We have on our refrigerator almost 500 magnets. We travel a lot and I get one wherever we go.
A couple of days ago I spent some two hours rearranging things to get a more efficient packing. But it looks like the best I can do is get another 10-15 on it. And as we are leaving for Europe in a week it’ll be full when we get back.
So, what’s on your fridge? Am I the US refrigerator champion?
Well, your fridge certainly has more magnets than mine sports; I think I have about a dozen.
I only have a couple souvenier magnets. They are both from Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, and they actually belong to my grandson. The rest of my magnets are from local businesses or are clothespin-style. Poor boring fridge.
Do you know that all those magnets will magnetize the iron contained in foods such as green leafy vegetables and meat? When you then eat it, you could have problems with ATM and credit cards, cell phones and compasses will point at you. 
Yeah - your fridge sounds way cooler than mine. I have a ton of magnets on my fridge, but they’re more business oriented/sports oriented versus from anywhere cool (except for my Green Bay Packers magnet).
I think we just discovered why we’re seeing indications of a looming geomagnetic polarity reversal.
My husband and I get a fridge magnet wherever we go. But we don’t put those ones on the fridge - we went to IKEA and bought 2 large metal boards. One for just him, one for just me, and we divide the ones from trips together. The boards hang on the landing where you turn to go up our stairs so they can be shown off. Fridge-crowding problem solved.
When my maternal grandfather was alive, he used to take my cousins and me down to a place called Battleship Cove. It is a floating museum for US Navy vessels located in Fall River, MA. The gift shop had all sorts of magnets, my favorites being the collective map of the 50 US States that you had to purchase individually. We kind of made it part of our yearly thing to get as many as we could afford (with allowance money and such). We had collected the entire map inside of a few years, and it was displayed proudly on his and Grandma’s fridge for decades. I wonder what happened to them all.
My wife collects these. I don’t like them on the fridge (and they tend to leave little marks on the stainless)
So when we remodeled last year I put a 4’x4’ wood frame on the wall, and painted the wall inside the frame with magnetic paint. Works like a charm and all her magnets now go there! It doesn’t work on big magnets though (but I suppose if you painted more layers of the paint it would as the paint has metal shavings in it). I had thought about getting a piece of metal as the backing but opted to do the paint. For us it worked and is a cool conversation piece when we have guests.
Count me in with the mostly boring local business magnets. I also like to put my I’m A Georgia Voter stickers on the fridge in the laundry room, aka, the beerator because I think the little peaches are cool. My favorite fridge magnet says, “The only normal people are those you don’t know very well.” Words of wisdom! 
I think I’ll look into this. Ms Hook is starting to make strange noises about the fridge. Thanks for the tip.
O yes, my son and I collect magnets from our travels. This has been a special tradition between he and I, since he was a baby, he is now 16. We have been to quite a few interesting places, Alaska, Rome, Paris, both sides of Caribbean, rode the rapids down Colorado river. And our things to do keep growing. At the end of each trip, we can’t wait to come home and hang our new memoir on the fridge! It’s our way of saying 'it was great, but we are glad we are home."
Well, I think the OP is probably in the running for the most, at least for the board denizens. But I think I’m in the running for the most romantic display:
Bob wins at Valentines! by Zyada, on Flickr
It’s still up on the fridge, too!
My wife and I bought a map-shaped fridge magnet of every state or Canadian province we’ve been to; bit by bit we assembled a map of North America on our fridge (well, the non-Spanish speaking parts, anyway) until eventually it became complete. It’s a bit messy, as the magnets aren’t to scale, but the placement is roughly correct.
(Many of these are now lost, but re-acquiring lost fridge magnets isn’t high on the priority list, I’m afraid. But it was cool while it lasted, and maybe we’ll make the effort to make it complete again.)
I guess I have 150 or so on my fridge right now, the latest addition being a magnetized Hofbrau Original mini bottle opener. I probably have another 20 or so at work and who knows how many buried away in souvenir boxes in the closet somewhere.
This is a fun thing to do at work. I started it a couple years ago, asking that whoever is going on vacation bring back a magnet; there are 50 or so magnets now on the work fridge. I also asked everyone to sign the back of their magnets.
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When my fiancee moved in, she took a dim view of clutter in general and refrigerator magnets in particular, so we arrived at a compromise that actually worked out pretty well. I divided my magnet into 4 groups, and rotate them (at the change of seasons).
The 4 groups (since you’re dying to know)
Attractions – theme parks, state & national parks
Broadways shows, hotels, casinos, cruise ships
Cities
Teams I root for and other misc stuff I like
I’ve got a Mayan calendar, one that says, “Book Woman,” a photo of a man with 59 years of sobriety as a chubby-faced toddler that says “Everything will be alright.” seashells, “Dull women have clean homes,” and a Hardanger embroidery piece that says, “He who wears the shoe knows where it hurts” in Norwegian.
One clip holds a pretty greeting card from my cousin, another a list of dishes I plan to prepare and a third all those coupons I never get around to using.
