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.

Aww, I know I'm a bit of a cold hearted bitch, but kids pictures on the inside of cupboard doors is harsh!

My fridge has so many drawings the kids have done it's a total mess, but tbh I don't really notice it anymore. The kids just add more things to it when they please, all on top of each other so you can't see what anything is.

My magnets, although you can't see them, say things like M is for mother not for maid, and 'sometimes I wake up grumpy other times I let him sleep'

We have fridge sudoku. Fancy fridge swear word kit.

I used to tutor one of the Stone Rose's kids in their home. They had fridge magnet poetry on the fridge and I was always interested to read it.

I understand. They melt my brain. They get into my eyes, my ears, until I'm breathing them in. They attack my senses when I am trying to get to the fridge. Even worse once paper gets involved. Banned from my kitchen.

And, incidentally, I'm not all anal and tidy. I'm quite relaxed about mess, really. A good thing, because my house is always a bit messy. But there's just something about the clutteredness of a cluttered fridge that drives me insane. It's like wearing a horribly, horribly itchy jumper.

How about a magnetic whiteboard to stick everything somewhere you don't have to look at quite so often? Seems a shame to sully a stylish black fridge...

yeah, we used to have fridge poetry and a really good set of very rude Shakespearean insults... had to bin them before ds learned to read.

Now the fridge is covered in 1001 magnets each holding a scrap of something ds has done or a bill to be paid or an appointment we have to remember.

really urgent stuff gets pinned to the back of the front door so we see it before we even leave the house!

Yay MoChan and IslandOfSodor, people after my own heart at last!

Katymac I do like your ideas for the inside of cupboards for important stuff, may need to deploy that! Couldn't put pictures on the inside though, I'd feel quite heartless.

Might make ds start putting them up in his playroom instead. Prob is there is so bloody many of them!

Connect 10 (or 6 or however many) plastic wallets (you can use keyrings or string or special ring thingies from staples) & fix to the wall

Then fill with pictures; every time a child wants to put up a new one an old one must come down & go in the box......when the box is full is can go in the attic to be sorted at a later time

Love it! Thanks Katymac!

How about a magnetic white board attached to the inside of the lid of a toy box. The kids can use all the alphabet magnets there, display stuff etc and you can shut the lid to tidy up!

read these posts, here is my idea, put pin board in child's room somewhere and get a diary for letters, appts etc?

Don't really need anything for letters and appointments etc, I have an iPhone for that .

Just the school newsletters, certificates, pictures etc. Thanks for the input though.

And besides if I do this, I still have to keep the damn fridge magnets anyway won't I, since they're lovely pics of ds etc

I do not have magnets.... just a giant bob the builder stuck in the centre of my fridge.

Ah the life of a mummy...

YANBU I also loathe them.

Luckily I have a Smeg fridge which has a plasticky coating to the door, so magnets don't stick on!

YANBU hate hate hate fridge magnets.

DH sister keeps giving them to us WHY?

DD1 made one with reindeer that's not so bad...

We have plastic doors on our fridge so magnet's don't work. I got a magnetic sheet thing from Ikea for dd's collection of magnets, but she won't use it and now her bedroom door is fullof crap beautifully decorated inside and out using the magic of blutak (which I assume she pinches from school cos I've never bought any)

We have a couple of white magnetic noticeboards - looks homely but not cluttered. The nice looking things go on there, the boring looking stuff goes inside the cupboard door.

Children's artwork is in another room on a couple of magnetic string things like this:
photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/magnetic-photo-rope

Also, DH spends a lot of time in the garage (aka workshop) and that is a Good Place for cheesey valuable magnets.

FimbleHobbs, why do men call their garages "workshops"?

Mine does too and spends a huge amount of time out there doing important stuff with his Lambrettas.

Sorry, that wasn't about magnets, was it...

My favourite is right in the middle of my fridge, bought for me by my fabulous MIL

"I want it all and I want it fucking delivered"

Genius

I love fridge magnets - I have even got DS a set of his own (5 smiley faces) so he leaves the big ones alone. DH loves them too, so much that he bought 2 fridge magnet picture frames, so we have pics of us and DS on the fridge door. When DS is older we will get the fridge poetry words as well.

YANBU to want your pristine kitchen, but YABU to expect to have it under the circs!

BigusBumus, I should be fair to my DH - he doesn't actually call it a workshop. However it is full of tools and workbenches etc (to the extent that there is no room for a car) and things made out of metal. So in my eyes the perfect place for magnets I don't want. DH spends a lot of time doing important stuff but is banned from anything two wheeled unless its a pushbike. [mean wife emoticon]

Well just think, in a few years, they won't be making stupid fridge magnets for you anymore, and indeed will be embarrassed by you displaying their artwork from when they were young, and then you can have your nice black shiny fridge all clean again.

(makes me just thinking about that, but maybe that really is a comfort to someone more fastidious than I am!)

Oh I also have the Shakespearean (sp?) insults magnets. Personal favourites of mine are "drink coffee, do stupid things faster with more energy" and "have we no wine here?"