A consideration: I gave my mom very very nice thick towels one year, as she was still using some of the same towels we had when I was a kid. They were pretty thin. Later on, I noticed that she was not using the new towels, and had put them away in the highest shelf of the linen closet. I asked her why, and she said that they were pretty, but took forever to dry when she washed them, which was costing money on the electric bill. She also said the thin ones got her just as dry. So I no longer keep the super-luxe towels, either. Medium to light weight ones are more economical and less expensive. So BIFL is not necessarily an unmitigated good.