‘Life swap led to my love of fridge magnets’: says UK’s biggest collector

‘Life swap led to my love of fridge magnets’: says UK’s biggest collector

When we struggle to bring back the shopping and dirty clothes from our travels, this Cardiff man got home souvenirs and fridge magnets and has Britain’s biggest collection now. How did he manage to do this?

Tony Lloyd’s recent collection that expands from his fridge to the walls of his house

Although I was thrilled to meet UK’s biggest fridge magnet collector, I couldn’t help but wonder how big was his fridge to accommodate all of his fridge magnets?

Enter his house and the living room doesn’t look any different from most others. The kitchen is where the normal-sized fridge is kept. The color of the appliance peeps through the small empty bits between his collection of fridge magnets. Look on the opposite side and there’s a wall covered with fridge magnets. Similar to this there are three rooms filled with fridge magnets, souvenirs, and flags from all his travels. 

Then we sit in his lush green garden and Tony Lloyd, UK’s biggest fridge magnet collector starts narrating his story on how he started off picking those pretty little things during his travel.

“I was always interested in traveling and observing the arts, crafts, and cultures of the world. A life swap started my journey to becoming UK’s biggest fridge magnets collector”, said Tony sipping on his cup of tea. His family exchanged lives with another family in Australia. This, according to him, changed his life and made him realize his love for fridge magnets.