New towels......

Most of mine are positively ancient. I dye them when I want a change of colour. They are all over 30 years old, and started out in cream and peach. The cream ones were dyed either light blue or denim blue or navy, the peach ones became shocking pink or red. I was given a lot of towels when I got married.

The hand towels of course become the first casualties, they are cut up into squares, have their edges bound and become flannels. My sisters laugh at me, but I still have a pile of over a dozen untouched in the airing cupboard and have never bought a flannel - and I use one every day. Once they start to wear out, they become kitchen cloths then floorcloths. The final grimy holey little rag then goes on the fire.

God but I'm tight!

Mine don't wear out fast enough , I saw some gorgeous lime green ones in Debenhams yesterday.....
Several years ago I bought black ones (never again!) and white thick bath sheets but those are so thick I fear they'll outlast me....

I still have towel that were wedding gifts 39 years ago. Very little wrong with them although we don't use them much now. tend to take them if we are swimming or at the beach. otherwise I would buy new if I changed the whole colour scheme or they were getting too thin. The ones we use I the bathroom at the moment are 5 years old.

I had all white till I saw the beautiful colours Dunelm had so I bought 3sets of them and consigned the perfectly good white ones to the back of the airing cupboard

Our towels have a life cycle. Once they become so worn they no longer fluff up with the help of a tumble dryer sheet, they are used for cleaning the dogs. When they are even more threadbare DH cuts them up for workshop rags or takes them fishing to wipe his yucky slimy hands on [bleugh emoticon]

I have towels that are twenty years old and still in use.

I wish you had all said that you changed them every year then I would have a justification for buying new ones!

I have some in the airing cupboard that come out when we have visitors that must be at least 10 years old (or more).

The local dogs' homes are always glad of old towels.

We get all white so the colour scheme issue does not arise. We use them till they die and then they become condensation sopping up towels.

I get very irritated by the dressing that is put in new towels so that you have to wash them first for them to be of any use - seems a bit pointless really.

Yes I have some Christy ones, also White Company ones which are still nice and I've had them a lot longer than 3 years.

I tend to change mine when I'm fed up with the bathroom colour scheme!

I'm not so anal that my bath sheets match. They get changed when they look tatty. I confess to having one that's at least 6 yrs old.

They do lose their fluffiness, especially if you have only white ones and wash them a lot.
You can salve your conscience by cutting the old ones up, sticking them in a bag in a cupboard somewhere, and then when your OH asks that tiresome question 'Got any old rag anywhere?' you can furnish one with a smile, like a properly organised 1950's housewife ;)

I see they have Christy towels, which I have and they have stayed nice and thick.

There is nothing wrong with most of the towels I have, they are still nice and thick and not thin or worn after about 3 years; however I hanker after some new ones in a different colour.
I did buy some from Debenhams sale a couple of years ago, they had been expensive but were half price. However they have worn quite thin.
They were not the Egyptian cotton ones though.