What's On Your Fridge?
A friend of mine told me that she thinks it’s so sad when people (especially people with kids) keep nothing on their refrigerators, as in no photos, kid art, magnets, random store coupons–nada. I have to say, I agree with her. In some weird way that’s hard to quantify, a messy fridge door somehow signifies a happy, full, joyful life, doesn’t it? Our fridge is normally cluttered with alphabet magnets, photos, and strange ephemera from 2003. But that all changed this summer when we put our house on the market. Our real estate agent mentioned that we might want to de-clutter the fridge (not a bad idea), so we did. But, it’s funny, I felt like we were taking away some of the life–and some of the love–out of our home when we did.
Now that we’ve taken our home off the market, the fridge is starting to–slowly–return to normal … photos of the boys, a random Trader Joe’s receipt (I bought vanilla flavoring instead of vanilla extract–oops), a watercolor painting Carson made for me and a fabulous white bean soup recipe from Cookie (which we had for dinner the other night). By next month, I am certain the fridge will be back to the good old messy place that is just perfect.
Lynzee
My fridge is a mess and I love it! I live in a house with 3 other girls and we’ve turned our fridge into a quote wall. Every time someone says something that sends us to our knees it gets nominated to go on the fridge. After 2 years our door is now littered with colerful post-it sized squares of paper. Its fun not only for us to go back and read but all of our guests always flock to the kitchen to see what’s been added and hear the stories behind all the new randomness.
Kristen
my boyfriend’s niece and nephews are on my fridge… i love seeing their adorable little faces whenever i need to grab something 🙂 and i agree, barren fridges are completely overrated!
Libby
on my roommate and my fridge there are tons of photobooth strip pictures and tons of poloroids..I love them all! My dads new fridge is non-magnetic so they cant hang anything on it anymore..I think thats so sad!
Emily
Well we don’t have kids, so what we have is pics of our nephews’ weddings (yes, we had two nephews-brothers!–both get married this summer), a scrapbook page of pics of my hubby (with I love you written all over it), letters from the landlord (inspection tomorrow??) and a photo magnet of when Van and I were engaged.
Now that I think about it, I am not sure it would be the same on our fridge if we took those down. good point!