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[caption id="attachment_6451" align="alignright" width="225"] Warm blankets for a snowy day on sale at the Shop[/caption] by Jennie Reichman My dear friend who lives in western Washington State gets very excited every time we have a major snowstorm in Vermont. She emails me or texts me, “You got...
[caption id="attachment_6431" align="alignright" width="225"] Art mimicking life for sale at Experienced Goods![/caption] by Jennie Reichman, Shop Staff The excitement of the holidays has given way to January and we’re gazing down the long road of winter. As we embark on a new year, the darkness and cold...
by Jennie Reichman Looking back over the articles I have written for this newsletter, I've noticed how I tend to track time by the seasons and what is going on in the natural world. January: It’s snowing. Again. March: Snowing, but the light is shifting toward...
by Jennie Reichman The other day I wore something I wouldn’t have been caught dead in a few years ago: high-waisted jeans. I freely admit that I am a clotheshorse, a fashionista, a follower of trends. I do draw the line at dressing as if I...
by Jennie Reichman It happened in early August while I was out on my morning run, an incongruent splotch of scarlet on the grey pavement at my feet. Summer was in full swing, the air was warm and humid at 6:30 am, but there on the...
by Jennie Reichman Hello, and welcome to Experienced Goods! Face mask? Check. Hand sanitizer? Check. Willingness to maintain the six-foot distance protocol? Check. So excited to be shopping again at the world’s best thrift store you can barely stand it? Double check!! On Tuesday, July 7,...
From Experienced Goods Thrift Shop by Jennie Reichman I saw a t-shirt in a catalog once that had two words on it: Do. Be. Under that it said, “Do-Be-Do-Be-Do-Be-Do! Frank Sinatra.” As the pinnacle of a Vermont summer approaches and, like the bears I wrote about...
by Jennie Reichman Sometimes it seems like almost everyone from Brattleboro and the surrounding towns shops at Experienced Goods. On any given day, a broad cross section of people from our community donate and purchase items from our shelves and racks and linger in the store...