Fridge-memory kit

The piece that earns its rent is the one still stuck to the door on a Tuesday in an I-4 apartment, long after the pool chlorine has washed out of the towels.

Test the steel. Choose tin or enamel. Choose a frame or a clip for paper. Leave a palm-width at the handle. Then try the searches at the bottom. Name a city-view or kitchen mix in the catalog and write sales@tabaconda.com if you want a plaque face written for the week you actually had.

What belongs on the door

Enamel fridge magnet — A plaque that actually lives on a kitchen door.

Four objects cover a magnet that actually lives on steel. Keep magnets off the gasket. Leave one rectangle of empty steel for a grocery list. In a hotel kitchenette the door may be the size of a backpack. Skip the frame until you are home.

Kit jobs

Four magnets, four jobs

Souvenir magnet: The thin trip sentence: a civic print, a generic park-day shape, a hotel skyline on a flexible sheet. One per visit. Search fridge souvenir magnet and tin souvenir magnet.
Enamel fridge magnet: A die-struck plaque: metal blank, color in cells, a rim, a magnetic pad on the back. The red fridge plaque is that object: navy rim, hanging tab, color in the face. Search enamel fridge magnet.
Magnetic photo frame: One print from the week. Lake Eola, a hotel kitchenette, a lake edge in Lake Nona, in a small frame that sticks. Not a wall of frames. Search magnetic photo frame.
Refrigerator magnetic clips: A ticket stub, a folded map, a pass for next month. Clips hold paper; plaques hold the week. Search refrigerator magnetic clips.

Tin hold versus enamel hold

Kind	Door job
Tin print	Light, scuffs in a zipper
Enamel plaque	Heavier, holds a photo corner
Letter tile	Toy stack, fridge alphabet

Rectangular tin souvenir magnet printed with a downtown lake, fountain, palms, and skyline

Red enamel fridge plaque with a navy rim stuck to a cream refrigerator door

Tin print. A picture on a flexible magnetic sheet. Light. Corners bend. The face scuffs on a zipper, keys, or a sunscreen bottle. The usual souvenir when the object has to ride in a carry-on pocket and the door at home is painted steel.

Enamel plaque. Color sitting in metal cells, a rim, a pad on the back. Weight in the hand. The face can chip on hotel tile; it does not fold. The usual souvenir when the object has to still look like itself after a year of Florida kitchen air.

Full construction split, side by side: souvenir vs enamel.

Photo frame versus clip for tickets

Navy magnetic photo frame holding a lake-and-palm print next to a red refrigerator clip holding a folded ticket stub on a ribbed fridge door — One frame for a print. One clip for a stub. Leave the handle strip clear.

Frame. Use it for a single print you want to see every morning: the fountain at Lake Eola, a downtown evening, a kitchenette you lived in for a month. One rectangle. In a hotel kitchenette, skip it. There is no field of steel.

Clip. Use it for paper that changes: park tickets, a folded I-Ride map, a takeout flyer, a pass for next month. Clips belong along an edge, not in a pile under the handle. Keep them off the gasket so the door still seals.

Five steps on the door

Test the steel. Press a thin magnet on the door, then on a side wall. Painted steel usually holds. Some stainless skins will not. GE’s magnet-on-door test is the public method.
Place the enamel plaque. Center or upper third. This is the magnet that still looks like metal after humidity. If the door is weakly magnetic, start here before tin.
Add the souvenir magnet. One piece per visit. Date the back of the pad if you collect. Last year’s plaque can stay; this year’s tin is the new sentence.
One frame, if the door is wide enough. One print. French doors in a Lake Nona apartment can take it. A half-size hotel kitchenette cannot.
Clips along an edge. Tickets and maps. Palm-width of bare steel at the handle. Magnets off the gasket.

Grouping lesson with hotel, apartment, and downtown cases: a fridge as a travel diary. Getting the face through a bag and TSA: the magnet that survives the bag. Publisher: Orlando Magnet Company and Tabaconda LLC.