg and wrappibg before I felt comfortable using them) and I swear I have 12 sets. And I keep buying more...... |
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| I have a slight addiction to polo wraps. I store my washed and TIGHTLY rolled polos in a big plastic storage tote in my trailer.
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| I had them originally in this long green tube looking thing that had sections. Each section held 3 sets of 4 and it hangs up. I think their was 5 sections HOWEVER now.....
I have about 40 sets in a Rubbermaid tote in the tack room and the ones that I use I keep rolled in the zippered bags. I just grab and go. Of course I think their are about 6-8 more sets in the trailer right now. And another 4 or so sets in my house. My husband says I have a problem. I tell him if they would quit coming out with cool patterns I wouldn't have this problem. 3 years ago I wouldn't have touched patterned polos! Now I have a ton of them. I tell him atleast its polos and NOT shoes.
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Location: Kansas | I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.
In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room.
Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........ |
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Location: MD | mesh laundry bags I have 4 bags so once I'm done using them I stick them into the laundry bag (so I don't have an excuse as to why they are all bunched up laying around everywhere.) the clean ones are rolled up and in a duffle bag, I'm going to get some rubbermaid totes though since all of the stink bugs LOVE to hang out in those bags and scare me when i dig around in there for the right pair.
ETA: I did see someone that stripped velcro strips across their trailer door and stuck all of their boots and polos to them....I want to do that really bad, so I may get my crafty on and try it! That looks like a great idea to get everything off the floor and have a home!
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Location: TN | i have 3 stacks of the clear plastic 4 drawer storrage "things" (dresser) from walmart.
one drawer holds 4 sets of polo wraps. would post picture but can't seam to do it
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | We also keep ours in small mesh laundry bags. We roll and store the clean ones in them. The dirty wraps go back in the bags ready to throw in the washer. We have a couple of big collapsable mesh laundry basket in the storage under our mangers - one for bags of cleans and one for bags of dirties. We have a LOT of polos!! |
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Location: Louisiana | I just keep mine in the bags they came in. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I keep mine in the bags they came in. But if they're dirty (sweaty or muddy) they go in a bucket to be washed at the landromat later. |
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Location: floating down a river | I use rubber bands around each. They are already re-rolled and ready to use, then put a rubber band around them to keep them tidy. I store them in containers. |
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Location: Randolph, Utah | classicpotatochip - 2015-01-05 6:42 PM
Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count?
This! Lol
Mine are everywhere but I have a the plastic containers with drawers that I keep the polos in, if you stack them 2 high you can fit a lot in one drawer. I also keep my boots, BOT, and meds in them. When I am organized and use them it really helps my trailer stay cleaner. |
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| JcNhEmI - 2015-01-07 10:07 AM
classicpotatochip - 2015-01-05 6:42 PM
Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count?
This! Lol
Mine are everywhere but I have a the plastic containers with drawers that I keep the polos in, if you stack them 2 high you can fit a lot in one drawer. I also keep my boots, BOT, and meds in them. When I am organized and use them it really helps my trailer stay cleaner.
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Location: WI | I only have about 8 pairs and keep them in the mesh bag that comes with them (CE kind), then in a CE boot bag. I wash between each use (but I'm lucky and have an industrial washer at the barn). I only use them when racing, so 8 is enough for me! It's hard not to buy more with all the fun patterns that keep coming out! |
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Location: Around here somewhere... | I have a whole bunch of sets lol I can't resist the colors and patterns!!! We keep ours in a duffle bag, neatly rolled up and placed together in sets. Once I take them off, they are in a tangle on the LQ floor, but the day after a race we sit down and roll them all back up lol we keep tape in the duffle bag, too, and have another bag for bell boots. |
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Location: Texas | rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-06 8:27 AM I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.
In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room.
Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........
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Location: Kansas | pinx05 - 2015-01-07 5:53 PM rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-06 8:27 AM I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.
In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room.
Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........ Ok tell me how!
it's beyond simple. I buy velcro off Amazon (1.5 inch wide or 2 inch wide are my favorites) and fleece in three yard chunks at the fabric store (only when its 40% off or more....I am cheap!)
