We are near a park here, and the wind gets vicious sometimes, I’ve had to replace my flags out front about 10-12 times since we moved here in 2004. I send them to a teacher at my daughter’s elementary school who works with the Boy Scouts. They do a ceremony and destroy the damaged flags properly.
That’s great. I just found a method in a magazine that will keep mine from hitting the bricks on the house. It said to put a grommet on the bottom tip and run a string from it to a lanyard back to the house.