It may seem a unusual, but why not collect fridge magnets, people assemble collections of just about anything.

From the first time when the Chinese discovered magnetic materials many centuries ago they could not have comprehended how we would be plastering little magnetic fridge magnet colorfulthingies all over our fridges centuries later.

These days fridge magnets offer a remarkably practical solution to getting out your business offerings, allowing you to recollect your last holiday away and then making us smile when we get the milk from the fridge first thing in the morning with joke magnets.

Fridge magnets have risen to prominence to become a ubiquitous part of family communications.

Fridge magnets were patented by an American, William Zimmerman of St Louis, Missouri in the early 1970’s. His patent covered the use of small coloured magnets for decorative, display and convenience purposes.

Since then, fridge magnets have been used as souvenirs, in home décor, as advertising mediums and as novelty items for enjoyment. Most fridge magnets are fabricated from magnet sheeting that can be inexpensively printed and cut to produce a diverse range of promotional fridge magnets.

in the vast majority of cases the cost of fridge magnets is less than the cost of an average postage stamp and is most definitely an extremely good value for money means for getting across a business’s advertising story.

A fridge magnet is regularly available in business card size, and shapes like cars, pigs, houses and so on. There are quite a range of photo frame fridge magnets and notepad magnets are quite common.

Fridge magnets are a lot like the pursuit of collecting postcards or souvenir spoons.

With fridge magnets there’s that interest because of the huge variety of fridge magnets – advertising, souvenir, motto, and inspirational.

Today’s fridge magnets offer a view to the things we found important in our lives, almost as if they are a lense through which we may see what was important to us in that time.

You see you are really putting together a collection of memorabilia and that’s always been a way to pass the time and possibly profit.

So, understand what choices of sources you have. You can collect them from local businesses, when you travel – buying them as souvenirs, but this is expensive or verynow and again you can obtain free collector fridge magnets from promotional fridge magnet factories.

All have different costs and the path you choose depends on why you are collecting and how speedily you want to grow your collection.

If you need a target and you want to out do the world’s largest fridge magnet collection you will have a ways to go. As of 2007 the world record holder was Louise J. Greenfarb with 35,000 magnets.

So get going if you plan to pass her!