People who know, say you can’t go…to Home Goods again

Growing up, the pinnacle of Black auntiehood (which is gender-neutral and transcends almost all socio-economic levels of Blackness) was the weekly trip to Marshall’s. Whether you were a working class auntie working swing shift in a call center, a stay-at home auntie with a husband with two jobs or the auntie who sits on a board of trustees and just got her doctorate—auntiedom and Marshall’s go together like a fridge full of Trader Joes food and having no ingredients to make dinner.