List Your Refrigerator Magnets Here

In My Humble Opinion
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INSTRUCTIONS:

Peel off all of your refrigerator magnets and dump them in a large bowl.

Bring them over to your computer and make a list to post.

My favorite is a genuine Nick Park miniature doghouse with one thoroughly dissatisfied and scowling Gromit peering out of same. He’s wearing earmuffs that depict a scene from “The Wrong Trousers.” It’s where he’s (unsuccessfully) attempting to escape the schmaltzy music being played by the villainous penguin.

A red heart shaped, Red Cross issued “Give Blood for Life” memento from donating after 9/11.

A local government and municipal services phone number chart given to me by my district’s city councilman while I was waiting in line to drop off part of a two ton scrap iron and debris load from my backyard.

A garbage and recycling pickup schedule sent by the city.

Four different spring clips that hold:

  1. Shopping list and pen

  2. Food coupons

  3. More food coupons

  4. Coupon for free Friskies cat food after ten purchases

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Volante Pizza
The Lily…Hairdressing Salon
Bakers Delight
Melb. Uni Library
Melb. Uni Student Admin
Papa Giuseppe’s Pizza and Pasta
Ridgeway Takeaway
Batman Medical Centre (x3)
Video Works
Golden Star Chicken and Seafood
St. Georges Fish and Chips
Number 96 Takeaway.
Strzelecki Medical Centre

And of course, our infamous ‘Be Alert, Not Alarmed’ Ant-Terrorist fridge magnet provided courtesy of John W. Howard. It’s the most boring one of all, and the magnet sucks.

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A complete Magnetic Poetry set (and if you think I’m peeling them all off, you’re crazy).

A picture of my parents.

Adelphia Cable

my veterinarian

A happy duck.

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Three ceramic stars, one red, one blue, one yellow. These just seem to float from place to place on the fridge, never really being pressed into service.

One ladybug. Ditto.

Two stainless steel “knobs” that could probably each lift a car, and are nearly impossible to peel off the fridge. The only way I can pry them loose is to make sure that under each is a good 1/8 thickness of paper. One holds report cards and progress reports for the entire school year, the other has medical bills under it.

Three reproductions of vintage advertising: Cracker Jack, Dutch Maid Scouring Powder and “Pepsi 5 cents.” They don’t do anything either, but they sorta match the decor of my kitchen, which is a hodge-podge of vintage general store combined with 50s ice cream parlor.

Two flat flexible calendars from school (one from last year… I oughta go through these more often). Also, one calendar cum notepad thingie from my Realtor, also from last year.

Two radio station flat flexible magnets that hold recipes on the “non-public” side of the fridge (the side that is almost blocked by the pantry.)

Two black plastic spring clip things that hold coupons and miscellaneous things - sometimes a dishtowel.

A cardinal made out of a clothespin and some Fun Foam and googly eyes that my daughter made in third grade. It’s supposed to hold papers, but the magnet is so weak that anything heavier than a single coupon causes it to slide UNDER the fridge, so mostly it just sits there, barely clinging.

A puzzle magnet from Amazon.com. The outside of this one double as a picture frame and is currently hosting a photo of my daughter, her friend and me at the zoo. The inside is an animal jigsaw that has pieces scattered all over the non-public side of the fridge and one piece on top of the fridge because that irritates my daughter :slight_smile:

A polymer clay thingie that a friend bought me. It says “Friends are flowers in the garden of life” and it’s a TERRIBLE example of quality polymer clay work, but a nice thought just the same.

That was kinda fun! I should do this more often.

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15 out of the original 26 alphabet magnets (the cats have dragged the others down and hidden them)

2 magnets from colleges that neither of us attend anymore

3 vintage working girl magnets. They say “she kind of enjoyed working for an idiot,” “she had her own special nickname for him,” and “she was comforted in the knowledge that they were helpless without her”

3 large magnetic reproductions of impressionist paintings

1 Mister Yuck magnet

4 magnets that came in a set that I got for my birthday. There’s a director, a beauty queen, a superhero and a woman in a kimono

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From my own magnetic poetry on the frig:

get naked
then take hot shower
stick wild hair up ass
put on bra and zip up pants
suck in belly

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magnetic poetry, 2 sets (original and ‘trendy,’ i think)

a set of picasso paintings, and one for Matisse, from when I went to the MoMAQNS exhibit a few weeks ago.

a quote: “The more you know, the less you understand.” -Tao Te Ching

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hmmm. Well, I have 11 various happyface magnets. (go figure)

1 Pizzahut magnet

1 photomagnet of my nephew

2 photomagnets from my trip to Switzerland

1 with the Lorax (from Dr. Seuss book of the same name)

1 from a friend that says “Good food and good friends are the core of Life”

Last but not least, one from the grocery store where I used to work. It’s an ad for pears that says, “Ripe when yields to gentle pressure.” I have kept it around because I like the sentiment…:wink:

My friend’s hubby works in a pharmacy, and he is collecting prescription drug magnets. Viagra, Prozac, Paxil. I can’t wait for those.

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–A picture of a baby hippo.

–Four “Peanuts” characters (Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Woodstock).

–A little cameo-shaped magnet intended to hold a wallet-sized photo of someone. As of now, there’s no one in there. I need to do something about that, actually.

–Several nondescript colored bars (red, white, blue)

–Five little flowers about the size of a quarter, from my grandmother’s refrigerator. They’re made of some kind of enamelled plastic.

–Two bar magnets from a Junior Electrician’s kit of days gone by.

–Two little round magnets from the inside of a telephone.

–A slightly larger round magnet, source unknown.

