Anyone need some old Home Depot Tony Stewart flags? Do you think something like that would ever become valuable like rookie baseball cards? I live less than 2 hours from Talladega, but have never had an interest in anything Nascar. Go fast and turn left, and the crazy idea of teams, makes it sound a bit like roller derby. But it is popular down this way to many folks, however, Nascar racing attendance saw the effects of the economy last year.
Now to the HD TS flags: A few years back I added on to each side of my house, new master bath/closet/expand bed room on one side and a new den/football watching room and screen porch on the other side. I needed windows and one sliding glass door, so, reluctantly, I ordered them from Home Depot. Well, I got a call that the products were in so I hooked up my trailer and took off to HD. When I got there I saw a huge Customer Appreciation Tent set up in the parking lot, with refreshments, vendor representatives, etc. I went inside to get my stuff, paid the bill (over $2500) and the salesman told me to take my receipt to the tent and I would get a door prize. I got the windows and doors loaded on the truck and trailer and proceeded to the tent.
Primarily, it was more appreciating the HD representatives talk than appreciating the customer, so I just enjoyed the refreshments and listened. Then they asked if anyone had bought anything, if so show their receipt. One guy gave them a receipt for three or four hundred dollars, they made a big deal out of it, and gave him a small refrigerator. Another guy showed his receipt, about the same amount, they made a big deal and gave him a NICE DeWalt cordless system--with drill, saw, sawsall, etc. My mouth was watering.
The guy asked if anyone else had made a purchase. Proudly, I gave him my over $2500 receipt, he made a BIG deal out of it. He pointed me to a corner of the make-do stage to show me my appreciation prize. I was now the proud owner of two Tony Stewart fold out chairs, two TS travel mugs, one TS racing shirt, and four TS car flags. Now if there were 25 people under that tent we could have taken a poll and I guarantee I would have been the least Nascar fan there. I took my prize, tucked my tail, and went home.
The chairs have come in handy at the beach, the mugs are great on the Kioti tractor, the shirt is great orange for deer hunting, but I am yet to use those four flags. Everytime I see them in my storage area under the house, I think how nice that DeWalt took kit was. And then, my man TS changed teams.