2023, Art, home, Kids, Mysteries

Fridge Update

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Had my annual check-up yesterday.  Nothing momentous and I was only gone from the house for about an hour and a half.  When I got home, bearing Taco Bell, YA informed me that she had taken the handles off the refrigerator to wash them.  Apparently when she wiped the handles down, she felt there was dirt in crevices that she couldn’t get to without removing them.

I’m torn.  It’s nice to know she’s handy and can figure things out (apparently there was some YouTube assistance) but there’s also bewilderment that she would be driven to this task.  I’ve looked closely at the handles and honestly, they look the same to me as they did this morning.

Refrigerator magnets/artwork – yeah or nay?

28 thoughts on “Fridge Update”

  1. Our stainless steel fridge is only magnetic on the sides, which leaves limited space for anything
    to be displayed. All we have on the front of the fridge are fingerprints.

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    1. Well, there is a newspaper clipping of my father giving a Memorial Day speech at the Luverne High School, and a magnetic pen and pencil holder.

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  4. I took down the photos long ago, and now have just some
    – pretty flower magnets,
    – Snoopy on Doghouse,
    – cat looking you in the eye, caption “There Is No Truth”
    – chart of this year’s full moons

    and on the side, informational things like
    – heart attack and stroke symptoms
    – Winona bus system route and Library hours
    – news clipping of a Storytelling event happening this weekend

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  5. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    I have family pictures and events posted on my fridge: My niece’s upcoming wedding announcement, my cousins daughter’s wedding invitation, grandchild pictures, my auth’er obituary and a picture of my mother. The magnets chronically fall off. Then there is a magnetic church key (bottle opener) stuck there where I can find the d**n thing that disappears a lot.

    I am in agreement with Bill—magnets are a conspiracy. I am sure Hillary Clinton is involved with that. She has nothing better to do with her life (aside from laughing hysterically at the “lock him up” chants taking over right now).

    OT. I must vent. I just encountered the world’s worst website for Sport Clips Barbers. Lou could not get it to work, and I thought he was not doing something correctly, Man, was I wrong. Surely they are losing all their business with that mess. I you own stock in that company, sell, sell, sell.

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    1. Sports Clips and other sports-themed barbers are one of my worst nightmares. As a kid, I used to dread going to the barber because they would ask me sports- related questions and I knew nothing about sports.

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  6. Yes, I admit it. It’s surprising that the fridge doesn’t fall face forward from the weight of everything magnetic and/or postcards; business cards; bumper stickers; crocheted flowers, fruits, and vegetables with magnets hot-glued to the back; bottle openers; magnetic business cards; and pool schedules. I used to have those magnetic poetry words all over it too. I don’t sit in front of my refrigerator for poetic inspiration though, so I put it all away.

    Answer to yesterday’s question is yes, I put red wine in my tomato and vegetable pasta sauce.

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    1. I should’ve shown a picture of the side of the refrigerator as well. Because there’s plenty more magnets and calendar stuff over there as well. I would probably do this on my own, but YA feeds into my mania that everywhere we go, we get a magnet.

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  7. Magnets and stuff, yea. We don’t have artwork–the paper posted on the fridge consists of coupons for Parkway Pizza and the City of Mpls recycling schedule. However, we have a whole slew of magnets. My roommate’s collection includes Michelangelo’s David’s eye, nose, ear and lips, a chibi jet plane that makes the sound of takeoff (good for bewildering cats) and a magnet of an Onion headline that says: “Kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day.” My assortment includes a photo of the head of a statue of Sulis Minerva, a chip-carved disk found at Ingebretsen’s, and a fortuneteller’s booth that alternately announces “It’s in the cards” and “It’s not in the cards.” There are also magnets from the vet, Wildlife Rehab, Irish on Grand and Cecil’s Deli, and on the side of the fridge are magnetic hooks with various potholders. Oh, and the nameplate off my one and only office. It was half my workspace and half storage for old files, but it had a door and I really felt like I was coming up in the world. I don’t miss temping, or working downtown, or being 20 floors up, but I did love my little office.

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    1. I have one of those old David magnets with the various pieces of clothing on one side of the fridge. They don’t make that magnet set anymore so I think of it is vintage and special. Most of the “artwork” it’s either from some of the neighbor kids or my next-door neighbor, Rita, who does watercolor and is very talented.

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  8. On the front of my fridge – smallish magnets from 26 countries (1 per country). They are nice reminders of some wonderful trips with the bonus of being inexpensive and very easy to pack.
    Also have a MN Lynx game schedule. On the side – a calendar (which I make every year on Shutterfly using my photos), a couple of cartoons, a few flat magnets from US National Parks, a few magnetic business cards, and a small magnet with a female mouse in a nurses uniform, holding a syringe, saying “Nurses call the shots”.

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  9. Nothing on the front of our fridge. I wonder if it isn’t, allegedly, non-magnetic? But the sides: One side is 1/2 covered so it only has the letter opener and some minor things. There’s a wall there that holds lots of VIP things. The other side of the fridge, in the kitchen, next to the counter: recipes, clever magnets, the meat temp thingy, and misc stuff…

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  11. I have one of those mini fridges in my office. Nothing on the sides, but the top is covered. Desktop computer sits there, (and on top of that a rolodex, (yes, an actual rolodex), phone book (which I guess I could throw out; haven’t used it in several years.) and some training books.
    Next to the computer is a multi-meter, various charger cords, and usually a snack.

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  13. I have acouple of favorite magnets by a local artist, Jeffery Gauss, who has a shop in Minneapolis….or maybe had a shop, don’t know if it’s still there. One magnet I got from him had a reproduction of a sign from a favorite chocolate shop, Maud Bourup. He has lots of magnets from famous Twin Cities landmarks. His Etsy shop is https://www.etsy.com/shop/magneticoriginals/

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      1. this house has a refrigerator with the stainless steel front. I think we might have an old calendar with the daughters picture from graduation on it. I recall it was high school graduation so that makes the picture six years old no art to speak of the garage refrigerator used to have art, if it does today it’s very sparse and not very artistic. I love art wherever you can find it. Where were you can find room to put it up I’m not real big on flour magnet shit hold the grocery list but it is possible to find artistic stuff to tweak you, as you go through your day and a refrigerator. Great spot for it .

        as for why a fixing the refrigerator door handles God bless her don’t rain on her parade at all. Let her go. It doesn’t matter one of the doorhandles needed cleaning. It’s nice to her brain works that way and that she’s willing to try to do something new and improve the world she lives in that’s how we get from point a to point B is figuring out how to do it differently than it’s being done right now

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      2. remind me to get my friend, Steve Gross I would come back home and he would’ve let himself into my bedroom and in order to find something to occupy himself with he would take apart my radio and put it back together partially he does have a few pieces left over but his brain just work that way today he lives down, watch city on a river that he have to hike about a mile back into his house to arrive add and his house full of bullshit that he has constructed and toys that he has figured out how to play with river wilderness. That’s the way he does life you got a lot peoples brains work that Way

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