You Can Never Have Too Many Towels

Black underwear

Lee Press-Ons

Hats, gloves and shoes.

Invitations

You can never have too many jackets!🧥

Blank birthday cards.

edible flowers

Authentic Nilla Wafers.

Keep your store brand cookies in your own house!!!

dishes

wine glasses

It’s pillows for me.

Had an uncle with tons of hotel towels. Loved him, but he hated me.

R9 I agree. When we moved I brought dishes to the goodwill in some kind of half-assed minimalist mood and regret it to this day.

My dead mother thought this. I think it’s having a huge supply of paper products: tp, paper towels, wipes, plates…

Dishes - damn. I have our everyday Williams-Sonoma basic white dishes, my mother's china - 12 place settings and all the serving pieces, the first set I bought when I got my own place after my divorce, and a set of plates and glasses from the mother of one of my sons' friends when I first moved out. Oh, and eight place settings of Lenox holiday china and the holiday crystal.

R15 Love those legacy dishes. You, Sir, have class shootin’ out the ass!

Many straight men have a definite problem with towels. They don’t use them or always use the wrong towel. I say this after numerous experiences with painters and contractors. Guess their wives instill fear in them.

orgasms

earrings

CAFTANS!

Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares.

Underpants

Socks

washcloths

The dishes/chinaware queens are scary. All those dreary middle-class little springs of flowers.

My taste is maximalist at home, lots of things but with plenty of space between them. But I can definitely have too many of most anything. Unless of course I were to be showered with Van Eyck's Caravaggios, Zurburans, Picassos, Velázquezs, Loths, Tintorettos, Moronis, Bronzinos, Sargents, Francis Bacons...I could never have too many.

Do not assume all dish queens have pedestrian indiscriminate taste and acquisition habits.

Emergency contacts (I only have 2).

Legacy children.

Large glass mixing bowls, trust me.

[quote] My dead mother thought this. I think it’s having a huge supply of paper products: tp, paper towels, wipes, plates…

My mother thought you could never have too many napkins. She would take almost the entire stack at a fast food establishment. Even my little nephew noticed, "I think Nana likes McDonalds mainly as a napkin opportunity".

Lovely linen pillowcases. I change mine every other day.

[quote]You, Sir, have class shootin’ out the ass!

Pics please.

We beg to differ.

All depends..

If you're having a party...ice, booze, and glasses

Guest for a weekend visit....towels

Personal...underwear and socks

[quote] All depends..

That’s my response to this thread.

[quote]Do not assume all dish queens have pedestrian indiscriminate taste and acquisition habits

From memory, most aspire to between the wars patterns, "Mother's favorite," of course, a splurge at Replacements, or a piece or two of that dreadful Meissan stuff.

But maybe I've overlooked a significant subset of DL china collectors whose focus is on mid-18thC Chinese export patterns with armorials in over-enamel? Green Fitzhugh? "Bleu Celeste" Sevres ice pail collectorss? Vieux Paris urns in Greco-Roman forms with Arab inspired decoration?

I'm sure there must be a DL china queen or two with a formidable collection of spill vases with stunning provenance (because FL will sometimes surprise), but the only china collecting references I ever see are pretty pedestrian wares.

Soooooo heavy. Such a bitch to pack and move.

Appurtenances

[quote] Many straight men have a definite problem with towels. They don’t use them or always use the wrong towel.

How does one use wrong towels?

Houseplants.

Toilet Paper

(Do six sets of china count?)

R15 Those Christmas dishes are really nice!

Hotel amenities.

(Thanks for reminding me R38.)

R40 how many? I may have you beat.

Tampons.

Grosgrain belts.

You can never have too many vowels.

Or scowls.

[quote]You Can Never Have Too Many Towels

All the fat guys at the bathhouse agree!

Eagles.

sunglasses

For bath towels four towels are all we need. Two for use, two waiting for laundry, all in constant rotation.

R44, I’d estimate between 250 and 300 in pots (excluding all the hydroponics and the cuttings starting in test tubes). They’re on floors, shelves, countertops, windowsills, racks, stands, and tables, as well as hanging in macrame, which I have a coordinate unbridled devotion to.

Shit. Seven sets. Forgot the Christmas set.

Vowels

(That's actually how I read this - you can never have too many vowels)

Nail clippers.

I must have 27, but can never find one when I need it.

Reading glasses.

Vodka - if it's a gay party.

Dollars

Democrats

Razors.

Why does it always seem I only have 1 or 2 left all the time and need to stretch out the use like it's the Depression?

You can never have too much bedding.

Kardashians, apparently.

R53, damn you sure are! That’s so cool. I bet they look lovely!

My cats won't let me have plants

You can never have too inches on your tool. Well maybe you’ll make a guy cry.

You can almost never add too much vanilla in a dessert recipe.

You can never have a clean home if you keep a dog in the house.

Turkey meatballs

R65, try hanging the plants to keep them out of the cats’ reach.

I feel like we're playing Family Feud.

I'm going to say Batteries? Final Answer.

Show me BATTERIES! AAAANNGGGGHH XXX

R25- What are you?

Upper class

Gentleman callers

Where are all the linen queens? I know I’m not the only one…

Linens^

You can never have too many bowels.

Top 40 albums,Coton de Tulears and antique lace (everything looks better trough lace).

Alibis.

[quote]little springs of flowers

Oh dear!

Calories

Another Linen Queen, here. But I'm also a China Queen.

I don't know which royal title takes precedence.

R39 Who among us has not had the unfortunate experience of walking in on a clueless straight man wiping his ass with the guest towels?

safety pins, clothes pins and hemorrhoid ointment

R82 Uh, I've never witnessed this.

The hell kind of parties are you hosting?

I've seen kids do it.

You can never have too much paisley!

Everyone loves paisley!

I'm both a linen queen and a dish queen. But I stopped collected years ago. I've been told my linen collection rivals Isabelle Adjani's but we focus on different stuff. I built a collection of all the different thread types and weaves in Europe in bourgeois and grand homes.

Dilators

Dolls. Fewer problems than real children!

[quote] You can never have too much paisley! Everyone loves paisley!

... and parsley. You can never have enough parsley.

[quote] ... and parsley. You can never have enough parsley.

Especially because some people don’t like the taste of cilantro.

As a young gayling I loved that little sprig of parsley on my mashed potatoes at Howard Johnson's. I always saved it for the end of the main course, to freshen my breath.

Once, in Richmond Virginia, I had to physically stop the waitress (?) (I don't remember busboys there) from clearing my plate before I ate it.

She said, "Ya ain't supposed ta eat it, ya know. It's fer decoration." So I had to school her on the purpose of a parsley garnish.

My horrified mother kicked me under the table and told the waitress we were both right, that one would need much more than that little sprig to truly freshen one's mouth.

The waitress looked at me and said, "Y'all need more, Hon?"

Towels

Cans of Crisco, and towels you don't mind ruining.

Sexy men.

I want to see R87’s collection!

Are you stealing them from the gym, OP?

Dolls. Fewer problems getting to work.

Jockstraps.

Well hung, skinny white boys..

Well hung, average size white boys.

Books.

Have you googled vasistone, r100?

I have now..

More please..