ferrous object such as a refrigerator door or tool box by placing one of the sets of outwardly facing magnetic elements for example 12 1 a and 12 2 a against the object the remaining pair of outwardly facing magnetic elements for example 12 1 c and 12 2 c can magnetically hold directly small magnetic objects therefore one aspect of magnetic holder 1 is that it comprises magnetic elements which cause it to attract or be attracted to magnetic objects a user could for example keep keys on ring 40 and store the keys conveniently by placing holder 1 on a refrigerator door various contact areas 30 lie between adjacent members 10 one contact area 30 1 is formed by a pair of magnetic elements 12 1 and 122 coming in contact with the back side 21 of a member 10 for example as shown in fig2 contact area 30 1 ab formed by magnetic elements 12 1 b and 12 2 b coming in contact with back side 21 a of member 10 a another contact area 30 2 is formed by a pair of magnetic elements 12 1 and 12 2 coming in contact with another pair of magnetic elements.