Federal officials today unveiled the National Strategic Reserve of Unfinished Tasks, a sweeping initiative designed to safeguard the country’s long-standing tradition of starting things and walking away from them at roughly the 60 percent mark.

The Reserve, housed in a converted office park, will catalog and preserve millions of incomplete projects collected from across the nation, including half-painted fences, abandoned spreadsheets, drafts of important emails, and one extremely large stack of furniture instructions filed under “tomorrow.”

“For too long, our reservoir of unfinished business has been managed informally,” one spokesperson said, gesturing toward a wall of binders that have not been opened since the binders themselves were purchased. “We are simply formalizing what households and offices have been doing intuitively for generations.”

The agency overseeing the Reserve will be empowered to acquire, classify, and preserve any task deemed nationally significant in its state of suspended completion. Early priorities reportedly include the back of the kitchen drawer, the user manual for a router no one remembers configuring, and three separate plans to “really get organized this weekend.”

Officials emphasized that the Reserve is non-partisan. “Procrastination knows no political affiliation,” one official noted, before excusing themselves to look at a thing on their phone for ninety minutes.

Economists hailed the move as overdue. One analyst pointed out that the country’s gross domestic product of unfinished projects has long exceeded its capacity for actually completing them, and that formal storage would relieve pressure on basements, hard drives, and the small mental folder labeled “later.”

Critics warned that the Reserve risked institutionalizing inertia. Supporters countered that institutionalizing inertia was, in fact, the explicit goal, and asked the critics whether they had finished their part of the proposal.

A pilot program will accept the first wave of donations starting next quarter, pending the completion of intake protocols, which have been drafted but not formally circulated. Sources close to the project indicated that the protocols themselves may eventually be deposited in the Reserve, completing what officials are describing as a beautiful recursive milestone.

Future expansions are reportedly under consideration, including a junior version of the Reserve for personal goals abandoned by mid-February, and a fast-track depository for any phrase ending in “I’ll get to it this weekend.”