Thank You Barton Horowitz!

Today we were thrilled to have an article written about our store in the Staten Island Advance NORTH SHORE Paper.

The senior business writer/columnist Barton Horowitz wrote a wonderful article about our business. We were so excited!!! The only thing...we hated was having our picture taken. :(

Here's the Story:

Last week, before we opened the store at 10:00 AM, we spent everyday cleaning out someone's estate. We were a mess, hair in a ponytail, no makeup, clothes dirty, and sort of smelling like old boxes. Yuck! You know the picture!!!

After carrying in the boxes and cluttering up the front of our store {trying to sort through what was trash & what was treasure}, my sister answers the phone. She starts talking and is very excited. She tells the person on the other end that they need to speak with me. She hands the phone to me and mouths "It's the Advance and they want to do an article on our store". I take the phone and shout "YES!!!" Silently thinking..."Thank you God!"

The writer/reporter Mr. Barton Horowitz introduces himself and said that he read about us and how we started our business. He then says "Can I come down & take pictures of the store". I was like "Sure". He then said he wanted a picture of me, my sister, and my mother and could he come "NOW". I was thinking OMG "No". We need to take a "SHOWER".

Fortunately, my mother was not there. He said he really wanted the three of us (Mom to the rescue as usual). We arranged for him to come the next day.

I hung up the phone and said "Lorraine we need to clean the store & loose 20 lbs in the next 8 hours. Let's Go".
We ran around and cleaned the entire store. We even set up our Christmas Trees (we actually hadn't taken them all down...well it was only May) & I was figuring we would do "Christmas in July".

So I would like to share with you the wonderful article that Barton Horowitz wrote about our store. We reeeealllly appreciated it!!!

Thank you Barton Horowitz.

Warmest Regards,
Kathleen Sforza, Jeanette Sforza, and Lorraine Razzano

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