Abstract: An appliance guard including a magnetic strip defining a magnetic field of at least two hundred fifty (250) Gauss units attached to a polymeric kick plate defining an outwardly angled bottom portion for preventing articles from accessing the void under an appliance is provided. The kick plate is four inches (4.0?) wide and overlaps about a half an inch (0.5?) with the magnetic strip which is three inches (3.0?) wide, and each have a length sufficient to cover the front and lateral sides of a conventional appliance. A method of preventing articles from accessing the void beneath the appliance and become lost is also provided.