Perplexed and Disappointed About The Future

We replaced our early 1990’s white side-by-side refrigerator with a new energy efficient stainless steel French door with the freezer on the bottom refrigerator. With some top marks from consumer reports, a black Friday special price, and dimensions that just fit into the place of our old refrigerator, it was an opportunity we couldn’t pass up. However, what I didn’t count on was our refrigerator magnets not sticking to the stainless “steel.” I thought I was losing my mind; I even got out some stainless flatware just to confirm magnets stuck to them. All our magnetic clips holding child art, letters and pictures, magnetic pegs holding grocery lists, bills and checks to deposit, all our memento magnets, and business cards and, pens, calendars that adorned our old refrigerator and gave it character have lost their place in the world. The engineer who came up with this energy efficient carbon fiber, metallic looking epoxy clearly forgot that a since a refrigerator stores food it is a family gathering place so it has family gathering uses besides getting some milk for morning breakfast.