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who will think of the towels?

pinky — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:08:37 -0800

If you don't have a linen closet, where do you keep your towels and sheets? I was cleaning out our guest room and realized that the large decorative wooden chest that we cram all our extra blankets, afghans, sheets and towels in was straining at the seams, so I took the towels out. But now I have nowhere to put them. I've tried storing linens in large plastic totes before, but they always end up musty.

Do you have an actual piece of furniture for this purpose? Link it!

Beach Comfort

trashcan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:03:21 -0800

How can I be comfortable sitting on the beach for a few hours, without my back and arms seizing up? Going on holiday and as much as I love the beach, I really seize up when lying on a beach towel for a long period of time. Any easily packed or widely available items that would aid my comfort. I'm talking where there are no beach beds - but even those after about 15 minutes make me ache!

Obviously I will apply copius high factor - and not stay out for too long....but anyone got any sand implement tips to help me have an even better time??

Ta

Am I killing my towel?

Rabarberofficer — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:59:07 -0800

Do I harm my towel when I nuke it in the micro-wave to dry it faster? I'm started a fairly regular training-regement that take place before my workday. Now, since I live, hrm - work - in a cubicle I can't have a towel hanging around all day to dry.

So, I've taken to putting the towel in the micro-wave for a minute (it's in a Rubbermaid, so it's not unhygenical, mind you) since it will dry faster that way.

Will this method degenerate the towel faster than ordinary drying?

I've don't really have any sentimental attachments to my towel, but it's fairly soft and nice. I would regret if I put it to an untimely exit due to death by microwave.

How to clean Musty Towels

milestogo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:34:00 -0800

How can I get this awful, musty smell out of my towels? A wierd thing happened with my towels. I left them in my apartment over the summer, and the subletter here made the entire place stink, including my towels on the linen rack. When I came back, I noticed thier awful, musty smell (same as the apartment smelled), and threw them in the wash. They came out just fine.

Here is the wierd part: after one use, the old smell was triggered again and it reemerged! So they smell just as bad as when I thre them into the wash. How can I remove this smell once and for all?

Do any MeFites have similar experiences?

Thanks, all!

Normal sized bath towels around anymore?

chocolatetiara — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:14:44 -0800

Are there standard sizes for bath towels? I want some smaller sized bath towels. I have several of them from years ago, they measure about 43-44 inches in length, and they are a perfect size. I bought towels recently, and although they are lovely, large towels I still want some smaller ones.

I cannot find this size towel anywhere. I have looked at The Company Store; JC Penny; Bed, Bath and Beyond. It seems like this size towel is not made any longer. One time I had heard that there were only actually a couple of factories in the US that made towels, so that it often didn't matter the tag on them because they all came from the same place.

Most towels I find these days run from 54" to 58", and I have some of those too. But I want the smaller sized ones. Can some one help me or tell me to stop looking?

A quest for Italian towels.

wsg — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:26:27 -0800

Help me find these non-terry cloth bath towels like the one my SO got in Italy. No terry cloth allowed. She thinks it might be called a bath sheet, but googling that only brings up terry cloth. She now hates all towels except this kind.

The towel is over sized, light, flat, simple cotton with a pattern woven in. It's not fuzzy at all. It came from a hotel in Rome, but she says they are everywhere over there. Hers is now threadbare and worn out. I would like to find replacements. Where can I order some?

how to wash out flour?

iloveit — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:15:03 -0800

How do I wash flour out of my towels? What do I do with the towels I use for breadmaking? I have some flour sack towels that are covered in copious amounts of flour. Dough has stuck to some of them and dried into a hard mass. I'd like to wash them out and reuse them, but I'm worried about making a batch of wheat-paste in my washing machine. How do I wash these things without making a bigger mess than I started with?

Cleaning with used bath towels

the giant pill — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:43:25 -0800

Is it wrong to take a dirty bath towel from the dirty clothes hamper to clean the toilet bowel rim? I do put it back in the hamper.

Towel Design

woil — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:00:43 -0800

All of the towels in my house have a stitched patter a couple inches from the vertical end. Anyone have any idea where this came from, or what the function is? [MI] While most of the time this only serves as useless decoration, occasionally it'll bunch up causing the towel to look more like a tootsie roll with the ends all splayed out. I'm assuming separate companies use different patterns, is there someone out there who can identify what towel company a towel is from because of the pattern?

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patter = pattern. :)