Towels especially, it's because cotton and linen are more absorbent. They're porous fibers naturally. And so they're thirsty. I'm not talking about like Romantici levels of thirsty hair. I just mean that they physically want to soak up a lot of water.

I'm Christine Sir Clissette. I'm Cairo Blackwell. I'm Christine Cyraclissette.

I'm Kyra Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garan.

And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

This episode is called You Deserve Better Towels.

Guys, I was doing some laundry last night, and I was doing some laundry last night, and I realized at a certain point that I had folded like eight towels.

But the thing about this, and I know this sounds random, but the thing about this is none of them matched.

Oh, yeah. And then I was starting to go back through my personal history, trying to remember where all of these tells came from. I was like,

they're all kind of in varying forms of degradation, I think maybe, is a good way to put it. And

I was thinking that maybe it's time for an overhaul.

Right.

I just feel like that's how you come to collect towels over your life.

It's like a really boring collector's item.

I feel like leveling up is having a full set of matching towels.

I mean, I feel like Christine, you have a full set.

I definitely do. Yeah, of course I do. Are they all the same color too? Well, you know what,

actually, I have a couple sets in different colors, but I will tell you that I didn't actually

achieve that until my late 30s, early 40s. So is it fair to conclude that perhaps, Kyra, you do not have a full set of

matching towels? Don't look at me right now. She's setting me up because she knows I only have one

towel. Wait a minute. That seems pretty extreme. Are you like a monastic person or something? Like,

are you just like, you just have like one chair in your apartment and one

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