That's a painful loss! But at least I'm sure someone else was happy to get your old pan.

It's a joke. Magnets mess with digital storage components.

Back when we still used HDDs they stored data magnetically and magnets would corruot your entire pc

Its how you shoplift cd's. or at least it was back in the day. There is a metal band usually inside the CD or on the back of the CD which has a magnetic metal strip. Running a strong magnet against that strip was how they would disable the anti-theft device. YOU could achieve the same thing using a strong magnet.

This didn't work or tapes or VHS, because a magnet would destroy the content on the tape.

It's my parents', so I didn't have much of an opinion until it arrived

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

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 :(

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.