OH yeah, DH always puts the pizza coupons up there, burnt out light bulbs, don't ask me why he doesn't throw them away, pens papers, you name it, it's up there.

I have 3 tea pots, a framed picture of my Golden girl, Remy, and two pieces of pottery. My DH puts his keys and the car key there also. Oh yeah, and lots of dust!

I keep a flat wooden serving tray up there, as well as our outdoor barbeque tools.

I have a really big wood cutting board and a large serving tray on mine. Mainly because they won't fit anyplace else.

Ditto on the kleenex and the phone books in my old kitchen. My new kitchen has cabinets built out closer to the front so I actually use them for cereal and a box of baking supplies.

I used to keep a big old wooden box up there with DD's playdough, crayons, ink stamps... stuff I didn't want her into unless she was supervised... but now she's all grown up so I have a row of old glass insulators there now.

We keep the bread, unopened packages of cookies and chips up there. I do have a cabinet up there but need a tall step stool to reach it. I have done this for as long as I can remember.

As a kid my mother had a bread box where she kept this kind of stuff. I don't have counter space for one of those and what the heck here is a free flat surface doing absolutely nothing.

My huge serving bowls that there isn't room in the cupboard for and the hotpads (not potholders) are on top of the fridge.

Nope...I can't reach the top, so why put anything there?

Well let's see, I have a cabinet over the frig but it's not frig depth so it's pretty worthless since it's hard to reach. I keep some baking things in there like bread pans and who knows what else is in there since I haven't been in there for years and don't reach it easily. So in front of the doors sits my breadmaker, also seldom used along with some junk like a couple extra blue-ice can coolers and not sure what else. Sometimes chips or snacks go up there.

Not much room left for dust!

'what the heck here is a free flat surface doing absolutely nothing' ........Nita, that's exactly what I think, a prime location.

now if I can only remember to dust up there.

Cereal and cracker boxes and sometimes chip bags

I don't have a cupboard over mine either. Right now we have dust, dog cookies, a box of cereal that won't fit in the food cupboard, my lucite cookbook holder, the tray for using on the grill to hold veggies, did I mention dust??

Trish

I keep my microwave on top of the fridge. It saves wasting useful counterspace in my small kitchen.

Yes I am tall, why do you ask? :)

dilly, when my DD went to college she had a MICRO/FRIDGE, a dormsize fridge with separate door for above freezer and microwave on top. She LOVED it.

I have an antique glass sugar/creamer set there. And I use a feather duster to clean the top every week.

Shirley

I do have a cabinet over the fridge but not compeletly. Just enough room to put 5 green glass water pitchers. I just toss them in the dishwasher when they get dusty.

A large ceramic rooster, a small ceramic rooster, a white nesting hen candy dish, a large brown rabbit cookie jar that is sadly lacking of cookies and an antique dust collection! ( I can't reach it, so I seldom dust up there.)

Ditto on the dust!
I also have an antique coffee grinder and very old wooden candle sticks...red candles, presently.

A pretty ceramic jar

Right now I have only a little covered crystal bowl! How did that happen? A horizontal surface with only one thing on it?????

May I add to my list? Right now I have a cat up there! She was hiding behind the cereal box! Geez, now add cat hair to the list....

Trish =)

LOL at Trish.

Since our kitchen remodel last year the only thing above the refrigerator is a cabinet as we had the fridge built in. There are seldom used dishes, vases and whatnot in there. Before the remodel there were two decorative jars. One with candy in it and one with stuff we wanted to keep away from the kids when they were little like matches, razors we used for cleaning and such.

Hi mjny!

This is a timely question...I just climbed a short ladder to clean the top of my 'greasy' refrigerator top and decided that the wine holder with wine (given to us as gifts years ago and we don't drink) in it and a rooster statue (I overpaid for...saw one like it in Country Living and just had to have one like it!) which was really difficult to clean well with all those 'feathers' and decided to sell the wine holder and rooster at a yard sale for 2-3 dollars each and dumped the wine down the sink.

NOW I don't have anything on the top of the fridge and it should be easier to clean and easier to open the cabinet doors behind it without 'stuff' sitting in front of them like before.

The ONLY thing now that may be 'difficult' as I am getting older is having to use the ladder and when that time comes whatever is in the cabinets will have to stay there and the dust/grease will, too! LOL!

nola anne

I have a HUGE pottery bowl I use for stew or salads, that is stored up there, as well as my tea kettle. Otherwise, just some occasional dust. :)

Moni

Yes, a zebra.

Mine is built in. I know there's a LOT of dust on top of the built-in, but I DON'T CARE! Nyah, nyah, nyah!

