Bit of fun....how old is your oldest towel?

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I've towels we got as a house warming gift in 1999 and they're still going strong.

We have some that were wedding gifts in 1984. They haven't been in use all those years though!

2001 - my dad bought it for me when I went to uni. I love it! It's a bit threadbare in places but it's my swimming towel 🥰

2002 but same - towels I took away to university still going strong.

Well the other day I wrapped my grandson up in my DD1's toddler hooded towel.
DD1 is 32
Pretty sure the oldest towel though is one of Dh's from when he joined the RAf...in 1983! (Army green and great for dying hair!)

I've got a towel that I can remember an aunt drying me with when I was 5. I'm 63 now. I've trimmed and re-hemmed the edges, but it is just amazing quality, not at all threadbare!

I’m nearly 25 and I’ve had a towel since I was about 14/15. It’s a shoddy old thing that barely fits me now but I still love it😂

About 60 yrs old. Dad was a coalminer. A 'perk' of the job was being able to buy towels from the pithead shop. One fell apart last year. Another is just about holding together but will join the dusters shortly. (Yes, it's hidden from visitors.)

Two hand towels bought to match my daughter’s newly decorated room… in 1998! One is relegated to the dogs, one to wrap my hair after washing as it’s longer than today’s hand towels.

Also still use a bath towel given to my son by his grandma in 1999.

I still have the towel that my dd, aged three was found studiously cutting in half with nail scissors. “ I am making you two towels mummy” ( proud yet subtle boast about precocious maths skills). Must have been early seventies.

I have a Jonelle towel that was given to my parents as a wedding present 55 years ago. It has frayed on one edge but is otherwise perfect.

We're still using our wedding gift towels from 2005

Loving the old ones. I have one that I had for school, complete with name tape. So over 50 years old

its an towel that was given to me by my mother in 1980 for swimming at school. I was allowed to take it because it was old. I’d guess 55 ish

The towel that my daughter was wrapped in as she was born and handed to me (home birth in 1994)

I’m surprised you can all keep them for so long. I have towels that I’ve probably washed and tumbled thousands of times - the edges seem to literally come off and then they fray until they are like ribbons and completely unusable. So I have to get new ones. All of them are Ikea so I would have thought relatively hard wearing. But not hard enough for what my family puts them through!

I have one beach towel thats from 1995, bought on a holiday in Yorkshire! Other than that I'm hard-wearing on towels die to hair dying and tumbling them dry so the others are much less aged.

1988ish. Bought I think from a towel "factory" in Germany. We went on some sort of tour and then they had a shop at the end. I "borrowed" it when I left for University in the late 90s and its been mine ever since. Its held up pretty well tbh.

I think quite a lot of our towels are older than me (mid 90s).

I have one I got about 20 years ago, daily use (in the main), and is still in very good condition. It’s Sheridan, i think it’s one of their beach towels.

We replace ours every couple of years, so not very old at all.

Some get demoted to dog towels and some I give to the vets.

I have one with “His” embroidered on it. I assume that it was one of a pair which my mother bought, and she died in 1986. I use it when the other hand towels are in the wash.

At least 40 years. I'm one of three so, as a child, to help identify MY towels/facecloths they were always blue. I also have one of my sister's red towels. They're both used to dry the dog now!

I have two towels left from a set my mother gave me when I moved into my first flat in 1992. They have been delegated to the rag/clean-up towel supply but they still exist.

I think that I still have one that I took to university in 1982

Probably no older than 5 years. All from John Lewis, so decent quality but in a sorry state and need changing. We don't have anywhere to dry them except one small bathroom radiator so end up washing and tumble drying them after every use, plus DH uses them to clean the bathroom! I've given up trying to tell him not to - he says if I can do better, do it myself. No chance, I detest bathroom cleaning.

Oldest still in good condition and in the 'standard use' rotation, 1972. Oldest still used for mopping up spills and defrosting the freezer are from the 1960s, but I couldn't be more precise.