Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

Manifestation, the borrower fairies and a cheese grater!

26 Aug 2025 · 2 min

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In this informal vlog‑style monologue, the speaker introduces a personal theory they call “the borrowers,” describing how everyday objects (shoes, hats, car keys) seem to disappear only to reappear later, often in the very place they were most recently searched. They argue that continued searching is futile and that the objects will return when ready. The speaker then recounts a recent incident where a missing cheese grater reappeared instantly on a plate while they were distracted, which they present as the fastest example of a borrower’s return. This anecdote triggers a reflection on the concept of manifestation: the speaker suggests that the borrowers’ behavior mirrors the process of manifesting desires—by letting go of the need to find something, one may allow it to appear. The narrative serves both as a personal story and a broader philosophical musing on intention, letting go, and the mysterious ways objects seem to “find” us.

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I'm going to talk about how I manifested a cheese grater. Now, I know this might seem really silly, but I think it is sort of a preface into bigger themes. But so let's just start with— I'm not sure if you, um, know, I call them the borrowers. You know, the borrowers, like you, you can't find a shoe, you can't find the school hat, or you can't find, um, the car keys, or whatever it is, and you look everywhere and you can even be nearly sure you put them somewhere and they are just nowhere to be found. So I call them the borrowers and I have learned, look, there is absolutely no point to continue looking because it's not gonna be there even however hard you look. And so I just let it go and I'm like, they'll bring it back when they're ready. So be that, there could be a few different theories as to where that object has gone, but, and it does, it turns up. And 9 times out of 10, it turns up definitely in one of the places you 100% looked in. So that is my theory about the borrowers, um, borrowing fairies or whatever we want to call them. But, um, but, um, the other day I was looking for my cheese grater. I wanted to grate some cheese. Big, very exciting in my house. And the kids had unpacked the dishwasher, so the cheese grater wasn't where it normally goes. I looked where they might have gone, etc. I couldn't find it. Anyway, my daughter then distracted me with something, and I was talking to her, just turned my back, and was still in the kitchen talking to her, whatever. Anyway, then I turn around, and sitting on the plate that I had out to grate the cheese was the cheese grater. Now, that was the fastest the borrowers had ever worked. I, I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, it was like I didn't think about it. I was like, did you put that cheese grater there? To my daughter. She's like, no, I didn't put the cheese grater there. I was like, hmm, okay. So the cheese grater had just appeared. And then that got me to thinking. I think potentially the process of manifestation, like when we want something, I think nearly that's like what the borrowers or the borrowing fairies have been doing. So