Mold is growing on my cheese, what is common practice? I love cheese and I am always buying and trying new types. Because of this, my cheese stash starts to grow faster than I can eat all of it. Sometimes mold starts to grow around the outside before I get to it, particularly the cheddar.  

I practice good storage techniques to no avail, still the mold eventually shows up.  So when this happens, I just trim the mold off and move on, but some of my friends think this is "so gross" and I should just throw it away.  

What do you think?
I cut it off also. Don't tell your friends you do it. I have heard you can freeze some cheeses, but I think it looses flavor with freezing. flavor is after all why you buy and eat cheese. have more cheese tasting parties.