At home, I cut the selvages off and cut the fleece into 4-5 inch wide strips using my quilting ruler and a rotary cutter. You have to make sure to fold the fleece in half so it's 4.5 feet long before you cut it or you'll end up with short polos. Once I have strips, I fold one end into a triangle like the picture shows. I sew a few stiches across the two sides of the triangle to hold it in place, then lay the sticky velcro strip across the middle of the triangle so it sticks out past the point of it. I sew across the velcro at the pointy end, down the edge of the velcro, across the bottom of the triangle, then up the side of it, to the top, down the other side, across the bottom to the first edge of velcro, then diagonally to your starting point, across the top by your first seam, diagonally from right to left to the bottom of the triangle, then up the velcro edge to your starting point. I've attached a picture with arrows and numbers to hopefully illustrate it.
Then I measure down from the tip of the triangle about 6-7 inches (6.5 is my current standard) and center the other half of the velcro on the polo wrap. I sew all the way around the velcro, cut my loose threads and roll the polo up so its ready to use.
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I have brush boxes and I keep them in there. I can fit 16 individual polos in one box. I have 2 boxes and they stack up so they stay put when I travel. I just sqeeze them in side by side and they don't pop out or go rolling everywhere. I keep the mesh bags some of them come with and when they are dirty or just need cleaned I wad them up and toss them in the mesh bag that way I know they need to get unpacked when I get home. Plus if they get wet, the mesh still allows the wraps to breath so they don't mildew. I've been doing this for years. It works pretty slick. Problem is I need more brush boxes for my polos. LOL!!
ETA: what about storing them in a hanging shoe organizer. You know the cheap plastic ones that our grandma's had in their closets?
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Location: Texas | rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-07 6:13 PM pinx05 - 2015-01-07 5:53 PM rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-06 8:27 AM I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.
In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room.
Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........ Ok tell me how!
At home, I cut the selvages off and cut the fleece into 4-5 inch wide strips using my quilting ruler and a rotary cutter. You have to make sure to fold the fleece in half so it's 4.5 feet long before you cut it or you'll end up with short polos. Once I have strips, I fold one end into a triangle like the picture shows. I sew a few stiches across the two sides of the triangle to hold it in place, then lay the sticky velcro strip across the middle of the triangle so it sticks out past the point of it. I sew across the velcro at the pointy end, down the edge of the velcro, across the bottom of the triangle, then up the side of it, to the top, down the other side, across the bottom to the first edge of velcro, then diagonally to your starting point, across the top by your first seam, diagonally from right to left to the bottom of the triangle, then up the velcro edge to your starting point. I've attached a picture with arrows and numbers to hopefully illustrate it.
Then I measure down from the tip of the triangle about 6-7 inches (6.5 is my current standard) and center the other half of the velcro on the polo wrap. I sew all the way around the velcro, cut my loose threads and roll the polo up so its ready to use.
Well that is pretty simple, thanks! I don't know if you have a JoAnns fabric near you but you can sign up for them to send you coupons (in the mail or on your phone). They are always sending out coupons for like 25% off your entire bill, on top of the fabrics that are already on sale. I am pretty sure that is for buying online also.
For black friday they had a 3 day sale with some fabrics 75% off. I didn't look at fleece but I know it was on sale at the time. Veteran's day was a 70% off sale.
Ok I'll stop with my ol' lady fabric talk lol.
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Location: Kansas | pinx05 - 2015-01-07 8:04 PM rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-07 6:13 PM pinx05 - 2015-01-07 5:53 PM rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-06 8:27 AM I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.
In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room.
Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........ Ok tell me how!
At home, I cut the selvages off and cut the fleece into 4-5 inch wide strips using my quilting ruler and a rotary cutter. You have to make sure to fold the fleece in half so it's 4.5 feet long before you cut it or you'll end up with short polos. Once I have strips, I fold one end into a triangle like the picture shows. I sew a few stiches across the two sides of the triangle to hold it in place, then lay the sticky velcro strip across the middle of the triangle so it sticks out past the point of it. I sew across the velcro at the pointy end, down the edge of the velcro, across the bottom of the triangle, then up the side of it, to the top, down the other side, across the bottom to the first edge of velcro, then diagonally to your starting point, across the top by your first seam, diagonally from right to left to the bottom of the triangle, then up the velcro edge to your starting point. I've attached a picture with arrows and numbers to hopefully illustrate it.
Then I measure down from the tip of the triangle about 6-7 inches (6.5 is my current standard) and center the other half of the velcro on the polo wrap. I sew all the way around the velcro, cut my loose threads and roll the polo up so its ready to use.
For black friday they had a 3 day sale with some fabrics 75% off. I didn't look at fleece but I know it was on sale at the time. Veteran's day was a 70% off sale.
Ok I'll stop with my ol' lady fabric talk lol.
