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November 23rd, 2023
Beware: This is advanced gift-giving. Everybody owns a towel already, and nobody is excited to unwrap a towel on Christmas Day.
But an unusual day got me thinking. The day had two showers, with two towels. The first was with an Ikea towel, and it was fine. Utilitarian. The second, though, was fluffy and soft: fluffy and soft enough for me to notice the contrast.
That fluffy and soft towel was a gift for my first Christmas in Canada, received from a wing of my partner’s family. We’d just moved in together. I didn’t realise it at the time, but in retrospect this was talented gifting. They barely knew me and they didn’t know much about our life. But they could give cosiness, and warmth, and a little luxury.
If you’re going to gift someone a towel, make it the fluffiest and biggest towel you can. It doesn’t have to be expensive - I suspect mine came from Marshall’s.