To buy white towels?

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I've had half a bathroom for four months while DH does it up, and I have been promised (promised!) it will be finished before we go back to work in the new year.

I want white towels - white, fluffy, dense, hotel-style towels. I can see them there in my minds eye, rolled up in lovely neat rolls looking all spa-like next to the hanging planter I asked for for Christmas.

DH's issue is we have a one year old and in theory will have another baby in a year or so, and he thinks the white towels are a fantasy and that it will last a nanosecond. He thinks we should get grey or patterned. But we've never had white ones and I waaaant them - can't I have them?! 😭 Surely I can just hang them on the line to get out stubborn stains? I can get what I like, but DH has made me pause. Will I really rue the day, MN?

No. Just use bleach when needed.

We have 2 kids and white towels. It’s fine!

Deliberately bought loads of white towels and white bedding so I can wash it all on a really hot wash as it's good for the washing machine.

They're all lovely and white still!

I love my white towels. Use laundry bleach in each wash with them. The feeling of simple luxurious indulgence every time I use one is well worth it. And yes they give me pleasure just seeing them rolled up on the bathroom shelf looking like a spa

I do have colour coded towels for more stain-inducing uses as well though.....black for my hair when it’s been dyed, red for the dogs. They don’t live on the open shelf!

towels, paintwork and crockery....all should be white.

Hot wash at 60 as standard and bung on a 90 if they are looking a bit grim...try and peg them out as the sun really does them up a treat.

Aldi have some lovely towels in atm, I have some I got in the summer from them and they are fab...no hitching or catching or threads at all

We have a 2 year old and a newborn and always had white towels, got lovely fluffy ones from m and s. Agree with others no issue just wash on a hot wash.

We have white towels, and have done since ds was a toddler. They are so easy to look after and keep looking great

White are perfect, you can boil wash - and keep your washing machine clean at the same time, or bleach.

Oh thank god, I was sure I was going to get shot down!

Where do you all get your especially nice dense ones? I have seen the ones in aldi but I have aquamarine ones (I know, I know, I asked for 'nice towels' for Christmas a few years ago and elderly family member got me these) from aldi and though they were nice and fluffy they're all pulled threads now.

We have nice white towels for the adults that stay out on display and the kids have bright colourful ones that live in their rooms (or used to before the mountain of kids paraphernalia that we've built up disrupted the spa vibe anyway )

They're much easier to keep clean because you can bleach them - that's why hotels use them!

That said if my towels were stained with some horrible substance I'd rather know about it - bit gross otherwise.

White towels for you, and shades of towels for the rest of the house- so, light grey, dark grey, black or light blue, mid blue, navy.

Mum has had white towels since as long as I can remember. Dad has navy or burgundy, depending on the decoration of the house.

I do remember telling DH (in a rather shouty, screamy voice), as he was on the phone with ambulance control to "not to use the white towels" when they suggested towels for our imminent arrival (DS2 arrived 6 mins after calling 999).

I thought the benefit of white towels was you can bleach them white if they get stained?

I just bought some lovely 800gsm white bath sheets for £15 each, lovelly.

I have white towels and lots and lots of coloured ones
I have 2 teenage daughters who’s mania for false tan and makeup leaves my fluffy white ones looking undesirable, so they don’t use the white ones just me

I think Tielle is the brand a lot of top hotels and spas use, that’s what I’m planning to try next. Otherwise Dunelm has been the best of the many I’ve tried, but not found the holy grail yet.

Yes do it. I love having white towels and bedding. I’d rather see if something is dirty. Go for a decent GSM. 500-750gsm is about right.

You could get white nice towels and darker/patterned towels that you can destroy a bit if you need to.. we have nice light fluffies but I use black towels (dyed hair) for me and leave the fluffies folded all nice.

Also means I only need one set of nice ones and I never need to redo their stack.. until dp fucks with my preciouses...

Luna so you have stunt towels? That are not for use for any actual toweling duties?

Love your style

Have both white and grey and alternate - the kids are no bother it’s my makeup that’s an issue !

We've always had white towels. This is the place we get them (hotel supplier):

Mitre Linen

We have white for our bathroom and the DC have navy in theirs. It means nobody gets mixed up and when the DC are particularly grimy I don't cry if they wipe their half-washed hands on navy towels.

We’ve got white towels and a two year old, it’s fine! I just bought some from Asda and then replace when the threads get pulled. You could try TK Maxx for nice thick ones though.

Look in TK Maxx/HomeSense for really nice towels at reasonable prices. I wouldn't get white ones, personally, but they usually have a good choice.

Ooo I love white towels. I wash them on 60 and use a bit of whitening stuff. Brings then up beautifully every time and they're washed very frequently.

Bloody he’ll, they’re towels...not a 3 piece suite. They’re very easy to keep looking white, but if they discolour your can buy new ones & keep the others for ‘dirty jobs’ it’s really not the end of the world