I was in a sewing machine store having foot pedal rewired, glanced at his display of thread, and asked him how long thread was good.
He said a year. I just looked at him. He elaborated and said he even had ladies who put their thread in a ziplock bag with a damp cotton ball & stored it in the freezer.
The hair on the back of my neck rose.
Freezing would totally stress the thread. If fibers only lasted a year, there would be no 100 year old quilts or fabric around, and most of us would be naked, scrambling to find new clothes all the time if this were true.
I decided then & there I would never go in that store again.
sheesh.