It might sound like @medz is being flippant, but he/she is right.
Costco sells a great 40”x72” beach towel that’s 100% Egyptian cotton, and is great quality. Can’t remember the price, but I have bought three of them over the 5 years or so.
@haydesigner@medz Costco’s towels were selling earlier this year for 11.99 each, but they’re much larger and great quality. From the Amazon reviews of these, it’s worth the few extra bucks for the Costco towels given the size and quality difference, not to mention the great return policy. These just seem like crap.
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
Just stop by your local beach souvenir shop where you’ll likely find something just as cheap yet able to separate your entire body from the sand below.
got mine today. I see the condition is listed as new - but are they factory seconds? 3 of my 4 towels have significant (3+ in) ‘pulls’? where there is no knap and one has blue stains but a different, lighter color blue than the rest of the towels. Pretty annoyed, I knew they were cheap but didn’t think they’d be damaged. I’ll take pics and make an official gripe post later.
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$44.99 at Amazon
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90 days
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Monday, July 13th - Monday, July 20th
Too short. If I try to nap on one of these at the beach, over a foot of me would be in the sand.
@medz 30" x 60" seems to be pretty standard for beach towels.
@medz I guess this is one of the few benefits of being short. Only 1 inch if me would have an issue!
@medz Maybe bring 2 with you to the beach. Or all 4. With all 4 you could make a 5 foot by 10 foot resting place.
@medz @tinamarie1974
Which inch?
@Euniceandrich MEGA TOWEL!
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It might sound like @medz is being flippant, but he/she is right.
Costco sells a great 40”x72” beach towel that’s 100% Egyptian cotton, and is great quality. Can’t remember the price, but I have bought three of them over the 5 years or so.
@medz Thanks for the tip. I’m gonna buy a shorter towel so I’ll appear bigger.
@medz @therealjrn hhuummmm, IDK! Maybe my toes, because it always feels good to bury your feet in the sand!
@haydesigner @medz Costco’s towels were selling earlier this year for 11.99 each, but they’re much larger and great quality. From the Amazon reviews of these, it’s worth the few extra bucks for the Costco towels given the size and quality difference, not to mention the great return policy. These just seem like crap.
I’m throwing in the towel. Good night, All.
If that’s the cabana boy who comes with the towel, I’ll pass.
Life is a beach
@zaiemv towel
No iron beach towels? Aren’t they all no iron?
These aren’t “beach towels” (based on size,) they are generous-sized bath towels. At $6/each, they are, at BEST, a meh deal. Hard pass, dudes.
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“Sing us a song, cabana man. Sing us a song tonight…”
@wew “Well we’re all in the mood for a melody
And you got us feeling alright”
“'Well we’re now in the mood to get off the beach, and you’ve got a towel alright”
I’ve seen Tommy Hilfiger beach towels for the same price last week at Macy’s so this is not a great bargain here but they are very nice looking
I don’t like velour crap on towels just plain ol Turkish towels. This deal is a fail and weak MMGA.
@cranky1950 I don’t like plushy towels of any kind. They’re not effective. It’s getting really hard to find non-plushy, non-velvety towels lately.
I would’ve gone for 2 blue and 2 pink for $20.
@versabox exactly what I was thinking. I wish it was a pack of some of each rather than all one color. But hey
@DocJRoberts @versabox Too hard for warehouse robots to sort.
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
I am almost sold.
@hchavers damn, beat me by a mere eleven hours.
@hchavers Mostly harmless.
Don’t Panic.
@alacrity I don’t find those letters friendly.
Just stop by your local beach souvenir shop where you’ll likely find something just as cheap yet able to separate your entire body from the sand below.
@cinoclav not a 4 pack, though. those places charge outrageous prices.
@medz I’ve bought $5 beach towels from those places before.
@cinoclav
/giphy you lie like a rug
@medz I have a couple of OBX towels at home bought just because they were that cheap. They’re giveaways to those that might need one.
Waldo may have ONE OF the most iconic beach scenes in history, but he’s still well below Nick Rivers.
@themicah Poor Val, life has been hard on him.
@cinoclav @themicah WTF happened to him!
@themicah @tinamarie1974 Throat cancer for beginners.
@cinoclav @themicah
/giphy sad
Lots of inexpensive towels online at Wally World. Personally, I think I’d go full blown avocado for $5.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Shaped-Avocado-Beach-Towel-1-Each/258768790
@cinoclav
@cinoclav 50.75"W x 68”H
@medz See? It’s even bigger than what’s being sold today! And here’s one for @narfcake.
Pass. 72"X40" or nothing.
got mine today. I see the condition is listed as new - but are they factory seconds? 3 of my 4 towels have significant (3+ in) ‘pulls’? where there is no knap and one has blue stains but a different, lighter color blue than the rest of the towels. Pretty annoyed, I knew they were cheap but didn’t think they’d be damaged. I’ll take pics and make an official gripe post later.
My wife hated them some of them worn with holes in them
got them. small ish and thin ish. but hey for $6 per, everyone who uses the hot tub can have one and i don’t care if they get fucked up