2 weeks

I never refrigerate butter...it is left on the counter by the stove to be used for spreading and cooking...according to the food safety guidelines, two weeks...I use a stick a week easily...

A covered butter dish sits beside my bread bin ... the butter is often too hard to spread, but 10 seconds in the microwave gives enough soft butter for a sandwich

Butter will not spread straight from fridge. I cut a small bit off the block of butter and keep it out on the counter, keeping the rest in the fridge until I need to replenish the dish.

My butter sits on the counter. It probably takes half a year to go through a stick.

I live in Oklahoma where it is not cool and I leave my butter out all year round. My summertime thermostat always goes to 80 when I'm not home thanks to a Smart Nest Thermostat. Butter always tastes good and spreads easily at my house

When I was in Hungary my roommate and I constantly had this discussion. She wanted eggs on the counter and butter in the fridge. I wanted butter on the counter and eggs in the fridge. Eggs are probably fine on the counter but the counter space was very limited there and butter doesn't take up much space.

I always have a stick of butter on the counter until it’s nearly gone. I then take another outta the fridge. I never really measured the days. A friend of mine who studied at a hoity toity culinary institute in France sanctioned this approach

Except for a stint living in Albuquerque I've always had butter on the counter in a covered dish.

Depends on the room temperature.

I leave butter in a cool cupboard, in a covered dish.

It's impossible to spread hard butter on bread.

I live in "The Dairy State", Wisconsin and I have always kept my butter out on the counter in a covered butter dish without any ill effects. As my mother and grandmother did before me. If I lived in a southern state, things may be a bit different since it would probably spoil/melt/both faster. As a single person, I only set out 1/2 a stick at a time and it takes a while for me to get through it these days. Here in Wisconsin we have reached that wonderful time in spring when we can spread butter on a slice of bread without wrecking the bread because it's so damn cold....a time to celebrate! ha ha

We always have a stick out. Granted it doesn't last forever but it hangs around for at least a couple of days with no issues. I keep my house at 74 though