drawermnesia

/drɔːmˈniːʒə/nounVerified New

The junk drawer's operation as a household memory system, in which objects are findable only by the person who last placed them.

Ask for the birthday candles and the owner's hand goes straight to the third knuckle-depth; anyone else excavates. Drawermnesia makes the drawer a private index that decays with every addition. Its power fails completely the moment it is "organized".

Etym. — drawer + (a)mnesia — the drawer remembers so its owner must, until even they forget.

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