Trish -- Does your cat leap up there *from the floor*? Our neighbor's cat nearly gave me a heart attack the first time I saw her do that!

Tissue box w/plastic bags, 2 bags of wine corks [I know there's some sort of 'crafty' thing I could do with all those corks....], spare lunch bags, and other assorted stuff that I can't remember why I'm still hanging on .. Oh - but I did solve the dusting part... well sorta... I cut a plastic runner [hardware store] to fit the top... I haul it down & wash it off with soap & hot water...

Yes Chisue, she does. And my fridge is tall too- She tends to knock stuff down when she does that so I was surprised to find her up there as nothing was on the ground!

Trish

Dust,dust and more dust, phonebooks and lint roller and a
game for my grandson.

but of course!

The only thing on top of my fridge, other than dust, is a plant. It is what is left of a dish garden given to me by friends when my DH died. That will be 27 years in December. I can't remember the name of the plant, but it continues to grow and I can't part with it.

Gadget gave me a good idea here. . . I'm going to use my (faux) feather duster to clean off the top of the fridge. Never thought of that!!

Sue

Yes, and I HATE IT!!!!!! However, DH is chief, cook and bottle washer. I have no control over anything in the kitchen. If I did, nothing would be on top of the fridge. we have lots of cabinet and counter space.

A big red apple cookie jar I got for my birthday 37 years ago, and it has been up there that long. I keep a thin white (well off white now) folded (so it can barley be seen and doesn't hang over the edge) bath towel covering the top of the fridge. Every so often I wash and shine the cookie jar, and wash the towel. It saves the top from catching so much grease and dust.

I have the useless shallow wall cabinet over the fridge also. I keeps seldom used items like holiday items,water pitchers and thermos bottles in there.

On the fridge itself I have 3 nested trays with an electric hot water kettle,the coffee grinder and a Cocomotion pot sitting on them.

On the side without the trays is DH's lunch box (a small cooler type).

Nothing It is built in!

I keep my DH's custom cutting board up there. It has two nails protruding from it so he can put things on the nails and cut them easily with his one hand. But it is such a pain, literally, to have down on the counters, I always stab myself on the nails.
Also I have always kept my cordless drill up there, not sure why, put that is it's spot.
I love the idea of putting a towel up there to keep the grease and dust off. Why didn't I think of that?
I think it would be neat of someone came up with a hard plastic washable covering for the top of the fridge. I would buy one!

Trin

LOL Trish!!! When we first got Bud, he would get on top of the frig, and then down behind it!!! Then he couldn't get out. We would pull the frig out so he could walk out. He doesn't do that now.

I have a large ceramic jar that biscotti biscuits came in, that I use for coffee. Also a wooden tray that has a kleenex box, bag of chips or pretzels when we have them, a glass jar that is currently empty. Mom fills it with jelly beans as one of DH's birthday presents.

One day many years ago, we went to a lady's home to pick out an anniversary cake for my in law's 50th wedding anniversary. She had her kitty litter pan on top of her refrigerator!!!!!!

Now as to what is on top of my refrigerator is the same as what is on my tall freezer in my kitchen, empty large baskets and two baskets have great big stuffed chickens in them! Strange I know.

Sue

Marilyn Sue. . . I have to ask. . .did you buy a cake there???

Sue

You know we did! It wasn't up to me to decide it was my sister in law, their daughter that made the decision! I know I will never forget it! That has been a very long time ago.

Sue

Forgot the dust

The top of my fridge is 'decorated' with a string of mini gourds and a pen for my grocery list - no food.

I have 3 boxes of cereal, a clock, a small tupperware pencil
sharpener, some dog treats and a wooden paddle.
It may sound like a lot but it isn't, I have it nicely arranged!!!
Deb

I have cupboards over my refrigerator where I store my seldom used stuff. Like a cake plate/fruit bowl. A Fry Baby, waffle iron.
But between the cupboard and top of refrigerator, I have Toby's Advantix, and his brush.
Leslie

I keep boxed snacks up there. If I didn't, hubby would wear the cupboard doors off their hinges looking for something to munch on. I hate hearing the doors banging all evening.

Don't know...I'm short and can't see the top very well. I do see a cooler type lunch box up there. My hubby rules the kitchen so I'm only allowed to bake stuff and do dishes. No cooking for me! I'm pretty sure there is a "fine" layer of dust up there with the lunch box...ha ha.
Dee in Michigan

There are recessed cabinets above my fridge....empty because there is no way shorty little me could reach them and I can't climb a ladder any more. On top of my fridge is my blue and white speckled roasting pan and some baskets.