.. to only like thin, hard towels?

[NotTheBelleoftheBall]

We have a broad selection of puffy, fluffy towels... they look smart on the towel rack, but I hate them.

I have a secret stash of old, hard, towels, shoved at the back of our linen cupboard, two dating back to university (18 years) I still see them as pink and violet. To give you some idea of how old and weathered these towels are, DH thought they were both meant to be grey until I asked him if he knew where the pink one was. I also haven't school swimming towel (which must be 30 years old).

I also quite like a hamam towel (basically a large tea towel).

Is it just me? Am I some kind of masochist? Or is it established fact that fluffy towels are good for looking at, but gnarled ones are better for drying?

Ha! You're not alone. We don't have a tumble dryer or room outside so all our towels dry into a crisp, stiff shape. I love that first use of a rough towel. And the pp is right - once they're soft they need washing!

YABU I'm not sure we could be friends!

Sorry!

I always love the look of fluffy soft towels, up until recently I had used towels stolen from my parents giant airing cupboard which were at least 10 years old and had never seen a tumble drier so we're practically like cardboard. My GM gifted us some new fluffy white ones when we moved into our house and yes they look lovely but are bloody useless at actually drying you after a bath or shower. I also think the crispy ones exfoliate my skin as well as actually drying me properly so we are returning to them, I just wish I could buy some already crispy as the old ones don't match and I can't be having that displayed for all to see

I have found my people!

I agree OP, can't stand soft fluffy towels.

As plenty of posters have said, soft ones don't absorb water properly. Whoever said they give them to guests - nooooo! What have guests done to deserve useless towels. I also don't like quilted loo roll. Andrex classic all the way.

I love really big, really soft fluffy towels, but only if I'm being lazy and am going to hang about wrapped in the towel for a while, so I sort of air dry.

They're useless for getting you dry fast, and worse than no towel when it comes to thick long hair.

YANBU OP. I spend time making sure I have the right combination of I) size, ii) toughness and iii) just a bit of snugly fluffiness, but not the kind of fluff that SERVES NO PURPOSE except to leave you with a weird sheen of damp

I have an old towel bought in around 1979..its almost threadbare but my favourite for swimming.

I've just bought a huge Hamman...from Bathstore

YABU. Lovely, fluffy, large towels all the way for me!

My DS loves his hard, tiny, used to be pink, now grey towel. He won't be without it.

I knew I was not alone!

One day the lovely new, fluffy guest/DH towels will be mine... maybe in 15 years when they're old and threadbare.

I'm yet to test DD's towel preferences. She has two baby towels, a very soft one from The White Co. and a harder one (Amazon?) I'll test her reactions at bath time tonight and tomorrow.

The tale of the shell and flower towels almost brought a tear to my eye, it's like we still see our towels as they were when they were young, when everyone else sees them as old and haggard rags. There's a Disney film in there somewhere.

Couldn't agree more.

Yabvu! I love my fluffy bath sheets.

Dh would agree with you though. He doesn't like cushions either. I don't think he understands the concept of comfort.

Yanbu - both DH and I love hard scratch towels that actually get you dry. We were gifted two new fluffy bath sheets for Christmas; four months of enforced use and washing later, they are just about bearable. I reckon they'll be perfect in another couple of months.

I'm the same. Fluffy towels are useless plus they take forever to dry when you wash them.

Crispy towels are the way to go. IMO

Hah! We bought big thick new bath sheets for everyone in the family - except me! I prefer the ancient, thin, ABSORBENT ones DH wanted to chuck.
Or even better are the NHS towels left behind after my attempted homebirth ended in an emergency transfer to hospital. 6 years ago. They're just coming into their prime.
(In case you're worried, I did try to return them, but was told not to bother).

I love them too.

I bought several thin hard towels in Thailand many years ago, very cheap, nothing to beat them.

Poundland used to do thin hard t towels which were quite a decent size and would make a hand towel at a pinch.

Dh uses a microfibre towel. Yuck. Horrible things that cling to your skin.
I like a nice hard radiator dried towel any day.

We have really hard water where we live. So it means that even fluffy towels are hard if not dried in the tumble dryer.

I like a hard towel. I just assumed I was odd!

Does anyone know where you can buy nice hard scratchy towels nowadays? I bought some cheap ones hoping they'd be like that, but they're still too soft, not to mention moulting continuously.

My favourite towels are ones that my mam gave me when I moved out in 1997..,they were pretty old then. MIL gave some lovely big fluffy bath sheets...currently hanging on the line getting nice and scrubby for tonight ... I just don't feel dry after a soft towel.

Yanbu. Lovely hard stiff towels fresh off the washing line!