–A blocky magnet I cribbed out of a disused piece of medical equipment. Dunno what it’s made out of, but it’s a permanent feature of the fridge door now. It’s so strong, any attempt to budge it just scratches the enamel up. I could probably wrench it off with pliers, but then again maybe not. So I can’t complete the instructions in the OP, and even if I could I wouldn’t get that thing within ten yards of my computer.

Hey, this thread wasn’t some sort of arcane practical joke, was it? “Put all your refrigerator magnets in a bowl and bring them to the computer. If you get tired of counting them, set the bowl up on the hard drive and go make yourself a sandwich.” Pure evil!

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Yeesh. My mom has something like 500 magnets. There’s all kinds of things. Therefore, I clearly can’t think of anything besides the magnet with the Pizza Hut phone number on it.

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Two Wild Things.

Mary Engelbreit, “Every Pot Has Its Lid.”

Three old schedules from our local minor league baseball team, plus one 2000 one from the Cincinnati Reds (we live nowhere near Cincinnati).

Two from local takeout place Planet Wings.

A magnetized drawing of a vampire I made some years back…don’t remember why.

Ads for a massage therapist I saw once, a drugstore we use routinely, and a lawn guy we used to use before we moved.

And a magnetized picture of mrs. snac and the snacbabies back before they became the snacteens.

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I like you, GrinnaGirl. Please post more often.

Mwuhahahahahahah! What? … Oh drat, somebody has stumbled upon my dastardly plot.
[Montgomery Burns]

Release the hounds.

[/Montgomery Burns]

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Oh, and two sets of magnetized poetry, one in English, the other auf Deutsch. And an old ad for overalls that “fit like a pig’s nose.” (Just discovered it under the doctor appt reminder.)

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-A magnetic poetry set

-4 ceramic-y type dragons (one with no head, due to multiple falls to the floor…poor decapitated dragon :frowning: )

-One calendar magnet from my bank

-One ceramic-y type Australian flag

-One picture frame with no picture

-One magnetic whiteboard

-One woodcut with a drawing of a wolf

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I just have 5 :

1 : A school picture magnet of my son Liam
2 : One from Mystic Seaport
3 : One from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
4 : “Sarcasm is just one more free service we offer!”
5 : “Some people never go crazy. What horrible lives they must lead.” - Charles Bukowski

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  1. Curious George huffing ether
  2. Miniature Christmas wreath
  3. Tarpon fish magnet
  4. 3-D Aunt Jemima
  5. Those Darn Accordians tile
  6. Portrait of me drawn by best friend’s son
  7. Butterfly thermometer
  8. Baltimore Orioles schedule from 1992
  9. Lawyer’s business card
  10. Magnetic postcard of Maine
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Only three.

  1. A magnet that looks like a tiny box of Dunkin’ Donuts.
  2. A Three Stooges magnet.
  3. A picture magnet of me and my dog Abby. (Sad note: the picture was the last one taken of her–just two days before she died. :frowning: )
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Several very mudane ones, such as a new area code map for the Chicago metro area which is now out of date.

Betty Boop.

A bunch of cats of various breeds.

A favorite: “Real women don’t have hot flashes: we have power surges!” (from when I used to work for a surge suppressor manufacturer, but believe me, it’s wasn’t from them!)

Michelangelo’s David, along with various pieces of clothing for him that you can layer on like Colorforms (everything from tighty whities, to bowtie and commerbund, to cowboy boots, to kilt).

A wallet-size photo frame with an old picture of my little brother (he was about 7 in the picture; he’ll be 14 in June)

A WXRT magnet

NYC Transit Authority logo (my dad works for them, and he’s a huuuuge train geek)

One that says “Smokers will be pummelled with punishing blows over their bodies.”

Couple of boring, practical clip magnets for holding flyers, movie schedules, etc.

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You asked for it…

Commercially produced
Two ceramic space alien heads
Plastic skull
Ceramic sun
Eye with rainbow background
Fresno California
Golden Gate Bridge
Fairy Soap ad
Gay Johnny texas Vegetables ad
“The Young Physique” magazine cover repro
“Queer Daddy” book cover repro
“Queer for Kicks” book cover repro
Cher “Believe” tour magnet
Divine
Catwoman (Eartha Kitt)
San Francisco
“I’m Gay. Get Over It!” slogan
Wonder Woman
Felix the Cat
Gay Cock (ad but I don’t know for what)
Dyke
Bank ad shaped like light bulb
Wizard of Oz
Quality paperback Book Club preferred member phone number
Wisconsin Dells
House on the Rock Octopus
Madison Public Library
Nurse on Call from my health insurance company
Kennedy Space Center
Joan Jett Blakk for President 1992
Illinois State University Milner Library
Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas
Liechtenstein
Pink man/clip (currently holding my tickets to HAIRSPRAY!)

Homemade
Eve Arden
Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie Sioux’s left eye
Divine
Two Badtz maru
Images from: Frankenstein (1910); Dracula’s Daughter; Sunset Blvd; Blue Velvet; All About Eve; Morocco
National Coming Out Day
Judy Garland
Marlene Dietrich
Cartoon guy saying “I am out, therefore I am”
Cartoon woman saying “I’m feeling less and less PERKY about being an American”
Felix the Cat
Christopher Isherwood
Ru Paul
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Louise Brooks (4)
Enrique Iglasias
Painting of a winged devil carrying a fat lady
Ms Hippie (columnist for a leftie paper I used to write for)
John Waters

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Oh, and Magenta’s lips from Rocky Horror Picture Show and a kitchen timer.