5 stars. Decent price for 36 towels. Three colors makes it easy to alternate colors each day to make sure the right one lands in the laundry basket or (as I do) segregate by room/purpose. They clean nicely. Not enough to clean hard-water+soao-scum off a tub without serious scrubbing, but they do a darn site better than a sponge on my toaster oven. For basically clean stuff, they do a nice job with just water. For dusting, wow. I hate to use the word wow for cleaning supplies. But wow. I dusted my entertainment center with a very effective and rather expensive fancy bird-feather duster, then dusted with these towels a week later. I can't tell you exactly why, but my electronics look clean now. Before, they looked no-longer-dusty. Now they look clean, nearly new, noticeably so. The towels themselves are a very good size. Large enough to stitch a drawstring around the edge and attach to my swiffer mop, large enough to cut into 2 very useable towels, and certainly large enough to clean and dust, rotating often, and do a good amount of work with one towel (versus using up multiple towels and having to throw them in the laundry before reuse). Not that that's much of an issue, with a 36-pack, but I use 12-each for kitchen, bathroom, and general cleaning. Come summer, some will get parceled out to car care, others to dog drying and other miscellaneous jobs, so 12 of each color is a good 7-day supply for 3 zones, with a few lost to other tasks. I use the towels to manage different rooms, because I can do a 5-minute clean before bed to keep things pretty clean without a major, time-consuming job. Wipe down sinks and counters every night, and nothing gets terribly dirty. One towel color for the kitchen, 1 for the bathrooms, 1 for misc. cleaning (dusting, dog, floors, etc.), toss them in the washer, and I'm off to bed to wake up to a clean house. Seriously, I feel like a dork writing such a long review of cleaning towels, but these are impressive and they add more ease to my life than they cost. The towels themselves are pleasingly thick. They wash nicely (I use a mesh bag to keep them together). They are thick enough to scrub, thick enough to absorb moisture without saturating quickly, yet not water-repellant. I tried them on exterior windows (one left streaks, I'll try two next time; 1 to clean, 1 to dry/polish), interior mirrors (nice job), counters, switch plates, sinks, dusting, LCD screen, floors, sides of the toilet, tub - overall, very good, superior to terry towels, vastly superior to shop towels, superior to paper towels, generally superior to sponges - leaving my house cleaner. Initially, the novelty of a new item led to trying them on un-cleanable problems to see how they did. I have a 1970s toaster oven (which works like a champ, while every new toaster oven dies within 3 years), and it looks lousy. It's still dirty, but scrubbing with microfiber did much better than all of the cleaning chemicals and scrubbing I've tried before. I don't place a high value on cleaning and the next new cleaning "miracle," so the price was a lot to spend on cleaning towels. These have exceeded my expectations and I feel they were an excellent value and an excellent purchase. Next time I dust off the sewing machine, I'll stitch a couple of them into dusting mits, mini-towels, and potholders, and get even more value out of them, even with rudimentary sewing skill. Highly recommended. (EDIT: Probably not safe for pot-holders, might melt, though I haven't tried it)
