Does anyone know what store carries the “Well Dressed Home” brand of towels? I’ve tried Google, and searching the websites of some large department stores, but haven’t had any luck. welldressedhome.com also doesn’t sell towels. Please help, or I’ll be stuck with a dozen gloomy black towels (which it was very nice of my aunt to send me, but I get depressed just looking at them).
I guess ZZ Top was right - every girl crazy bout a well dressed home.
So let me get this straight. Your problem is that you don’t know where your towel is, right?
How could I ever lose something as massively useful as a towel? My problem is that I seem to have several dozen other people’s towels, and don’t know how to give them back.
My original post might seem like a silly question to most people, but I’m trying to gather all the stuff (ice trays, glasses, those little clips that keep bags closed) I need for my first apartment. All of my relatives have been very kind and generous, dropping by with useful stuff. However, at least half of it has been towels. I thought maybe I could return the black towels, and keep the blue towels, green towels, purple+white striped towels, and yellow towels. If I can return the black towels, I’ll probably get $50 in store credit for them, and that will buy a shower curtain, laundry baskets, and maybe the scrubby brush that goes by the toilet.
So I know it might seem silly, but I’d really love to know where to return these towels.
Why not ask them where they bought them? If you don’t want them to know you are exchanging them, simply tell them you loved them and would like to see other styles and colors the store might have too.
She’d know I wanted to return them. She’s about 70 and very sharp, and I’m a horrible liar. Actually, your suggestion might have worked if I’d done it right away, but if I call her and ask she’ll just know.
You will never have enough towels. The laundry always seems to back up, and you’ll have unexpected guests that weekend, then something will leak, etc. Besides, towels tend to travel from apartment to apartment to house. You may need black towels someday in a future apartment. Hang on to them. At the very least, you can use them as moving padding.
Any idea about where in New Jersey they were bought? being from there myself (see location), I might have a better idea of what to look for if I knew where it was. So far, I’ve turned up nothing.
That is an excellent question, unfortunately, she lives in Paramus NJ For those of you who don’t live in the Garden State, the reason that’s so funny is that Paramus is the land of malls. The area is super-saturated with stores. Actually, I might use all those malls to my advantage and take the bag of towels with me tomorrow on a tour of the malls. I’m not in school right now, so a day wandering the malls of my youth could be fun.
You mean they haven’t given up yet and just made Paramus one big giant-ass mall yet?
Well, if you’re willing to lie, tell her you really like them, and want to get some more to match.
But watch out if she ever visits your apartment and doesn’t see any around.
And you might find that she (and other relatives she talks too) buy you even more of these towels for Xmas & B’day, since “you like them so much”.
Frankly, I’d just tell her the truth – 70 year old ladies have seen a lot of life, and are pretty understanding about such economic realities. She lived thru the Great Depression, after all. Ask her what she did about furnishing her first apartment/home – you’ll probably hear some interesting stories about making do with little money.
My goodness, what a waste of time. Give the black towels to Goodwill (or keep them in a closet for when your aunt visits) and buy yourself some towels you like. Towels cost close to nothing and it is not worth wasting much time trying to chase this down.
Are you sure she bought them for you? They may be a “regift”…something your aunt received as a gift, but didn’t particularly care for, so she’s kept them in a closet for years and she decided to give them to you because she thought you could use them (not knowing that everyone else gave you towels, too!) My husband got a lot of stuff like that (used and unused) from his family when he got his first apartment, and we got even more when we were married. We ended up selling a lot of it at a garage sale, especially the “decorative” stuff.
(I don’t mean to offend you–maybe your aunt would never “regift”, but some people do.)
If they are really nice towels, but just not your color, perhaps you could get some cash for them on eBay.
Sailor, when was the last time you bought towels? A good bath towel can set you back $20…
-lv
I hadn’t thought of the regifting possibility. Black towels do seem more of a late 80’s/early 90’s trend. Not that I mind, a gift is a gift no matter where it came from. It does shed some light on why the manufacturer is so hard to find, they might have gone out of business years ago. The towels look new though.
Oh well, I’m going to get some sleep before my mall-crawl tomorrow. If I find out where they came from, I’ll post it
Not in ages and I certainly would not pay $20. What exactly does a good towel do that a regular towel doesn’t? Can it be connected to the Internet? I have some towels which have lasted me forever now and I only bought a towel in China last year because the airline lost my luggage and I paid about $3 for it and it will probably last a decade or more. My only requirementy is that they be !00% cotton. When I go to people’s homes I hate the feel of towels with artificial fibers which make them feel fluffier but much less absorbent.
Alice, there is nothing wrong with “regifting”.
I don’t even think you can get a bath towel at Walmart for $3.
I don’t know about department store towels–but you can go to Target and compare the thin, small, rough, cheap towels to the thicker, softer, fluffier, bigger towels that cost more money. Some people think that the towels resembling the ones you used in gym class are OK, and others prefer a bit more luxury.
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