Cupboard Skeletons

Closing a door on an cupboard flips a mental switch darkening the memory of what is inside. Life can progress without consideration of the cuppboard's contents except, briefly, while the door is open to store more or retrieve something from inside. The interior can be as organized or as sloppy as is the personality of the person with dominion over and people using the cupboard, yet, when closed, the contents of the cupboard do not trouble anyone.

The issue of kitchen cupboards with doors is that the many of the contents are in constant use. A darkened memory of the contents and their state as well as their overall organization might not be a positive thing. The doors may serve to keep dust and grease off of the contents of the cupboard, but they also serve to permit those items to accumulate, jumble and inexplicably age. The doors open briefly to put things in and take things out. Refreshing an understanding of the individual contents and asserting a fresh order in the cupboard is allowable to lapse as the doors are quickly closed.

In a working kitchen cupboard, methods of grouping things of similar qualities into nestable shapes would serve to partition large undifferentialed closed space into areas which could be recalled upon sight, and could be denser in space usage than the former placement.