I have a ton of primary-colored magnetic chip clips. Sometimes I arrange them in pleasing patterns. I also have a Coke bottle opener, but the Coke logo fell off. I have both the Astros and Texans game schedules. I have a magnet from The Mirage hotel in Vegas, where my sweetie and I got married.
I also use the chip clips to hang my pot holders on the side of the fridge.
I have some of those clip type magnets, including two that look like clothes pins. I have a magnet that looks like a cell phone and used to ring when you pressed it but has long since quit ringing. Among others, one from ALAGASCO (Alabama Gas Company) that has a thermometer, maganets that advertise various businesses around town, ones that look like buttons, a “church key” the top of which looks like a beer mug complete with foam head, bear magnets and one that says “The Only Normal People Are Those You Don’t Know Very Well.”
I have lots and lots of magnets, displayed on two refrigerators. I’m some kinda fridge magnet freak, I guess.
Not much to report. Just a souvenir bottle opener picked up in Ibiza, Oh and a shed load of magnetic ‘fridge poetry’. My Fiancee’s sister got her a box of magnetic words & letters for Christmas.
Mine are actually rare earth magnets taken from dead computer hard drives. They are super strong, and able to hold up lots of 4-year-old type artwork. I have to slide them to the edge of the fridge to take them off.
Currently:
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[li]a picture of Emmet from Queer as Folk. [/li][li]A pineapple. [/li][li]A “Today I feel” magnet which has lots of faces with differnent emotions. You place a little box around which one you’re feeling.[/li][li]A magnet with a hunky guy advertising some underwear store here in town. Don’t even know what the store is; but the guy is hot.[/li][li]Imo’s Pizza[/li][li]A souvenier picture of my son from The Magic House.[/li][/ul]
I have many others that were on my old 'frig before I moved. But I’ve not unpacked everything yet and I don’t know where they are.
I have about a dozen different state magnets (my boyfriend is a truck driver and he picks them up for me when he’s on the road). My favorite is from Arizona and is actually a teeny live cactus in a wee pot. I have one of a bunny saying, “Let’s make a list of all the people who piss us off.” Another says “Beware of the cold speculum” (sadly, I bought that one because it reminded me of a true incident). I have a lot of those clear plastic ones with pictures of my friend’s kids (as well as my own little sweety, of course). I have one of Bill the Cat at the Betty Ford clinic. My daughter has some animal ones on there. That’s all I can think of at the moment.
There near 90 on mine. They are mostly free ones that advertise a hospital, medication or a doctor’s office. Others are from restaurants, still more are from Phar-Mor and Big Lots. About 10 are food pyramid magets, and there are several furry fruit shaped ones, as well has hard plasstic fruits. There are plastic cats, pigs, birds, and flowers, too. There are also giant metal magnet hooks with foam bats and ghosts on them.
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[li]Four magnets from a roofing company. I live in an apartment but I keep getting them.[/li][li]Two Dame Edna magnets from when I saw her in NY[/li][li]Groth Music. One of the best local music stores[/li][li]Doctor’s Office[/li][li]Dentist’s office[/li][li]Credit Union magnet/ginormous letter opener (it’s about 4" x 6") [/li][/ul]
I stuck my answer to this question in the last thread on the topic.
Since then I’ve added a bunch, including making magnets out of the ticket stubs from when I saw Hairspray and Mamma Mia! on Broadway and Cyndi Lauper in concert in Chicago, a couple of magnets from the Broadway trip (including an official Mamma Mia! one…no official Hairspray magnets dammit) and a few others which escape me as I post from work.
State-shaped and province-shaped magnets for every U.S. state and Canadian province we’ve been to (which is now all of them), plus one for Washington, DC.
It was so much fun, filling in that map piece by piece as we toured more and more.
I have a little dorm fridge here in my office, so I can tell you what’s on this one now and then post again from home with that list. On the at-work fridge, I have the following magnets:
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[li]Mr. Yuk[/li][li]Natural Bridge[/li][li]Fallingwater[/li][li]Luray Caverns[/li][li]dafridge.com (the world’s coolest stuff)[/li][li]Morton Salt (the “when it rains it pours” salt girl w/umbrella)[/li][li]National Security Agency[/li][li]Pollos Inka (awesome Peruvian chicken place)[/li][li]Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern[/li][li]Discovery Channel[/li][li]1980 Winter Olympic Games[/li][li]Extended Stay America[/li][li]Hilo Hattie (from their Nashville store: it says “Aloha, y’all!”)[/li][/ul]
So that makes 13 magnets.
FWIW, I also have a small sign that says “This lunatic fridge is personal property,” because the property manager here has gotten a little anal and asked everyone to mark our personal property. Oh, and I have a Garfield cartoon: in the first two panels you see Garfield frowning at a salad; in the third panel Jon asks “How’s the salad?” and Garfield replies, “Ask it yourself, I’m not speaking to it.” It’s up there because my officemate often keeps salad in the fridge, but I am anti- most green food.
Most of my magnets are ones I made myself. I took those little painted wooden decorative shapes you get at craft stores and hot glued magnets on the back. I have flowers, animals, all sorts of stuff like that. I also have some little feathered craft store birds and butterflies too. Oh, I also have a Mr. Yuk!
My parents did this in San Diego. I swear one of those things could single-handedly hold the earth together.
As for me, my dorm refrigerator has two magnetic chip clips, a magnet with the main number for Campus Health Service, and a magnet that has both the Wildcats 2004 football schedule, the phone number for the University of Arizona location of Papa John’s, and several pizza coupons that have probably expired. (I think I have enough pizza coupons in this dorm room to feed me and the next few generations of my family for our entire lives. :eek: )
Mine are all magnets from local pizza companies or cards from my insurance agent, realtor, etc. The wife has ones that say Our Lady of the Perpetual Mood Swings and Cute, but Psycho. Makes for an interesting melange on the fridge door.
