manualreliquary
/ˈmænjuəl rɪˈlɪkwəri/nounVerified NewAlso in: Anleitungsreliquiar (Deutsch) · manualrelicario (Español) · noticiaire (Français)
The drawer of appliance manuals, warranties, and cables, kept against disasters that never come.
The manualreliquary holds instructions for machines that have already left the house. Its warranties expired during a previous administration, and its quick-start guides are preserved in three languages. The drawer is opened twice a year, everything is understood to be sacred, and nothing is ever thrown away.
Etym. — manual + reliquary — the shrine of paperwork for appliances, past and present.
Rel. — batterypurgatory
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