Breaking My Rule of No Crap on the Fridge
October 7, 2008
The kids are loving the word magnets so much that I bought two more sets for them. Doesn’t playing with them count as reading or phonics or something?
I’m sure in a few days I will regret it because the visual overload will be too much for me to deal with. Or the kids will begin fighting over the words in front of the fridge, instead of, you know, other places in the house. Or my 7yr old will put the words up really high so that his little sister can’t reach them. Oh wait, that one has already happened.
Hopefully they will be a little more literate before I reach my breaking point, open the back door and begin tossing random words outside.
Posted by Chris @ 8:05 pm
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These word blocks can turn equally ugly with adults. Just ask my husband…
October 7th, 2008 at 8:20 pmLove these magnets but don’t like them on my fridge,my kids play with them on old cookie sheets in other places in the house,and in the car
October 7th, 2008 at 8:29 pmI love those! But I hear you on the visual overload too. Every once in a while I look at my fridge and panic. But then I just open it and eat something and I’m ok
October 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pmi’d love to know where you got them.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:59 pmI’m wondering where to get them as well.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pmWait til your older kiddos start leaving dirty messages…
or try it with your hubby… it’s kinda fun! lol
Leeann
October 7th, 2008 at 9:33 pmThis is funny, my rule is that the magnets must have a letter of the alphabet on it or it doesn’t go. No political magnets, no insurance salesmen, no appointment cards….must be letters of the alphabet.
hey, wanna to see if you would get involved in our de-lurking tomorrow. I have buttons and codes on my blog or if you want to make your own, that would be cool too, I just wanted to try a de-lurk day since we haven’t done one in a while! Please, Please, Please
October 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pmI LOVE magnets. I’m a magnet junkie. In fact, you might say I’m attracted to magnets.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pmMy fridge is covered in the Leap Frog letters, and Noah recently discovered that they’d stick to the back of the garage door. Perhaps a more attractive place for them?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:16 pmWe had tons of letters on the fridge when the kids were younger. We loved them, but I am glad that they are gone now (the letters). I do like the clean fridge now.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:18 pmThese sort of things always seem like such a good idea at first…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pmeven with the magnets, your fridge looks lovely. mine is covered in primitive drawings and post it notes and lists. one day, when i get it all together, it will be clean.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pmI have two magnet stories:
1) We invited new friends over for dinner one evening, and they saw the very bad 4 letter words that I had spelled out on our fridge. Our son was then too young to read, but our neighbors could. Embarrassing! They still mention it, 10 years later.
2) I noticed one day that many of the magnets had disappeared. They had somehow migrated to the under-side of the fridge, and were stuck there. I discovered that one day (when something rolled under the fridge), and I just left them there. I figure the people who bought our house (and wanted the fridge) still have them.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:25 amWe use the dishwasher for the kid magnets…low for the reaching, out of my sight and still magnetic. As our kitchen is but a wee “U” shape you don’t really see the dishwasher unless you’re standing in front of it. The only problem happens when the magnets are desired and you are unloading or loading…
October 8th, 2008 at 3:12 amwe love these.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:54 amthe little kids have created some great poetry.
my older kids sometimes have a blast with them too.
it makes coming into the kitchen very interesting-you never know what will be on the fridge.
I hear you about the magnets. They are a good idea at first. After about two weeks they have to go. But me and my hubby did have fun leaving ‘messages’ for each other.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:39 amWe want them! Where did you get them?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:07 amThat’s funny, I have no reservations about having crap on my fridge. I love pictures of friends and family up there. Of course I didn’t just remodel my kitchen. My fridge is white.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:59 amThe magnets should stick to the washer and dryer, too, no? If things get ugly, you can just shut the laundry room door. If things get dirty, toss the magnets and/or kids into the washer…
October 8th, 2008 at 12:06 pmThese are a great idea!
I found some of these in the street the other day, but I think they were thrown there by a frustrated adult without children. Maybe he was having a little trouble being creative!
October 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pmI must be just a little bit geeky because when you said you would through random words out the back door, I thought: How wonderful would that be? To have a weather report that today would be ‘just a little bit wordy with abundant sunshine?’
October 8th, 2008 at 1:01 pmI gave some to my mom –she of the no clutter on her fridge rule. But she’s an academician and she put a few of the words on her refrigerator and the next party she gave found all the Ph.D candidates standing in front of the ‘fridge making up poems in magnetic words. She finally had to take them down to get her party back on track…
October 8th, 2008 at 1:03 pmGreat idea…..especially so I can spell out chores for my husband. There will be no denying seeing it since it’ll be there every time he opens the fridge door! LOL
October 8th, 2008 at 1:33 pmSomething tells me that leaving words up where my boys can actually get to them isn’t a good idea…I’m fairly certain they’d find a way to spell “ass” and put it front and center.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:58 pmI’m totally getting some and using them to send subliminal messages to my roommates. I’ll just sort of scatter the words around to make sure it’s not to blatant- like “my milk drinking stop” I can see it turning into a whole new way to be passive-aggressive.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:03 pmI too must be a geek. ‘Cause immediately I started thinking of “words on the lawn” puns…
Total geek.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:32 pmMy new fridge is one of those non magnetic stainless steel models. I’m never going back from the clean fridge look ever again.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pmFridge magnets are so much fun - and, as you say, reading or phonics or something! This winter, we made some word magnets out of magnetic tape, and amused our homeschooling selves for hours. I blogged about it if anyone would like to read what we did: http://stoneagetechie.blogspot.com/2008/03/refrigerator-poetry.html
October 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pmThanks for this post!
Our family started a little game with magnet words. First it started with my husband rearranging something my son and I had put up, I can’t quite remember but I think it was something clever. Anyway, it became a fun game to see what new saying was made out of the words that were available. Every now and then we would put up new words and make more combinations. It was a really fun game! Almost as much fun as our fake poop game (you know the plastic poop from the joke store?) We would take turns hiding it somewhere where another family member would find it! We thought it was hysterical.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pmOh, dont ever throw these away. never get a non-magnetic fridge. Keep buying fridge poetry sets. One day you will find things like:
‘mother of the star skin sugar special’
or
‘mum that will smile a bad winter into summer
the kind that lets your rainbows show’
or
‘to a very good and gentle mother
who makes my dreams bring their good thoughts into the world’
I did.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pmOh, I love these - and the different colors. I’ve seen mini little black and white ones, but where did you pick these up?
Sadly? I have crap all OVER my fridge!
October 9th, 2008 at 7:29 pmI have word magnets and cookie sheets in my classroom. Great fun!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm