>If you tend to not cook yourself or avoid animal fats like the majority of people I could see butter usage not being that high.

Yeah, I guess that's the rub for me. I will generally use olive/vegetable oil whenever possible and I don't cook to the extent where I have a bunch of unavoidable butter recipe's to begin with. I keep a small bin as a general "just in case" measure but I sometimes don't even go through that.

Also only have a small freezer, so the thought of freezing butter simply never occured to me.