years of living with add has conditioned me to make a mental map of things in the house because having to search for things means entering a terrifying minefield of distraction rabbit holes   my wife does not understand how i can remember that the tube of tomato paste is on the top shelf of the cabinet to the left of the stove in front of the bread tins to the right of the empty water bottles with the red cap of the tube facing the stove   also i know op’s search process well - except i usually don’t stop searching until the important thing is found which can take hours