AIBU - To absolutely detest......................

[mumhadenough]

Fridge magnets?

I hate hate hate hate hate the things!!!!!

But now I am a mother, I find myself with six of the damn things on my fridge. Some of which ds has made at various points throughout primary school, with pictures of himself in etc. I don't have the heart not to put them up.

I also now have bits of paper that must be displayed. Certificates for good behaviour (so very rare that they must be celebrated!), school newsletters and other things that need to stay in sight.

My beautiful shiny black fridge has been defaced with the horrible things.

I would love to think, get a pinboard, that'll be better. But trust me, there is nowhere in my house that would "suit" a pinboard.

So I guess, I must just have to suffer? .

Woe is me.

Stick a pinboard to the side of your fridge?

Hmmmmmmmmm, no can do, its full built in with a bridging unit. (Or whatever its called).

YABU , I like magnets, and the pictures that DS has done stuck to the fridge, and the couple of photo magnets that I have.

I love them. In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, she comments that you can tell someone's state of mind from their fridge magnets. I am inclined to agree.

My favourites on my own fridge are 'Lord, if you won't make me thin then please make all my friends fat'and 'Beware, I have personality defects and I'm not afraid to use them'.

Now you know everything you need to know about my state of mind!!

my favourite one is 'you can't scare me I have children' Ive also got the 'Lord, if you won't make me thin then please make all my friends fat'

Lol they're good.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE pics of my son, of course i do. I also love his drawings and certificates.

BUT, my kitchen is beautiful and shiny and black and glossy. Any my fridge is messy .

Yes I'm a saddo .

I remember going to someones house and the whole fridge was just covered in magnets, not a space to be seen. The person in question actually knew if someone had been moving her magnets . I had to run away screaming before I had a nervous breakdown. lol

oooh I love fridge magnets! It's now become tradition that we buy a fridge magnet when we go somewhere for a family day out, so the fridge has lots of nice memories on it. But then I don't have a stylish fridge [wink[

Emkana, we do that too. Cheap and happy memories.

mumhadenough I also know if someone has been moving my magnets. In fact people used to move them around thinking they were bloody hilarious. They were not. It wasn't me was it?

I've also collected magnets from around the world (sadly not places we have been, but from others who went on holiday) We had to tell people to stop as we ran out of space and I have taken them down. Now we collect keyrings as a momento to the places we go. Mt friends think I'm mad so I'm glad others do it too.

YABU

Apparently once you have kids, you have to incorporate mess. I have to. So you have to.

oh, and, apparently if you like things like tidy fridge fronts, you are basically that woman in American Beauty. A cold hearted bitch.

I would love a tidy fridge front.

Pinboard on the inside of a cupboard door

Oooooooooo that must be it then. I wish I was a cold hearted bitch lol, wouldn't let so many things bother me.

You lot are making my teeth itch with your tales of fridge magnets galore. lol

I am obviously in a minority here aren't I? Coldhands, are you in Glasgow? If not you have an equally strange freaky obsessed counterpart up this way.

Think I'll go and put them in rows or something, make myself feel better . I cringe at the though of another ten years of, brrrrrrrr, fridge magnets.

Oooooooooooooo Katymac! You might have something in that!

YABabitU

Dozens of fridge magnets is rubbish - cull them when they are in school and cannot retrieve them from the bin.

My favourite atm says Being bitchy and unstable is all part of my mystique - given to me by one of my best friend who has supported me through a really shitty year (when I have had moments of being a loon!) and it always makes me smile

yabu

i love them - tackier the better

i have all the kings n queens of england on my fridge

Maybe I need some inspiring or funny ones, that's probably the problem. At the moment I have a picture of Ettrick Bay in the Isle of Bute in a shite bit of plastic, one of ds inside a tulip (I can deal with that), one of ds with santa in shite plastic (again can cope), a duff beer bottle , two bits of magnetix and I can't remember what else without going to look.

That is really tacky SUADYG. I honestly could not have them in my house never mind my fridge. (Sorry, but true) and I'm Scottish so wouldn't have anyway! lol

You can barely see my fridge for magnets/certificates/photos/bills/reminders etc. I have to lift up bits of paper to open the thing, but I like it that way - all the stuff hides the dirt and fingermarks.

Our fridge isn't magnetic (or whatever the word is when magnets won't stick to it), so if we occasionally get a home-made magnet thing we stick it to the radiator, or sometimes on the tumble-drier in utility room.

We display most certificates and swimming badges on the wall outside DS's bedroom, and just use a small section of kitchen wall for new or extra special things.

YANBU. I hate them too.

I have one calender, an organised Mum one on my kitchen wall. Things that need to be kept like school letters with important info on, tickets, invitations go in the back of the calender. The weekly newsletter I save for 1 week in the calender then it gets binned.

Artwork gets put in the kitchen drawer or tucked nto the calender for a limited time, then I cull. A few bits get saved in a box on top of the wardrobe, the rest gets binned.

Put good stuff on the inside of the biscuit cupboard (so child sees it often & thinks you do)
Put important stuff (appts etc) on the inside of the mug cupboard (so you see it first thing)

We also have that fridge poetry stuff. So far I have composed "Your Mother is Right".

no no no they are portraits from the National Portrait Gallery - is cultural