Where do you store batteries? Someone said to freeze them. We of course, buy a few new ones every hurricane season but I was wondering how to store them for longer periods of time.
I buy $200 worth of batteries all at once twice a year, which is a whole lot of batteries, and I store them in a cool dark room in my basement. When I buy a new set, I donate the ones that are two years old to a nearby children’s hospital, and they use the batteries to power kids’ toys.
Batteries in current packaging generally seem to have an “expiration date” marked on them, and for modern alkalines, that seems to be measured in “years”.