Eight years ago, someone- I don’t know who, went to their local Target and asked for my wedding registry. They noted that I had registered for lovely sage green towels and purchased them for me as a wedding gift.
Here lies the remnants of the last of the beautiful sage green towels. I felt it worth making note of the passing of this era. This towel is faded, no longer sage green after an incident involving bleach and a very tired Mommy. The ends are ragged and frayed.
Hanging my laundry as I do, I have become intimately acquainted with each item. I have watched this towel’s declining health with a mixture of sadness, joy, and “Seriously? It’s just a TOWEL!”.
I think of all my wedding gifts, these towels signaled for me that I was actually getting married and starting a life with a man. Towels go in the bathroom. We only share our towels and bathrooms with the ones we love the most.
The kitchen gadgets and silverware were addressed to “us”, but I think we all know that all things kitchen related are “mine”. Towels though, we both need towels. The towels are “ours”. Towels meant that we were actually going to take the leap and go about sharing a bathroom.
I am proud to say that this towel is retiring and I haven’t. It was a sturdy towel. A good towel. But it was no match for the marriage that just won’t end.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
We had red towels (wha?) they have slowly become naassty and we are in need of new ones. However, my washing machine like to eat towels, so we’re sticking with the red ones until we get a new washer. Can’t. wait.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Great metaphor. I bet those where really nice towels too. Have an awesome weekend!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Who gets red towels? Are they hot pink now? I don’t have new towels now. My “towel set” (and I use that term loosely) now consists of a purple one that I think I owned in college, a white one that I’m pretty sure I stole from my Mom, a very scary looking Star Wars movie themed towel Ian received as a gift, a random black towel- origin unclear, and a few others for good measure. I’ll get new towels someday. Someday…
Thank you, Theresa! You have a great weekend too.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
The towels that we recieved were blue. Navy Blue. They have long since retired, and all the towels we now own have been bleached, only not with bleach but with my ProActive face wash.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I guess I am not cool enough to be in your long marriage group because even though we’re coming up on 9 years this week, we still have lots of our marriage towels and they are all in good shape. Sorry I can’t be cool, but whateverdude.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Cute analogy. Love this post. Congrats on a marriage that will go the distance!