We have learned that Matt can load coupons on his iphone and save us money that way. We bought stuff that was 50% or more off last weekend plus had a 25% off your total purchase coupon and that saved us another $21. I love Joanns and coupons!! |
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Location: Louisiana | Blaundee - 2015-01-07 4:25 PM
I have a whole bunch of sets lol I can't resist the colors and patterns!!! We keep ours in a duffle bag, neatly rolled up and placed together in sets. Once I take them off, they are in a tangle on the LQ floor, but the day after a race we sit down and roll them all back up lol we keep tape in the duffle bag, too, and have another bag for bell boots.
To keep them from getting tangled up, I re-roll mine as I take them off. They are always nice and neat and go right back into their bag. If they are wadded up in the bag, it is because they got too dirty and need to be washed. |
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Location: Around here somewhere... | dashnlotti - 2015-01-07 8:51 PM
Blaundee - 2015-01-07 4:25 PM
I have a whole bunch of sets lol I can't resist the colors and patterns!!! We keep ours in a duffle bag, neatly rolled up and placed together in sets. Once I take them off, they are in a tangle on the LQ floor, but the day after a race we sit down and roll them all back up lol we keep tape in the duffle bag, too, and have another bag for bell boots.
To keep them from getting tangled up, I re-roll mine as I take them off. They are always nice and neat and go right back into their bag. If they are wadded up in the bag, it is because they got too dirty and need to be washed.
Ok lil miss overachiever, just trying to make us all look bad... RFLOL JK :D I used to roll mine up as I took them off, but now there's so much going on that it is so much easier and faster to just chunk them on the floor lol I haul with my sisters and mom, and we all pitch in to help each other get ready, warm up, cool down, take videos, etc, but it also means there's a lot more horses to hustle to get ready (we often take multiple horses each)... So in a way, is easier, and in another way there is more work & rush lol The day after, we sit around and roll wraps and talk about how it all went lol |
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Location: Around here somewhere... | rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-07 5:13 PM
pinx05 - 2015-01-07 5:53 PM rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-06 8:27 AM I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.
In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room.
Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........ Ok tell me how!
At home, I cut the selvages off and cut the fleece into 4-5 inch wide strips using my quilting ruler and a rotary cutter. You have to make sure to fold the fleece in half so it's 4.5 feet long before you cut it or you'll end up with short polos. Once I have strips, I fold one end into a triangle like the picture shows. I sew a few stiches across the two sides of the triangle to hold it in place, then lay the sticky velcro strip across the middle of the triangle so it sticks out past the point of it. I sew across the velcro at the pointy end, down the edge of the velcro, across the bottom of the triangle, then up the side of it, to the top, down the other side, across the bottom to the first edge of velcro, then diagonally to your starting point, across the top by your first seam, diagonally from right to left to the bottom of the triangle, then up the velcro edge to your starting point. I've attached a picture with arrows and numbers to hopefully illustrate it.
Then I measure down from the tip of the triangle about 6-7 inches (6.5 is my current standard) and center the other half of the velcro on the polo wrap. I sew all the way around the velcro, cut my loose threads and roll the polo up so its ready to use.
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Location: Kansas | classicpotatochip - 2015-01-05 7:42 PM
Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count?
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Location: MD | strangely enough I just saw this on FB! The girls trailer had these on her door which I think is totally genius!
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Location: west of East Texas | I usually hang them on a bridle rack for the ride home so they can dry out and shake off some dirt. Then next time I open the trailer I roll them back up and stick them in a bag. I have several different kinds of bags that were just laying around the house. One is a beach towel tote, one is a school backpack the kid wasn't using anymore. One is messenger style bag. The one thing I prefer is that the bag is some kind of mesh material so that the dirt can shake out. A regular duffle type or fabric type just kept getting filthy inside. Each bag holds several sets and can easily be carried to and from the house when they need washing. Actually, there is usually one bag in the house at all times. Laundry day looks like this:
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I have two laundry baskets in my tack room. If they are usable I just knock the dust off and hang it over something. I try to be organized but they end up everywhere lol |
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | OK Polo addicts - how do you wash yours? I just throw mine in my washing machine and dryer at home (when I remember) but somebody told me they broke their washing machine that way. Anybody do anything different? |
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| I bought one of the cheap canvas shoe racks that hang over a door from Dollar General or Walmart. Was less than $10. It has 4 slots across and roughly 6 slots down and each slot holds 2 wraps. It hangs on the door of my midtack. |
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