New Towels

OK, I'll admit it. I'm pretty bougie. I like nice stuff. Sometimes, I'm incredibly cheap, but most of the time, I don't mind spending my money on nice things. Which is why when I found myself getting out of the shower a couple of weeks ago, I came to a little bit of an epiphany.

As I looked in the mirror, naked and wet from my shower, toweling myself off with a rag that looked like it had just come back from the war in Afghanistan, a shadow of its former self, I thought to myself, why? How is it that we haven't purchased new bath towels, something we use every single day? OK, maybe every other day... OK, maybe every three days... Something we use all the time... Why are we still using the same frayed and threadbare towels that have very little ability to absorb the water and oil from my freshly showered skin and hair? Sure, they're "broken in" and familiar, but don't we deserve better? Those stains are there for life; that's never going to come out. It's already been washed a few hundred times...

So I suggested to my wife, "Hey, maybe we should buy some new towels?" With the thought that eventually I'd find some new ones in the cabinet. But thanks to Mr. Jeff Bezos and his team, I had a new towel in my hand just a few days later. And let me tell you what... I'm so glad.

Do yourself a favor, buy some new towels, and thank me later. There is nothing like drying off your bits and pieces with a soft new bath towel. I don't know that the technology has come very far in recent years, but there is a major difference between the old rags of the past and the new ones we just purchased. The old ones are still floating around, and I still use one every now and again, but they're getting thrown in the garbage very soon. Because for $40 for 4 of them, you shouldn't be using those old disgusting rags anymore. (And while you're at it, get some new hand towels too. You know those are just as old.) As Tom Haverford would say: "Treat yo' self". You'll be glad you did.