Oh my gosh. What's the deal with expensive towels snagging? I need to find NON SNAGGING bath towels. Advice please! (stairs, color)
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I got Target towels for my kids, and they are falling apart. The ends are coming unhemmed.
I bought some Target towels 4 years ago, when I also bought some towels from BB&B for our master. After four years, you can tell that the Target towels are not as good quality. The hems unravel, for one thing. I've sewn up two items, and there is another unraveling as I speak. And the towels have not remained as soft as the other towels, although all of them have become harsher with washing and drying.
I don't think highly of Target merch in general, and the towel experience reinforces my impression.
We will be replacing our towels with the redo of our master. I will be choosing middle of the pack quality, with none of those pesky loops on the nap of the underside of the towels.
Which brings me to my question about this issue. How long do most of you use your towels? I've been known to keep mine for about a decade. Is that longer than the norm? Just curious.
Going to second towels from Sam's Club, the ones I bought were only @ $7 each (for a bath size towel) none have snagged and are still nice and fluffy even after 5 years or so of use.
I do only wash towels with towels/wash cloths and tea towels as I like to hot wash them. Maybe your towels are getting snagged in the washer if you do a mixed load ?
Which brings me to my question about this issue. How long do most of you use your towels? I've been known to keep mine for about a decade. Is that longer than the norm? Just curious.
If it was up to my SO, we'd keep the towels forever. He had a set of towels that were thread barren and could barely be considered towels. I bought new towels and let him continue using the old ones until he realized how much nicer the big fluffy towels are. We had the new towels for about 8 years before we replaced them. The ones we have now are about a year old, but I don't see them lasting another decade. They're not a good quality. I'll probably keep them until we move in a few years and then redecorate the bathroom decor.
Going to second towels from Sam's Club, the ones I bought were only @ $7 each (for a bath size towel) none have snagged and are still nice and fluffy even after 5 years or so of use.
I do only wash towels with towels/wash cloths and tea towels as I like to hot wash them. Maybe your towels are getting snagged in the washer if you do a mixed load ?
I also have those towels from Sams. They look awful after only a year. I only wash my towels with other towels, and sometimes bed sheets. There is nothing for them to snag on.
Ok, I must be using bath towels ALL WRONG! I mean, nearly 5 decades on this planet and I'm not sure I've ever had one 'snag'? Cheap ones, thin ones, hand-me-downs, bought from garage sales 4 for a buck, from Walmart, Target, and we splurged one for some from Penneys. Some did little more than push the water around my skin, but not a single one of them "snagged".
What am I doing Wrong? My wife is in the same boat as me (at least for the nearly 2 decades we've been together), though she may have been doing it right to get snags before that....
Thanks so much for the helpful post.
No, I haven't been buying cheap towels. All one has to do is google "towels that don't snag" or "towel reviews" to realize that this is a common problem with towels. If you're not experiencing it, then kudos to you, you extra special person. You're clearly superior and I bow before you.
Yeah me either!.....I just did an inventory of my towels.....no snags. What do you suppose she is snagging them on?
The diamond setting on my wedding band.
My diamond stud earrings.
My diamond fleur de lis necklace.
Apparently I'm wearing too many diamonds.
The thing is, this is a new problem, though the diamonds are NOT new. That's what confuses me. They never used to snag my towels, now they do. I want towels that don't snag on diamonds, I guess.
THIS is a good name - or used to be. I had some Wamsutta towels and I STILL have them, though they no longer match my bathroom. I wonder if they're still made the same? I will go Wamsutta shopping and run my wedding band across the towel and see if it snags - LOL. Thanks for the reminder.
By the way, folks, it's not my washer or dryer - my ring snags them. (I don't take my wedding band off when I bathe - or actually ever, except to clean it.)
Also, my diamond stud earrings, which also never come off.
I usually also wear the small fleur de lis pendant necklace that my husband had made for me - it has little points on it.
But the thing is, I've always worn these things - for at least a decade. They never used to snag my towels and now they catch on them all the time, and that's the last TWO sets of towels I've bought (and none were cheap ones either, adding to my frustration). We are remodeling our master bath and I am going to buy new towels and doggone it, I want some that don't snag and I know it's possible to make them because I've owned them before. If I didn't mind using 15 year old, jewel tone paisley print towels in my new neutral toned bathroom, I'd just pull those out (they've been relegated to beach and hot tub usage but they still look and perform great!).
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