My wife has a relative that gave everyone in the family towels for Christmas. for each household got two bath towels, two hand towels, and two wash cloths. The bath towels were monogrammed. Looked nice. But with everything going on, my wife left them in the box until today and never looked that close at them. Now this relative works at a hotel. What my wife realized, the towels are hotel grade towels. Yep, monogrammed hotel grade towels. But the best part, it's very obvious that the towels aren't new. Yep, monogrammed old hotel towels.

Top that.

I think if they had a yellow, brown, red or green stain they should be relegated to the rag bin in the garage.

Alternatively, you could take a sharpie, cross out the current initials, write in the new initials and regift them back to them next year? Make a statement