If Only Our Refrigerators Could Talk!

A colorful rainbow, a magnet made from the fabric of my dad’s shirts, school photos of the grandbabies, and two of my adult daughter’s schedules—there is one for the school where one daughter teaches and the other is for another daughter’s MOMCO meetings. And, of course, there’s a pad for jotting down the grocery list. Oh….and a Christmas card with photos of my niece and her family.

Those are just a few of the things currently living on my refrigerator door.

So, what does that say about me? Probably more than I realize.

Take a look at yours. What does your refrigerator door say about YOU?

Are you old enough to remember when you checked the refrigerator for the calendar of events and what was on tap for the week?

Baseball practice – check the fridge.

Dentist appointment – check the fridge.

Bunco night – check the fridge.

Even though I depend on my phone for nearly everything I need to do, I’m still a little ‘old school’ in some areas. Notes and photos and the grandkids’ artwork on the refrigerator being one of them. SO, I ponder….

Maybe what's interesting isn't really what’s on the refrigerator at all. Perhaps it's simply that our homes quietly collect our stories in various places. Not necessarily through the things we carefully chose at a furniture store or the paint colors we spent three weeks debating, or even the items we display on our shelves.

Maybe it's the everyday things—the pictures stuck to the refrigerator, the shoes by the door, the favorite chair, the bowl where everyone drops their keys—that truly say something about the people who actually live there.

It is those things that turn A house into YOUR house.

Yet, everything changes, doesn’t it? Even refrigerators. Magnets don’t work on some of today's new models. So there go the photos, the calendars, the artwork, the schedules, the magnets made from the fabric of a father’s shirt.

Most of our reminders and our photos now live on our phones.

Color this gal …. nostalgic.

And while I’m ALL in favor of the positive impact that can come with advances in technology, there's just something about walking past a refrigerator covered with the bits and pieces of someone's life that I hope we don't completely lose or replace.

What is on your refrigerator door? What does it say about YOU? Among the schedules, photos, calendars, and the artwork, what can we  find out about WHAT—and more importantly, WHO—matters most to you?

And if yours is completely bare? Well, I suppose there’s always your phone.

Sandi Downing Real Estate/Keller Williams Greater Omaha

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