Oh ~ What a surprise
Has it never occurred to you both that one should buy a piece of cheaper cheese, grate it into an airtight container and keep it in the fridge for when you want grated cheese ~ for example on toasts or to sprinkle over a salad or use in a cheese and lettuce sandwich etc.
For cheese to be eaten with crackers or in slices then buy a better cheese and keep it in a cheese dish. Cheese from the fridge has no flavour anyway. Good cheese should always be served at room temperature unless grated and used as part of something when using it straight from the fridge makes no difference.
We buy our cheese direct from a local creamery. A cheap "blend" which is grated and used as "fodder" for the children and a mature cheese for those of us with more sophisticated, grown up tastes.
I'm on Growler's wavelength on this one. Decent cheese is something to be looked after and savoured. If the "peasants" don't know how to treat it then feed them crap and keep the good stuff for yourself ~ or passing hounds who may call in for a snack