to hate new towels?

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well, hate is a bit strong.
but just came out of my bath and am now covered in turquoise fluff looking a bit like a mouldy fish finger and it feels just wrong
it's all in my hair as well.
at least they were fluffy...

New towels are too fluffy. I like mine stiff and cardboard-like, much better for drying

I love hard, rough towels. Can't be doing with fluffy ones. Nothing better than a line dried towel in summer. Scorched dry that you could snap it it half!

oh yes, and they didn't dry me properly.
even though I have washed them before using.
I don't really want to know what they treat them with, do I?

YANBU

I agree. Love a crunchy towel, far better for drying. My favourite hairdrying towel is (possibly) older than me. It is almost threadbare but it does the job just right.

I hate it when people use fabric conditioner on towels too.

I like them a bit in between.
not too rough but not too fluffy either..

Oooh, this is lovely to hear. I thought I was a bit strange for liking cardboard-like, line-dried towels.

You'd all love my house then. I'm on a mission to keep my new towels from going the way of the rest. Sheets of sandpaper are bloody softer. Suppose they dry and exfoliate at the same time but still.

I think the key to a rough towels is to line dry or radiator dry. Don't shake them beforehand and use fabric conditioner.

I'm doing the complete opposite to the above with my nice new fluffy towels.

I hate scratchy hard towels

Never noticed line dried towels not being soft, but it's so windy here they probably get fluffed.

Ooh, I thought I was the only one! I hate new, fluffy towels. They don't do what they are meant to do - dry you. DH loves them

I don't like really, really scratchy ones, either, though. I think they feel like they damage my hair. Sort of medium hard is best..

Line dry isn't totally tough comet but not soft and fluffy like tumbled dried.

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Mine are lovely and hard too. I wash them at 95 degrees.

I still have fluff in my hair.

Oh my goodness - kindred towel spirits!

I LOVE crunchy, sun-dried towels - you can't beat them!

I bought a huge bag of "dog towels" from Oxfam for a fiver recently- some of them are much nicer than our usual human towels!

I actually thought of getting hamam towels, but they all had tinselly stuff.

You should have a selection of hardness when you go to towel shopping. I hate new tea towels too. They don't dry anything either until about the 10th wash..

Fluff.. aaargh!

YANBU.

Im staying at my mum's this week and foolishly decided to indulge in one of her brand new funky-patterned Achica towels. Big mistake. Instead of warming me up and drying me they make me feel colder and wetter brrrrr!

And yes, they are also turquoise...

Well I think yabvvvvu! Although I've never had turquoise hair fluff so maybe I'm being harsh!

I've had to suffer crunchy towels for the last 3 years as DH is a militant line dryer. However since we've been having a new kitchen installed and relying on the laundrette DH has had a Damascian conversion to the fluffy! We may yet upgrade to a washer dryer!

Crunchy towels are the best!!! Years ago, we stayed at mil's and DH ended up drying himself by rolling in the bed as her towels were fabric conditioned so much they were almost totally unabsorbent.

My ds1 HATES crunchy towels though - my DH sticks his in the dryer for five mins every night to make it nice and soft for him. He is a soft touch dad; I just tell my DS that crunchy towels are better and dry him through the complaints.
Apparently I dry and brush his hair better than my DH though

I hate fluffy towels, nice hard towels that actually dry you is the way to go, but I am actually weird and also hate fresh sheets on the bed so probably best not to listen to me!