I was chatting with Bluey [from Bluebird Blvd] recently and the conversation turned to fridge doors and what we put on them – you know, fridge magnets, shopping lists, emergency numbers etc. We discovered that we both use the fridge door as an aid to memory so we thought it might be fun to swap pictures of what’s on our fridge door.
And that lead to the idea of having a ‘fridge pic blog carnival’ [Bluey’s idea] where people could post a picture of their fridge door, with maybe an explanation of what that door says about them. The fun part would be in finding out what other people think our fridge doors say about us 😀
So what does your fridge door say about you? Come join the fun and let’s give Pinterest some competition!
The first pic is a not so great picture of my fridge. The second is an even worse one of what’s on my fridge. This picture shows a part of my step-by-step bushfire plan and I think it screams ‘Paranoid Wench!’ … but I’m not taking it down because in six months time summer will be back again. 😉
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June 12th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
I’ve done it! The blog’s up, the one inspired by your blog. I’ve given attribution and hopefully your blog will receive extra traffic. Cheers
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June 12th, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Just read it John and the prawns will remain forever burned on my brain 😉 Thanks for joining in on the fun.
And congratulations on having the poem printed in a major newspaper!
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June 12th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
it’s intewresting what your fridge blog brings up because though there are poems on fridges — indeed I had one published in the SMH called ‘The Ice Age’ — there are NO poems that I’m aware of on fridge magnets and yet as the comments on this blog show it’s a topic ripe for the picking. In fact, if I can find it I’ll post it
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June 12th, 2012 at 7:50 am
what a wonderful concept. I don’t have a camera but hang on for a sec and I’ll just dash out to the kitchen to have a look. Well, there are photos of the grandkids, emergency numbers and contact details for a few slow-food outlets
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June 12th, 2012 at 9:12 am
Oh I love that! I put stuff on the fridge so it’s always in front of my eyes as I come and go all day. Having photos of your grandkids on the fridge means those little faces are always beaming back at you. I like your fridge door very much 🙂
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June 11th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
I took a photo of mine and now I’m determined to clean it up. Although I did find a business card from a cafe in Rome. I think it’s the one with the back cherry gelato. Not that I have plans to go to Rome in the near future….
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June 11th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Oh no don’t clean! This is turning into a wonderful, cathartic experience that’s allowing me to love my fridge, warts and all. Besides, you never know when fate will send you back for that black cherry gelato. It sounds so delicious I’m drooling just thinking about it.
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June 11th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Oh no don’t clean! This is turning into a wonderful, cathartic experience that’s allowing me to love my fridge, warts and all. Besides, you never know when fate will send you back for that black cherry gelato. It sounds so delicious I’m drooling just thinking about it.
Hey! You have to post that fridge pic somewhere! Think of it as a domestic monster 😀
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June 11th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I have been suggested to post a pic of my fridge to you.. where do you want it?
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June 11th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Hi Jennifer! Post it on your blog and then put a link here in comments.
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June 12th, 2012 at 8:53 am
ok, will do. 🙂
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June 11th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
[…] at Meeka’s Mind and Bluebird Blvd they decided to have a blog carnival so we could all share our pictures of our […]
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June 11th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
If there are any lurkers out there come in and join the party because you are going to find some most unusual things here. -points at Metan’s post- 😀
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
I checked out my fridge straight away and all I found was ‘Wash Me’ written in the dust on the door. The worrying thing was it was written in Ogham.
xx
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
lmao – I had to look that up. Old Celtic huh? Was that Lady J leaving you a subtle message or was it one of the ‘girls’?
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June 11th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
I don’t know how I managed to post a link twice, but please forgive me! And feel free to remove one of those links! Dag!
If I still lived in Los Angeles, or any area where there are seasonal brushfires, frequent flooding, tornados, and so on, I would also leave up a list of what to do in case of an emergency year round. Seriously. In fact, I would have copies of this list posted in cabinets all over the house!
Your fridge makes perfect sense to me, Meeks! I’m so glad we decided to do this! I hope more of y’all will join us in this refrigerator blog tour carnival hoop-la!
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Me too! I left a nice long comment on your post so I’m dying to see where this all leads. 😀
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June 17th, 2012 at 3:01 am
Well, we know now that it leads to interesting places. What are we going to do next? That’s my big question! 🙂
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June 17th, 2012 at 9:36 am
Fame! Fortune! Multitudes of admiring fans… Dammit the coffee has finally woken me up! Happy Sunday morning Bluey. 😀
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June 17th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Aaaaaand now I’m cracking up. It’s six p.m. on Saturday night here. This day has been one long tangent. But your comment? Just made my day a thousand times better. 🙂
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June 17th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
lol – I credit the coffee for that!
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June 18th, 2012 at 4:50 am
Oh, coffee, is there anything you can’t do? *Laughs*
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June 11th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
[…] Want to see the inside of Meeka’s ‘fridge? Here you go! Fridge Pic Blog Carnival! […]
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June 11th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
[…] Want to see the inside of Meeka’s ‘fridge? Here you go! Fridge Pic Blog Carnival! […]
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
-giggles- after the pristine state of your fridge I am /never/ going to take a pic of the inside of mine! The food’s all fresh though and I think we could have a cooking fest one of these days 😀
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June 11th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I’d always had fridge envy of those people who owned fancy silvery refrigerators with ice makers in the doors. A couple of years ago my old fridge died. I found a bargain silver fridge at a discount electrical shop. It had a few dents but so what? I got it home and found out to my horror, that magnets don’t stick to it! So now I have this bare, sterile-looking refrigerator and have had to learn to use a diary. It probably serves me right!
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
OMG! Jennifer that’s awful
I can only imagine how hard that must be. I’d be lost without my nice metal fridge and all those handy magnets. I do however envy the ice-maker!
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June 11th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Aaaaand I laughed hysterically for three minutes. GImme a little bit and I’ll put up my ‘fridge pic! (Meeka, this is your genius idea!)
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Bah humbug! The idea of going public is all yours :p
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June 17th, 2012 at 3:02 am
Why do I think we’re going to be politely disagreeing about this for years? That’s wonderful! *Starts laughing*
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June 17th, 2012 at 9:33 am
@ Bluey. Yes, we could develop this credit/blame thing into a real comedy act a la Abbot and Costello!
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June 17th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Oh… so many possibilities. It really *was* your idea, by the way. : )
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June 17th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
:p
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June 18th, 2012 at 4:50 am
It’s true!
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June 11th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Your fridge is so neat! Mine is lost beneath school canteen menus, sports day notices that I should have already attended to, novelty magnets and faded receipts. What would we do without that big white noticeboard. 🙂
One of the first posts I ever did was called fridge worship and was about how much we love this common household god!
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June 11th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Do a post on it Metan! Or send me a link to the one you’ve already done 😀
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June 11th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
http://picsandstuff.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/fridge-worship/
and I’m just doing my fridge post now 🙂
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June 11th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
-grin- I just read it and laughed at what your blokes think should go in a fridge! I’m having even more fun with this than I thought I would!
Now I’m just praying for someone with a shiny, perfectly organized fridge to put us all to shame 😉
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