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...

I rotate two main sets of cotton and two main sets of flannel, with one each of backup in case of laundry disasterfication.

I have only just entered the era of my adult life where the sheets mostly all match each other, so that the curtains don't suddenly clash when I'm doing laundry. Which would be why the bright purple ones and the freaky burgundy print ones are the backups. (Two white flat sheets, recently retired, may yet return as doorway curtains.)

And for some reason I have a zillion mis-matched pillow-cases. I think that somebody is getting my odd socks and I am getting their pillow cases in one of those dryer-wormhole situations I hear so much about.

2 sets of flannel sheets for our bed. 1 set of cotton for the guest bed. some odds and ends of other sets

Today is labor day, so we have labored. we cut the rough lumber that is to become our floor boards to six foot lengths. DH is ready to start cutting them to width. He might get another hour from me.

I actually have probably 4 or 5 sets of sheets, but I basically use two -- one broadcloth (right?), one flannel. They're both cotton, right?

I just got back from the US Open, which was delightful.

1 set of light blue whatever, one of lavender t-shirt material, which does not match my new wall color (a different shade of lavender).

1 set for the aerobed, and 1 for the hide-a-bed.

One extra normal-sized dark blue flannel pillowcase, and one dark blue body-pillow-case