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LPT: Bring a magnet with you when picking out refrigerators (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lpt@lemmy.ca
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I don't know if this is common knowledge, but not all refrigerators nowadays are magnetic. When going out shopping for one, bringing a small fridge magnet can help you easily rule some models out if you care about that.

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[–] [S] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

I don't think you should be downvoted for this, but I do heavily disagree. A refrigerator is a large wall that 1) occupies eye level, 2) is closed 99.99% of the time, 3) you glance at probably multiple times a day, 4) is usually centrally located, and 5) is typically magnetic. I think it can be a really good organization tool even in an era of smartphones, and while it's not some kind of lone criterion, given two even vaguely similar refrigerators, I'm pretty much always going to take the magnetic one.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    i like to pick up a magnet when i travel someplace new so imagine my excitement when my husband and i decided to go on the road in an rv fulltime!!!

    the excitement that was gone in an instant when i figured out the fridge in said rv is not magnetic and now i have nowhere to put my freaking magnet collection

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, we moved a couple years ago, and now have a built-in fridge, so it has a wood panel in front of the door. I want my whiteboard back :(

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I bet you can get magnetic whiteboard wall material

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yes! I got one magnetic self-adhesive whiteboard film for my fridge from Aliexpress (because it was impossible to find anything like that locally), and I am pretty happy about it. The magnetism is not that strong, but I use neodynium magnet to compensate for that.

    Leaving it here in case you are interested, but I'm sure you can find other alternatives if you search harder than me... https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExyxrXU

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Well, I do not care about votes and magnets. A fridge should be big enough to keep right amount of food fresh and cool. And that's really what matters to me. I've never understood why people decorate their refrigerators like christmas trees.

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