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My wife and I used to bicker about our fridge door. We both love the photos, but hated the clutter.
I'm not sure when he made the connection between the fridge and his art work. I think it was in a book we read or something, but suddenly it became a "thing". From that moment on it has become not only a gallery, but also a height chart. We retain a bit of space at the top, wedding mementos and a photo or two. Every other … Read more »
By ASBausch 2 years ago
They say every fridge tells a story. Ours resembles a crime scene report - cold, gross, and filled with unpleasant surprises. Our fridge has always been unbalanced – literally – which results in a pooling of its bodily fluids down and to the left, where they creep out from beneath the vegetable crisping bins and slither out to leave forensic kisses on our now permanently stained linoleum.
After the divorce, the “For Sale” sign in the yard necessitated a bare fridge for clean lines in the kitchen. With my heart stripped bare and half my furniture gone, a realtor’s advice transforming my family nest into a showplace, nothing was exempt from change. 
By lillybrook 2 years ago
Late afternoon sunlight, blazing with Sonoran Desert heat, slips through the slits in the Venetian blinds and ricochets off the refrigerator door, creating a slashing shadow pattern. But the high contrast dance of sunbeams and dark stripes is disrupted when I shuffle into the kitchen, open the refrigerator door and grab an ice-cold bottle of water. I close the door and the interplay between light and shadow resumes, until later … Read more »
By FrancisDiClemente 2 years ago
Although I do use the side of my stainless steel Kenmore behemoth to post saved prayer cards of dead relatives, the ubiquitous grocery lists, scraps of napkins with the names of decent wines I've tasted scribbled down, an invitation to my thirty-fifth high school reunion, a Howard Zinn bumper sticker, and a few pictures of a younger me, thirty pounds lighter and more apt to be smiling, the addition to … Read more »
By JPReese 3 years ago
We've had a "fridge as bulletin board" since the kids were little. We've moved from pre-school paintings to after school sports calendars to prom pictures. 
By JoanInColorado 3 years ago
...who thought this was about the INSIDE of the refrigerator!
By Jeano 3 years ago
Refrigerators, like photographs, are about making things last as long as possible. They’re about taking things with short shelf-lives, like milk or memories, and preserving them beyond their natural spans.
By Hanorah_Slocum 3 years ago
LEFT SIDE OF FRIDGE:
By KeepingThingsWhole 3 years ago
It started with a couple of pictures on the top part of my fridge. Images of family members that mean a lot to me. Ten years later, I have a mosaic and true representation of how much I love my life and how important my friends and family are to me. I find myself gravitating towards the fridge door when I'm feeling a little lonely. I go there when I … Read more »
By ANP 3 years ago
I snapped this pic months before Freeze Frame went live on SMITH. It's one of the many pictures I took of my childhood home before it was sold. Though I was sad to see my house go to another family, I breathed a sigh of relief when my parents moved away. It was I who pressured them to leave. 
By Viv 3 years ago
Uncluttered space has always been appealing to me. A room with very little furniture, a painted wall with very little artwork, a lawn with a single tree all has a certain simplicity I find soothing and easily comprehensible. Seeing a friend’s refrigerator covered in magnetic memorabilia can reveal insights into the mind of the owner best left hidden from view. 
By TF 3 years ago
Our fridge is an abstract study in marital compromise. During years of singledom, I proudly adorned my fridge with magnets from my travels like a boy scout boasts merit badges. In my case, the tackier the magnet the better...an acid green margarita glass from Rhode Island...Pisa's leaning tower, an oh-so-British phone booth, idyllic palmed beach scenes from Peter Island, Tulum, Mystique and Jamaica, a plastic baguette avec beret from Paris. … Read more »
By WishfulWriter 3 years ago
I like my refrigerator. I picked it out when we moved into our house. It's stainless with double door refrigerator top and freezer on the bottom. The stainless aspect doesn't stop the kid art that decorates it from sticking—that's what blue painters tape is for.
When I first moved to London 20 years ago a refrigerator was a humble "fridge." They didn't do big, they did these small, pint-sized little thingys that were kind of cute and held about a days worth of shopping. Come to think of it, everything was smaller-portions in restaurants, cocktails, and especially expectations.
By laurelannechina 3 years ago
I am not a collector of things. I don't have a case with little silver spoons, or a shelf with china cats; I don't have hundreds of baseball cards or a cellar full of wine. My parents might say I collect shoes and dust, and yes, I should probably shop less and clean more. But on the whole, I'm not a person with a fridge full of magnets. 
By reresnick 3 years ago
My refrigerator door is filled with photos of my family, of which I have three: my mother’s family, my father’s family, and my step-father’s family. No matter how close I get to my other relatives, I will always be my mother’s daughter. How do I know? My cleaning lady writes me letters.
By erinrech 3 years ago
If you didn’t know me, you’d think I was a narcissistic alcoholic. My friend Dennis from Texas took a photo of me and created an Andy Warhol-like book cover as a joke and it was so funny I put it up on my fridge. The combination of rows and rows of my faces with a reddish background next to a hot pink postcard from Barneys New York advertising a cosmetics … Read more »
By Elisa_Shevitz 3 years ago
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