# What’s your opinion of refrigerator magnets? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274 "2019-08-26T18:21:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/41 "2019-08-27T16:21:06Z")
Full disclosure - and I would never boast like this in ‘real life’ - but I have a very cool house. Someone told me the other day it was like a pinterest board. The furniture is tasteful, the art is unique, the Fisher and Paykel stainless steel fridge is nicer than my car. Fridge magnets are my way of bringing me back down to earth. There’s nothing like a plastic gondola and resin-moulded french baguette to remind myself of my travels, and aesthetic flaws. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/42 "2019-08-31T16:03:24Z")
Most refrigerators here have panels which match the cabinetry. So no magnets on the fridge. But the door jambs are metal, so we have magnets on the door jambs. Until we got them repainted, when we repainted the walls. Then we didn’t want to put the magnets on the fresh paint. 2 years later only one doorway has magnets. The others are unadorned and we got rid of a few of the remaining magnets that we had, because they didn’t have any special meaning for us. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/43 "2019-08-31T16:13:34Z")
> [@glee](#): > > What film should refrigerator magnets advertise? > > Frozen! 😃 > > P.S. Why isn’t the full name of a fridge ‘refridgerator’? The only place I’ve ever seen “frig” in print meaning refrigerator was in the Samuel French script for “The Odd Couple.” Certain cast members were not amused. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/44 "2019-08-31T16:21:00Z")
> [@glee](#): > > P.S. Why isn’t the full name of a fridge ‘refridgerator’? If you wrote frige, everyone would pronounce it fr-eye-j. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/45 "2019-08-31T17:52:34Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > If you wrote frige, everyone would pronounce it fr-eye-j. Uh, I think that says “FRAGILE.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/46 "2019-08-31T21:31:42Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Most people know that most common stainless steel is austenitic and contains more nickel, which makes it non-magnetic. Untrue. Most people have no idea that the word “austenitic” even exists. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/47 "2019-09-01T01:11:42Z")
The rest of my house is cluttered. Why wouldn’t my refrigerator also be cluttered? ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/48 "2019-09-01T03:05:39Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I used to have a set of alphabet letters with magnets in them. I put them on the fridge and would leave myself reminders. You have to get real creative sometimes when you only have one of each letter. > … We had these when the boys were young. Kept them occupied when the wife did the stay at home mom thing and she was doing the kitchen part of her routine. When I had time to kill, I’d do a crossword thing where I tried to use every letter. I recall I succeeded three-four times with different words each time. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/49 "2019-09-01T04:04:36Z")
I have a huge refer magnet collection. Where ever I travel, finding a good magnet is always among the first orders is business. Sometimes I think I go places just to get the magnets, as after I have found a good one, anything else we do seems like killing time before I can move on to get the next magnet. I have some really great ones! Also smashed pennies. Can’t pass a penny smasher without getting at least one or two. Usually I will get all four, which is the standard multi-smasher maximum. (Torture though it be however when I confront a smasher and, alas, I find I am penniless.) ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/50 "2019-09-01T15:10:59Z")
No one else likes [magnetic poetry](https://magneticpoetry.com) on their fridge? That’s the greatest! But it helps to have more than one person in the house who appreciates it. When my son was very tiny, I had magnetic poetry words all over my fridge, and a friend who frequently visited whose sense of humor was as sick as mine. We covered the fridge with perverted sentences hinting at peculiar sexual proclivities. Alas, my son learned to read quite precociously so we had to stop. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/51 "2019-09-01T15:40:27Z")
I just noticed that most of the magnets on the freezer in the garage are from other Dopers, usually as swag in a shot glass exchange. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/52 "2019-09-01T16:24:35Z")
Our filing system is so horrid, we’d never attend to bills and appointment cards without magneting them to our frig. > [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I used to have a set of alphabet letters with magnets in them. I put them on the fridge and would leave myself reminders. You have to get real creative sometimes when you only have one of each letter. [The Denzel Washington character uses them to great advantage in this scene.](https://youtu.be/uAE5QNq25Hc?t=97) To keep the action fast-moving, the director made sure he had two A’s and two E’s. _ **Great movie** _ if you’ve not seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/53 "2019-09-03T13:17:00Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Untrue. > > Most people have no idea that the word “austenitic” even exists. Not true. Most people know someone on the “austenitic” spectrum. Usually a nephew. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/54 "2019-09-03T13:45:45Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Most people know that most common stainless steel is austenitic and contains more nickel, which makes it non-magnetic. Really? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/55 "2019-09-03T13:48:33Z")
We both like them and buy them but we both grew up in houses with them. We vary from a few to covered and often after a few years rotate most of them out and set aside for the future or just for the hell of it. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/56 "2019-09-03T13:54:40Z")
NSFW (aurally, but ok visually) [Go to 1:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s). Well, _somebody_ was going to post it. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/57 "2019-09-03T17:27:05Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > NSFW (aurally, but ok visually) > > [Go to 1:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s). > > Well, _somebody_ was going to post it. Not sure about that; I sort of drifted off after “Forgotten Freshness”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274/58 "2019-09-03T17:38:03Z")
I only have a few now. Mostly advertising on the side of the refrigerator. I think more businesses need to have a magnetized business card. For the right business; it’s the way to go. I can never remember the name of the tree service company that I really liked; or the HVAC company I was happy with. I have both of their magnetic business cards on the side of my fridge. I generally don’t see it, but it sure is handy when I need it. Anyway, I think I had one of the best reasons for magnets. My granddaughters liked to play with them when they come over. 🙂 It was mostly souvenir magnets of the places my wife and I have been but the girls would come over and put them in fun shapes, and whatnot. One day they all disappeared, only to discover my younger granddaughter had hidden them around the house. It was always a special treat to open a drawer and find a magnet stuck in there. That happened over 2 years ago, and we found a magnet tucked away in a drawer as recently as last month. We got a new refrigerator a few months ago, and haven’t put them back on; but the grands are aging out of that now. Nowadays they scream commands at our Echo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-opinion-of-refrigerator-magnets/839274.md?page=2)