As any seasoned roleplayer will know - when you're not using your spear you put it in the backpack alongside your spare plate armour, longbow and 5000 gold pieces from the last dungeon you looted ;)

In scandinavian and Finnish churches the porch is called “weapon house”, the explanation I was given at school was that in medieval times people had to leave their arms there before entering the church proper.

Storage, there is the Irish saying of "keeping the pike in the thatch." Also if guarding a merchant moving goods by cart the side of the cart would be a good option

Even storing a bo staff for Karate, we've noticed that it's typically a bad idea to just lean the staffs against the walls because they'll slowly pick up a bend/warp.

I swear to god... Matt is escalating on that inuendos... cementing the silver fox of hema status.

I'm an infantry veteran, I'd like to point out that leaning our weapons together in a "rifle teepee" is still done today, when we don't have anywhere clean to lay our rifles in the field.

"Now remember kids, leaning a poleaxe against the wall can be dangerous!"

Immediately leans poleaxe against the wall

Don Quixote, FWIW: “…country gentlemen or hidalgos who keep a lance in a rack, an ancient leather shield, a scrawny hack and a greyhound for coursing.”

i haven't been able to find a place to put my shaft for years thanks for the tips

I once read in the description of the guard room of a Rhine river castle that the roof beams were marked up from the guards sticking the tips into the beam to hold their pole arms out of the way.

I'm a Russian, i live in a relatively small flat and i have hooks on my (closed) balcony to hang up my skis under the ceilings. Another typical thing is to put them into a corner behind a wardrobe placed diagonally in the corner.
Traditional medieval houses of my country would have cold entrance rooms called seni which would serve as a storage place for instruments and weapons that you could use against some bandits knocking your door. An axe is a thing to 100% be there both for firewood and bad people. A spear or a bow is most likely to be there too, hanged up.

Glad to see I'm the first to see Matt's thick shaft!

In Game of Thrones, when the giant made it into the tunnel of the ice wall, he was attacked by men with swords.  Even then, I thought, "get some freaking l9ong spears and poke at him from out of his reach".

On storing salt near the fire: Smoking salt also imparts additional smokey flavor to food seasoned with the salt. More useful (more noticeable?) nowadays since most cooking doesn’t use flaming wood and needs another way to get smokey flavor. Good alternative to liquid smoke and easily obtained.

Hey I played Skyrim I know how this works, you just put it in your "inventory" and magically pop it out when you need it.  You can even carry 500 weapons at once, you just walk really slow.

In terms of how/where people would store weapons in those time periods I think I would look at it from a practical standpoint and use a more modern comparison. That would be to take another item that people use/wear outside of the residence but wouldn't use inside - take in the not too distant past, hats. There was a time when most men wore hats out of doors and as a consequence a very common home furniture piece became the hat stand/rack in most people's houses. So, I would think at a time when weapons like these were far more commonly carried about outside but weren't inside that there likely would have been some kind of standardized storing method - perhaps not a rack etc, but at least something that would be common to most residences/buildings that people would recognize as where you'd store weapons. So, this doesn't answer how they specifically would have done it, but I just put forward that there probably was a recognized method/place/household accoutrement that was implemented widely for storing weapons - that likely would have been just as familiar to people as a hat rack would have been. Just for the sake of convenience/familiarity if nothing else - as people then were likely just as inclined toward convenience as people are today.

This video speaks to me! At the last LARP event I was at, everyone knew exactly where I was because my polearm would be leaning against the building just outside the door frame.

It’s not the length of your shaft that matters. It’s how you wield it and what you do with the tip.

I'm afraid I can't remember where I saw this but, in one account, they talked about storing halberds outside the  house under the thatched overhang of the roof so that they were protected from rain, hidden to a certain extent but still be a place they could be quickly grabbed.  From the military side quite a few spears in the classical period had spiked butt caps which could be stuck in the ground to keep them upright and also be used for hammering any corpses on the ground to make sure they were dead and not playing possum without damaging the edge of the head.

matt talked a lot about safety considerations when leaning the weapon on a wall, which made me wonder about sheathing. I dont have any experience handling medievel weapons, but i do own a nice axe for wood cutting that came with a simple leather sheath so you can safely carry it. how common were such sheaths for pole axes and spears? you could even oil inside of the sheath to protect from dampness no?