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Tonight I realized that for at least 50 years now, I've been keeping unused batteries in my refrigerator. Why? Because my mom always did!
Anyway, after pondering that for awhile I decided to be a rebel and move them over to the freezer. I figure if a refrigerator helps them last a little longer, surely a freezer will help them last even longer than that.
It made me wonder: Am I the only one out there still following a custom like that because your mom did it? And is the idea of storing batteries in a refrigerator (or freezer) still a good idea, or was that long ago debunked? And maybe the most interesting question of all, what do the rest of you do?
We keep ours in a desk drawer in a bag. I've never heard of keeping them in a cool environment. What about electrode corrosion? We have a battery tester so it's pretty easy to check if they are at full power. My guess is that it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
Never heard of keeping batteries in the fridge. I know cold batteries operate at a lower capacity. I believe that temperature extremes can cause chemical reactions in some things, shorten their life or something, don't know about the batteries tho...
I'm trying to think about something that I didn't rebel, or question, against my mother doing from the age of 16yo onwards, we were always like oil & water, existed in different realities.... honestly i can't think of a single thing I do that my mother did/does. I do take pride in my living quarters, not a man cave type environment at all but rather styled, so perhaps that did rub off. I am distinctly modern & minimalist in approach though & she has always been, er... not that.
We keep ours in a desk drawer in a bag. I've never heard of keeping them in a cool environment. What about electrode corrosion? We have a battery tester so it's pretty easy to check if they are at full power. My guess is that it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
I keep my lithium batteries in a heavy steel pot with a lid, on a concrete floor, away from anything combustible. I charge them inside another steel pot with a lid and never leave the house when they're charging.
I keep them all over the place but can never find one when I need one. Except when I find an AAA when looking for an AA.
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I figure if a refrigerator helps them last a little longer, surely a freezer will help them last even longer than that. 
