Ever since it became apparent that my cherished collection of original, rare, mint-condition punk singles are worth about the same as a rotten cheese sandwich that for a while looked a bit like Jesus, I gave up collecting.
At least I thought I had until I took a closer-than-usual look at our fridge door. It's completely covered in tacky, magnetic mementos of holidays, a maths set, pen holder, a thing that makes a chicken noise and if you discount the missing Q, the whole alphabet.
Like my record collection, fridge magnets are so completely and utterly pointless that they almost qualify as a niche branch of anarchism (note cheap punk reference), which is probably why I like them so much.
And which is why today I'm going to cash in my token from today's Daily Mail. You can get a free Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Princess fridge magnet by taking along the token to one of four shops. While stocks last! It's a bit of an effort but it's Harry Potter, one of Britain's few successful industries.
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And now for some Harry Potter pics (click to enlarge)
This is the free fridge magnet. (Daily Mail costs 50p)
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