Basements are generally cool and dry. If storing vegetables in basements, provide your vegetables with some ventilation. Harvested vegetables are not dead, but still breathe and require oxygen to maintain their high quality. Also, be sure they are protected from rodents. Home refrigerators are generally cold and dry (40Â°F and 50-60% relative humidity).
Nielsen also says gaming consoles are becoming a bigger video medium, though the numbers remain small. As in years past, we watch more TV as we get older. Children 2-11 watch an average of 24 hours of TV a week, or 31/2 hours a day. That number dips to 22 hours for teens, ages 12-17, then goes back up to 25 for 18-24s. After that it rises steadily until people over 65 average 48 hours a week, or nearly seven hours a day.
While the average amount of time spent watching TV and on computers has not changed much over the years, people are spending more time online on their phones. This year 61 percent of American cell phone owners were using smartphones up from 21 percent in 2010, according to Nielsen. Just because people aren't watching more TV on their television sets over the years, that doesn't mean they aren't watching more TV online. Netflix gained 630,000 subscribers in the U.S. in just 3 months in 2013, bringing the online television and movie site to 29.8 million U.S. subscribers.