When you go into a tourist gift shop what’s the first thing you see? OK, maybe it’s postcards or keychains, but within one glance around you surely see a display of magnets.
It’s fun to collect magnets from around the country or world. Each one tells a story of the place you’ve visited – perhaps they’re made from a certain material the area is known for (a carved wood magnet, a geode, etc.). Or perhaps they’re little bottles filled with sand from your trip down to the Florida Keys.
When you travel, do you buy souvenir magnets for your fridge? After you vote in the poll, please leave us a comment and tell us about your collection, or your favorite magnet. Thanks!
Frig has plastic styled door fronts. On my previous RV Had to replace frig. Rather than purchase the door front. I covered the door with dry erase plastic and along the top. I inserted a thin sheet of metal for magnets.
This enabled us to use the door for notes and posting, just like at home.
Good idea, Tom
in the beginning we would purchase coffer mugs but we soon ran out of room for them at the house. we then switched to souvenir pins.
They won’t stick to my fridge. They do however stick to my vent hood, which is now completely covered. I’ve probably bought my last magnet souvenir.
Yes then hit a solid pot hole and finding them everywhere. So they get transfer to the S&B fridge upon our return. Smaller and better than another t-shirt or a coffee cup.
Pictures are the only souvenirs we take.
Used to, but after bags full of Fridge Mags (and a reminder from kids that they are “60s clutter) we have backed waaaay off of posting them.
We used to but since we downsized we don’t have room for any more. We now display what we have on a couple of magnet boards that we attached to the walls.
I buy spoons for my collection in my non-rolling home.
The rv fridge who hold magnets but it is full of decals..
I do not buy magnets,but I do buy bumper stickers that I put on my trailer.
Yes, but only the states I’ve driven my RV through, which usually consist of an overnight stop.
Mostly National parks and historic sites
Had to laugh at this one. No we don`t collect refer magnets but I had to answer Only with special meaning. Somewhere along the way my wife found a John Wayne magnet. Yes it adorns our refer in the TT. Only one, but its special.
Our fridge has a plastic face, so no magnets there, but, we do have a very few on the oven. Since I hang my kitchen towel on the oven handle, they’re mostly around the edge so we can see them.
Personally I don’t. But the wife buys them by the truck load.
My wife’s (Mary) plan. If we get to someplace that has magnets and she likes one, we buy it. During that season and at least that excursion, it will get parked on the reefer door. When the season is over they will get moved to the location on a magnetic map in the living room. Actually, that map has been out of room for a long time now so most are on the perimeter with a little sticky number and a note arrow with the matching number is on the map for the location. I thought about getting a larger map, but that would need a larger wall than we happen to have available.
My husband collects magnets from all of our travels…in the U.S. and around the world. He puts them on a metal sheet covered with wall paper that he hung on a strip of wall in our house. It is always a conversation piece when people come to visit. It is fun to look at all the magnets and remember the places we have enjoyed.
Yes and white oval National Park stickers. It’s an obsession and probably a mental illness. But I enjoy it.
No on magnets but we do buy souvenir pins which we stick on a cloth covered Styrofoam block that used to reside in our class C motorhome until we downsized to a class B.
I have several “freebie” refrigerator magnets.
Shot glasses and those little spoons are our preferred buys.
One for each state we camp in.
Yes but they must be made in the USA not just designed in the USA as we often find in the USNP
Wife likes to do a separate travel Christmas tree. I add hangers to magnets and other souvenirs to make Christmas ornaments. She relives the memories when decorating the tree.
Magnets won’t stick to RV or home fridge. So we bought a hand carved walking stick and now purchase the medallions to nail to it. Can just lean it in the corner, hang it over the door, etc.
We have to affix them to our home-based fridge, and the oven in our RV, but yes, we do on occasion buy them.
We buy stickers and we put them on a whiteboard. I don’t like sticking anything on my Motorhome. We have our state map on a whiteboard also.
No magnet here. We buy t-shirts instead.
Okay, I admit we have one National Park monopoly board game.