shrot

Derived from the German word of schrott which means 'metal-scrap/metal-junkish'.

Usually used to describe 'useless' things/junks that can't really be discarded because it's:
(1) weirdly precious/treasured
(2) probably become usable/precious in the unknown unforeseeable future
(3) needed for the most nontrivial/hilarious reasons.

Which resulted in the keeping of it for an unreasonably long time.

"Your workbench, its full of shrot! Can't you clean it at least a bit?"
"Don't do anything to the shrots I kept in the corner of the room."
"That wrinkled empty yellow envelope in the desk is my shrot."

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