Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have two towels. I wash them and then they go back on the rack. When they frey, we donate them to the animal shelter and buy two more.

I can't imagine having 60 towels. Like being buried alive.

Not when your house is 4000 sq feet.
What is your HHI? I bet you won't answer that.

It doesn't matter. Stuff is just stuff, they clutter the space and take a chunk of your life away.

Anonymous wrote:I think most people have more than 60 towels.

No. That's just your limited view of your slice of SES. I suppose if you counted up every dish towel, bath towel, beach towel, and old towels I use as rags, you might hit near 50, but it would be a stretch and you really can't count dish towels.

I think most people have more than 60 towels.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A towel is a towel

This. We've never distinguished. Whatever towel we have is what get used for the shower, the pool, the beach, cleaning up when you get drenched in a summer storm and come in dripping, etc. What I care about is whether it dries you off properly and doesn't feel thin and scratchy, not what it's called.

Exactly. Is it soft and does it dry you off? Great.

The kids have been using the beach towels for ages. DH and I still use the real bath towels but somewhere along the way, the kids wanted bigger towels and I don't really care what they use so it happened. The beach towels are also hung over the upstairs railing to dry because there aren't enough bars in the kids' tiny bathroom to hold them. That's our colorful life.

Anonymous wrote:Not the pp but I hate having too much stuff and we are a 600k household income. We only have two sets of bedding per bed. I can't see the point of any more. We probably have around 15 towels. Again, can't see the point of anymore.

This is us. The stuff you own ends up owing you. People have too much stuff.

Why not buy the extra large bath towels (bath sheets?)? Beach towels would look nice hanging on the rack, IMO.

I've noticed that my son always grabs beach towels out of the linen closet. I can't imagine caring about this sort of thing. We have a lot of towels, but, um, I'm not going to count them. Most of them are pretty old and many bleached by teens' acne products. Again, I don't care. I'll try to put out a matched/non-raggedy looking set if I have company.

My kids LOVE Disney beach towels for bath towels.
My husband uses a regular towel and I use an extra large bath towel.

No big deal, use what you like.

60 bath towels, washed after every use.

Welcome to Trump's America.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have two towels. I wash them and then they go back on the rack. When they frey, we donate them to the animal shelter and buy two more.

I can't imagine having 60 towels. Like being buried alive.

Not when your house is 4000 sq feet.
What is your HHI? I bet you won't answer that.

+ 1.
The 60 towel household have the space and the money to have 60 towels. I am also sure they do not keep the towels till they start to fray.

Anonymous wrote:We never run out. We have 60 bath towels.

NP here. We have 4 bathrooms, 4 people and around 40 bath towels. We also have around 20 bath towels that are more like linen cloth that we use for drying hair. They are very thin, dry quickly and take very little space. I also use them when I am travelling so that I have my own towels. At one time I worked in the hospitality industry and I am leery of using the hotel towels because I know how the cleaning staff use them to clean toilets, I do not care if it gets washed later.
I was raised with different towels for body and hair, and so one shower will yield two towels. I prefer washing towels after each use.
I can absolutely understand using beach towels as bath towels. We have some of the largest built individuals in this society as well as an obesity epidemic. A beach towel is large enough to wrap around yourself when you come out of the bathroom.
Is it wasteful? Probably. But I am sure there are many people existing who do not shower or bathe for many days and so it all averages out.

Anonymous wrote:Someday I'm going to compile a list of the most bizarre DCUM threads ever. The ones that make me think "Really? Someone actually had so little else on her mind that THIS prompted her to post?"

This will be among them.

+1. I kept reading after the first post to see how much bizarre the thread would get.

Who thinks rhis stuff up? Moving to something else now.

Not the pp but I hate having too much stuff and we are a 600k household income. We only have two sets of bedding per bed. I can't see the point of any more. We probably have around 15 towels. Again, can't see the point of anymore.

Anonymous wrote:We have two towels. I wash them and then they go back on the rack. When they frey, we donate them to the animal shelter and buy two more.

I can't imagine having 60 towels. Like being buried alive.

Not when your house is 4000 sq feet.
What is your HHI? I bet you won't answer that.