Yeah, that's us and towels. Since we had the attempted elopement thwarted, we had actual wedding presents and an actual wedding, but hadn't registered anywhere. So everyone just gave us towels. We had all these towels. I'm just now (coming up on our fourteenth anniversary) pretty much through them.

That's one of the things I'm looking forward to; buying fresh sets of matching linens. And buying linen. I love linen. It's probably my favorite fabric.

Modal. That's what the stuff is called.

My mom's favorite sheets are as old as their marriage. They're REALLY thin and won't last much longer. Took about 20 years to work through all their wedding towels.

I actually have the embroidered dish cloths (not terry cloth, linen or cotton) my grandmother made for them. They're falling apart and will never be snowy white again, but I keep and use them for sentimental reasons.

I have accomplished: going to the pet store to pick up femalt AND cat food. (They had the special IAMS for cats with sensitive tummies - like my Ivan - who ironically is also the cat I have who is most likely to break into the garbage. Although, it could be that those two things are related.) Also, groceries and the FNL tv show soundtrack. (Only about $10.50 at Walmart.)

And I discovered that bus fare went up. (Okay to $.75 - but if you're planning on $.50 each way -- you may not have enough change.) The buses, of course, do not change dollar bills.

When my parents were packing up their house in order to move to Tucson, they kept getting in fights over taking or tossing the silliest things, and one of the biggest was over the set of hand towels that they got as a wedding present 40+ years before.

eta: I fully expect my sister and I will be arguing over the same towels when the time comes to pack up the Tucson house.

Two sets of flannel, two of cotton. Three cotton if you count the set we bought at IKEA because we liked the design but decided weren't as comfy as our higher thread count ones and have never used again.

We have one set that we sleep on and one set for the guest bed. Which actually both need replacing at the moment because the elastic is shot on both fitted sheets.

One cotton, two cotton blends, two T-shirt material sets. And a lot of random pillow cases on top of those.

Just spend a lovely couple of hours visiting some friends and their kids, ate some sushi, am now eating pecan coconut cookies from Harris Teeter, and I found Martha White cornmeal mix, which I can't get in Del., there, too. Good day. Friend with whom I'm staying is napping.

I'm deliberating over whether I should just drive home tonight or wait until the morning as I'd planned (I have Tuesday off, too). I guess there would be less traffic tomorrow. Eh, I don't know.

I have two sets of these in pale gold as my main bedsheets, the red faux-silk with a sateen top sheet for special occasions, and a couple pairs colored cotton sheets that I haven't used in years but can't justify getting rid of. Oh, and an extra somewhat raggedy sateen flat sheet for when I sleep on the couch.

Queen (Our bed): 2.5 cotton, 2 flannel.
Double (Eve's old bed, now only for the futon for guests): 1 threadbare cotton, 1 cotton with no pillowcases, 1 flannel.
Single (Eve's current bed, which is an Aerobed): 1.5 cotton, really old from before we were married. Really need another set, in case of bed-wetting (though an excellent side benefit of the aerobed is - it's plastic!)

We need to weed out the old and get some better ones for Eve. Plus, you know, buy her an actual bed. Maybe when we move...