Misc. Goods Co.

09/17/2026

One week only.

09/07/2026

09/04/2026

We’ve been going to so many events lately we need our boy woods at nite to paint another back drop 😮‍💨

08/28/2026

We’d love to tell you this was all according to plan.
That when we started designing Greyhaven we knew we had a best-seller on our hands. We didn’t.
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We we’re just trying to capture a particular place... rain on the coast, wet moss, pine trees, salt in the air. Which is a fairly ridiculous thing to attempt with a bottle of scented liquid, but here we are.
Then people started finding their own things in it.
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A place they’d been. A person they knew. A memory they couldn’t quite name. Or, occasionally, just: “Damn, this smells good.”
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Fair enough.
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That’s the funny thing about fragrance. We can fuss over ingredients and tell you what inspired it. We can write paragraphs about coastal rain and pine needles.
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But once you put it on, Greyhaven isn’t really ours anymore.
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You get to decide what it smells like.

08/25/2026

Last call for Bar Soap.

Our pre-order closes tomorrow night. After that, we count everything up, make the batch, and the soaps disappear again for a while.

All six fragrances are available: Greyhaven, Kings Market, Meadowland, Nameless Earth, Underhill and Valley of Gold, sold in packs of four.

One more way to bring your favorite fragrance into the everyday.

https://misc-goods-co.com/products/daily-bar-soap?Scent=%22Underhill%22+%2822+oz+%2F+4+bars%29

08/17/2026

For the first time in a while, I looked around and realized we weren’t just surviving.

Funny how long it can take to notice.

After working hard through July and August, I woke up to the realization that we had our best 30-day stretch of online sales ever. Summer is supposed to be slow. Everyone knows this. The bank account gets smaller. Not this year. From July 13 to August 12, we actually outperformed last November. November! The month with Black Friday and holiday shopping. Insanity.

So what does this mean? Well, for one, I didn’t have to take out a microloan in July. In fact, I haven’t had to take out a loan at all this year. This may not sound very exciting, but I assure you, not borrowing money is one of the great thrills of owning a small business. Most retail businesses like ours spend the first eight months of the year watching the bank account get smaller and smaller, trusting that fall will eventually arrive and save us from ourselves.

Last year we took out two loans just to keep the lights on long enough to make it to the holidays. The year before that, I almost closed the doors completely. Small business!

This year is different. I’m hesitant to say that too loudly because I’ve learned that running a business is a wonderful way to become superstitious. There’s still plenty of work ahead and plenty that could go wrong. But for now, the lights are on, nobody loaned us new money to keep them on, and we’re heading into fall with a little wind at our backs.

That feels pretty remarkable. And we have all of you to thank for it.

08/12/2026

The end of an era. Take a little piece of Misc. Goods history with you by shopping our last stock of solid cologne. We won’t be bring it back — at least in this fashion ever again.

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07/31/2026

Setting up for our first trade show of the season here in Chicago. These shows are a little different than the craft markets we normally do. Instead of meeting customers directly, we’re spending a few days introducing Misc. Goods to retailers from around the world. Every conversation is a chance to get our fragrances into a new city, a new neighborhood, or a little shop where someone might discover us for the very first time. Here’s hoping this booth finds a few new homes.

07/27/2026

Headed back to Louisville from a pop up in Austin.

Quick reminder that today’s the last day to snag our limited release fragrance Greyhaven At Night.

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07/26/2026

Night isn’t around forever.