Day 208: Returns, Towels, and Lavage

Posted on | March 27, 2008 |

Lavage session — $70.00
It’s expensive.  It’s painful.  But the effect it’s having on my IBS is both undeniable and fabulous.  This is the longest stretch of symptom relief I’ve had in about a decade.

Old Navy — ($40.87)
I returned the baseball jersey ($3.49) and the hooded jacket ($34.50) that the son rejected the other day.

T.J. Maxx — ($34.39)
I returned the four sage green organic cotton towels I’d picked up.  I really liked the color.  The towels were a gorgeous, thick cotton.  The price was perfect.  And I loved the idea of organic cotton towels.   Still, I returned them.

The way my master bathroom is set up, I have three hand-forged metal hooks screwed into a cherry chair-rail.  The hooks hold one towel for me, one towel for The Husband, and a bathmat we use when showering.  And there lies the problem — the towels hang right next to the bathmat so the towels and bathmat have to look nice together.  It’s harder to find towel sets that include matching bathmats than one would think.  I returned the organic cotton towels because I could not find a bathmat that looked good next to the towels.

Bed, Bath, & Beyond — $58.02
[I looked at towels at Linens N' Things, Ross Dress for Less, and T.J. Maxx before stopping at BB&B.]

I bought 6 towels and 2 bathmats.  They are a pretty cream color – it’s a pretty color but not one that I’d typically consider or gravitate toward.  I generally prefer a medium-dark color for bath towels.  However, the cream looks very nice in my bathroom.  And I’d really been hoping to find a textured towel instead of the more traditional single-texture terrycloth towel.  I thought that a texture would add visual interest.  I could have gone with a multi-colored or striped towel, but in my opinion stripes or decorator colors become outdated quickly and I expect these towels to last me a good number of years.  The final benefit of buying cream-colored towels is that, unlike dark colors, they can be washed in hot water without fear of fading.

I can’t say it’s the best thing, but a very nice thing about these towels is that they were on sale — for 40% off.  I saved a total of $36 off the full price of the items I purchased.

Without a doubt, the very best thing about these news towels is that The Husband likes them and approves of the purchase.  He agrees that it’s time for new towels and he liked the ones I’d chosen.  Doesn’t get much better than that 

Wild Oats — $7.05

• dozen Nest Fresh eggs — $3.69
• Odwalla Strawberry C Monster — $3.29
• bag credit — ($0.10)

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