For many, bringing home a fridge magnet as a vacation souvenir is a tradition. But before you know it, you’ve got a whole collection of souvenirs attached to your refrigerator.

While they provide a daily reminder of your treasured travels, I want to know whether these precious keepsakes hinder your refrigerator’s performance — or worse, increase your energy bill.

To get to the bottom of it, I reached out to Matthew Glynn, senior product marketing manager at Hisense U.K., to explain whether fridge magnets have any real impact.

Can magnets damage your fridge?

“In short, no, fridge magnets do not affect the performance or energy efficiency of your refrigerator," says Glynn. "The magnetic fields produced by standard household fridge magnets are extremely weak and pose no interference to th

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