I have a magnet of Kermit the Frog dressed as Henry VIII.
Our fridge is mostly covered with snapshots in magnetic pockets. On the side we still have a set of those magnetic letters that you buy for babies to play with - the kids spell things out with them sometimes. Oh, and we have a magnet with the Blue Sun logo.
Treasure. Absolutely.
You see, my grandparents, who are only 93 and 92 years old, have been jealous of each other for as long as I remember and, from what I’m told, for decades before that. Finding presents for them pre-fridge magnets was a biyatch - now all I have to do when I’m on location wherever is find two magnets the same size and they’re happy!
I was playing one of those Doper photo threads and one of the requests was “take a picture of your fridge.” Well, someone else pointed out one of the magnets on there was from '99. So I have magnets and hardly pay attention to them, and I don’t even use them to stick things on. A bare plain fridge just seems boring to me.
Now I know I have a picture of a beautiful masjid, and something Chinese, and that’s all I can remember.
Our fridge has an assortment of magnets.
Giant Eagle
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Browns Schedule from 2006
Cleveland Browns Schedule from 2002
4 free magnets from Camel with fish on them
magnet white board
landscaping company magnet
vote for council person from 2000
generic emergency number magnet with nothing filled on
a picture my son drew in 1996 that was suppose to be of himself that the teacher lamented and stuck magnets on
There are more but I can’t remember them of the top of my head. There is no organization to them and they hold up various expired coupons.
Fridge magnets?
Graduate students tend to travel a lot. I ask them to bring back the tackiest magnets they can find. Nobody can top Florida.
I just cleaned off about a dozen magnets a couple of weeks ago. Some remain: a Washington Potato magnet that I’ve had for over 20 years. A couple of M&M magnets. A dog-bone shaped magnet from the vet’s office. A van shaped magnet from the HVAC company. A band-aid shaped magnet from the health department.
On the side of the fridge is where I keep the round magnets (removed from shower curtain liners) that we use to hold up the grocery and Costco lists, and the extra paper to make new lists. That side of our fridge looks like hell.
We have a few random decorative magnets we’ve collected, a few advertisements, and a set of those plastic alphabet magnets that my children remain somehow attached to. The bulk of the space right now, though, is taken up by calendars, schedules, schools supplies lists, and other vital sources of information.
My refrigerator magnets are a set of marble slides, chutes, wheels and other devices, so I can move them around and make a “Mousetrap” setup where I start the marble off at the top and it goes through the course. It’s lots of fun. See? Why, no. I don’t have kids. Why do you ask?
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I haven’t counted recently but I must be up to around 200 by now. States I’ve lived. Cities I’ve visited. Some random alien heads and skulls. Some commercial ones with old book and magazine covers, advertisements and such. A few freebies from health insurance companies and the like. But the vast majority are ones that I’ve made myself from those sheets of magnetic material. Ticket stubs from Broadway shows and concerts and from the Empire State Building, bits and pieces from old CD packages, interesting magazine photos, a few beefcake shots of celebrities. One I wanted and still regret not buying, a reproduction of a magazine cover (Confidential I think) with a beefcake shot of Rock Hudson on it with a double-entendre headline. Saw it in the campus bookstore at college and didn’t get it when I had the chance and when I went back for it, it was gone.
I ahve a set of futurama magnets that can be seen here. (just that first set, not the single ones below it.)
My roommates have some other magnets, the best one being a bottle opener with a magnet on it, cause that way there is always a bottle opening right where you need it.
I have only a couple of free ones. One the Chicago Public Library gave out when they switched to using printed return date reminders from putting a re-used renewal date card in the book pocket.
The rest I bought:
Some old sci-fi magazine covers
Some art ones, including small sculpted grotesques
Some old print ads, including Frog in your Throat cough drops, “Take a/drink WHIZ - a better beverage”, and Fairy Soap - “HAVE YOU A LITTLE FAIRY IN YOUR HOME?” (mentioned by Cecil)
Well, it says “ages 7 and up”, so I guess you’re good to go, unless you lied about your age to join the Dope?