These guys suck, they, and their social media brethren brands have never been BIFL and never will More on reddit.com

Just FYI, most animal shelters would welcome the donation of your old towels. More on reddit.com

Peshtemal towels, also known as hammam towels. Once people go with peshtemal towels there's no looking back. You know how people like to talk about how their fancy bidet changed their life and now they can't imagine going back? It's like that. We are brutally hard on our towels. We live on the beach in the middle of nowhere in Mexico. Our running water is too minerally to drink and we're forever in the sea and sand, plus they dry in salt air. We were burning through expensive high quality ringspun Egyptian cotton towels in less than a year. Then after a trip to Morocco, where hammams/Turkish baths are a part of life, we realized we couldn't go back to anything but hammam towels. First of all, they're not trying to get cute. They're a flat weave cotton, not ringspun. They dry fast, wash easily, don't snag, pill, hold onto hair or bits of dead skin and they don't pull. And when/if a section gets damaged, they're easy to repair. I've only actually had to mend one, and it's 6+ years old. Sure, big pillowy stacks of white fluffy towels look great. But is that a towel's job? They take forever to dry, shed in the wash, and are susceptible to pulls and snags. Then when they do get a bare patch or a snag, they're hard to mend. And if you're washing them hard enough to get out all the little dead skin tacos from deep inside the towel, you're washing them so hard they'll wear out anyway. I love a toweling robe made with ringspun cotton. But for actual towels, it's flat woven peshtemals all the way. More on reddit.com

Costco towels are usually great. More on reddit.com