Rekindled Pride Christmas Stocking Review

It’s always flattering to have a company find me on the internet and I love to chat with other business owners. I’m very excited to bring this review to you for multiple reasons. Let me tell you a little about the company first and you’ll see a couple of those reasons right away.

Rekindled Pride was started by two professional firefighters in Idaho. We all know that gear can only be used for so long before it becomes unsafe. Instead of it ending up in a landfill or wherever disposal happens, they have chosen to give it a new life and new purpose. Recycling the life of each set of bunker gear into products that will get much love. Ok, that’s cool number one. I consider where they are in Idaho to be local since it’s only a 6 hour drive down I-90 to get to them. I love local companies! That’s cool number two.

They sent me a few products to review, but Christmas being right around the corner I’m going to rave at you about this Christmas stocking

It’s all cleaned up and fresh smelling, sorry no smoke smell left over ladies.  But what it does have is the character leftover from it’s previous duties. Each stocking will be 100% unique depending on the gear it was made with. You can’t see it on mine because my picture taking abilities are second to none (insert sarcasm), but there are subtle stains throughout the stocking and some wear marks in the fabric.  It’s obvious that it’s real bunker gear and not just fabric pieced together.

I love that it has much  more character and story behind it than just another cute firefighter Christmas stocking. While we don’t know any of the work done in the gear, it’s still a pretty cool tribute in itself. Makes me think of all sorts of ideas for hubbies bunker gear when it’s time to trash it.  Of course, I’d have to find someone to sew for me but now we’re getting technical lol

Even the back looks great.  If you were one of those people that prefers to match decor then you could fit this easily in with a country Christmas theme of blue and silver by flipping it around.

So how do you know this is actually passing the “got to have it” mark? Both my teens thought it was cool and Dad will love it.  Now that is a serious recommendation beyond the fact that I love it.  There’s still some time but it’s going quickly. Go run and place your order now and surprise your husband with the coolest stocking ever.

But if you wait a little bit I still recommend grabbing yours quickly. Put it away for next year and surprise him. You can plan to stuff the stocking with many things in the next 12 months. Mine was about 18″ long with an 8″ opening so you can fit many different stocking stuffers in it. That’s important for me as I love filling the stockings and I always end up buying too much stuff and can’t fit it in the stocking lol Yeah, we all have our things we’re good at.

I’m hiding this from hubby as he needed a new stocking. I’m tempted to get it embroidered on the cuff but I’ll wait and let him choose. I’m thinking gold thread would look pretty cool.

Now for a little bit of how the world got small this week with this transaction. When I replied to the email I included names of people I knew in her area and of course said where my hubby works. It’s just general practice as I figured they all take so many classes in Spokane they possibly ran into each other. NOPE, however her cousin works in my husbands dept. Not just works with, BUT is my hubbies LT. Sure you’re saying that’s quite ironic right?

When I tried to explain the connection to hubby he already knew I was talking about his LT. Umm, fail, major, major, major fail. I’ve obviously failed in training him if he’s not telling me of products he knows about.  However, I could possibly not have smacked him in the head with the fact he’s supposed to pass info like this on to me. So we’ll let him get a half pass.  I’ll now be hitting facebook pretty hard to make sure others don’t know of stuff I’m missing out on.

Well we ain’t stopping with just the work connection. She said she grew up in the area and named the development she grew up in, also giving LT’s wife’s maiden name. OIY, I then go into knowing she has to be related to a girl I grew up playing soccer with. I knew this girl had younger sisters. YEP, she’s the youngest. Thankfully I’ve been online for a few years so this doesn’t creep me out completely anymore, just makes me smile.

Yes, those are just two more cool things I loved about this review!  I’m looking forward to testing out the dog toy and collar. I’m going to save it for a couple of weeks as I want my little girl to go to her grooming appointment before she models the collar.  Also, I think I’ll be tacky and put them in the girls (dogs) stockings.  How cute would Christmas morning pictures be?  The Lab would love to prance around with a new toy and the Maltese is a fashionista so she’ll love the new collar.  Now that you have a mental picture, you know you’ll tune in to see them soon!

Thank you to Rekindled Pride for sending me the products to review.

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