Fridge magnets as souvenirs (Vienna, Heidelberg)
by LoriIn each country and almost in every touristic city you can find magnets with different local symbols. These magnets are usually put at home on the refrigerator’s door (or other metallic vertical surface) and represent in fact souvenirs from different trips/holidays.
There are also people that manage to gather a true collection of such magnets. I have a friend that has such a collection – an already impressive one. Her collection includes many bought by herself, as well as many others received from friends who know about her passion. You can travel to many countries with the collection on my friend’s refrigerator door…
Why magnets as travel souvenirs?
- They are small - they don’t require a lot of space to keep;
- They manage to capture a local specific – the magnets are usually illustrated with local buildings or some other special local symbols.
- They are cheap – a magnet costs usually several euros/dollars;
- They are almost a “sure” gift – usually you cannot fail by offering a magnet (alone or together with something else) as a souvenir from a trip.
I have several magnets too – although I didn’t travel very much (but I still have time to change that).
I have a magnet from Vienna, Schoenbrunn palace. I have another one – also from Vienna (Austria) – but with several famous buildings from the capital of Austria. From Heidelberg (Germany) I have another souvenir-magnet.
Sometimes you can find yourself traveling back in time simply by looking at these magnets, remembering wonderful memories from those vacations when you got them. At other times these magnets bring back memories about a friend who brought you a certain magnet.
I guess that these are only several reasons for which magnets are so famous and why so many people buy them all over the world.
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I LOVE fridge magnets
I buy them everywhere, and with my friends we have started the habit of bringing some back for the whole gang. So I have magnets even from places I did not go to.
My all time favorites are still the London ones plus a Frog Prince with a sailor t-shirt, broght back from Corfu
Last year I also brought back home such magnets from Vienna for my friends
All different 
Oh, you’ve managed to remind me that I have a fridge magnet back to my mother’s, a magnet from Greece from a friend of mine
I should bring it here 
PS: Frog Prince sounds interesting
hi Rita and readers,
I love to collect fridge magnet
If you are interested to swap them with me, do email me, ok
wmwm255@yahoo.com
tq
at home we have a collection of fridge magnets, about 200, from all over the world! we even changed the fridge in order to put more magnets!
Wow – amazing collection
If you want – and have the time – send ( by email – loredana [@] prwave [.] ro) a picture (or few images) with them – we will post on Saturday night a post here with several magnets sent from our readers 
hi Ralu
I would like to exchange fridge magnets with u
wmwm255@yahoo.com
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hi i am a fridge magnet collector living in ireland and would love to swap magnets from ireland for ones of other countries. My collection includes: panama, iceland, croatia, usa, sweden, argentina, vietnam, mexico, germany, peru, uk, estonia, turkey, ecaduor, brazil, cyprus, dubai, montenegro, spain, fiji,guatamala, the azores, poland, norway, italy, czech rep, bolivia, chile, columbia, portugal, kosovo, italy, thailand, new zealand, hong kong, bosnia-herzagovina, hungary, denmark, france, barbados, finland, south africa, belgium, tunisia, france, holland, egypt, swizterland, malta, greece, bulgaria, chilie, phillippinies, latvia, slovakia, singapore, lithuania, malaysia other places including the islands of europe
Hi, my name is Cristina a magnet colletor and i would like to swap magnets with you from Portugal, Porto, or lisbon.
kristinnah@hotmail.com
Hi I am from England, anyone who would like to swap fridge magnets anywhere in the world please contact me nigel_plmr@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks.
I invite you all to become members of http://www.fridgemagnetscommunity.eu !!
Hi. This is Mervat from Jordan… Nigel and Ioana dears, glad to meet you here
All, I am looking for magnets from Norway, Finland, Morocco, Argentina… and other countries. I prefer 3d magnets and dolls (national costumes) if interested, please email me s_mervat@yahoo.com