Bring Back Grunts and Postures
Donation protected
How many people miss Grunts and Postures? I know that I do. I discovered G&P in 1992 when I first moved to Salt Lake, and it was my favorite place to shop. Unique, inexpensive, and just, well....one of the coolest stores I had even been to. I was lucky enough to find so many life long friends from this store: people who worked there before me, the original owners Jane and Tim, and so many great customers and traders.
I was lucky enough to work there for almost a decade, and when the store was going to close down in 2004 (after Tim and Jane dissolved their partnership, I found a way to keep Grunts alive. Unfortunately this is just when the economy tanked and things were rough. We struggled for three years until my "just until then" silent partner took matters into his own hands and closed Grunts and Postures down, leaving me with a very hefty tax debt.
It has been my dream since then to re-open Grunts, and I devised a plan for the future and have been working very hard towards it, while raising my sons on my own. I planned to go back to school, get my Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, and then some day, reopen Grunts while also maintaining a private practice which would support me, while I was able to provide our community with the store that some people still think is operating, or others really miss. If I had a hundred bucks for every time I heard someone say, "I love Grunts and Postures--I haven't been there for a while!", I would have at least half of that tax debt paid off, and perhaps also we would have never shut down in the first place if "that person" shopped there if only once a year.
Now, I am beginning my internship, and in a year or so I will be practicing as a licensed mental health counselor, and hopefully be making a living wage. I need to chip away more at this tax debt (I pay what I can and have made a tiny bit of progress). I will not be able to reopen Grunts until this debt is cleared away...
So--if you want in some way to support G+P's return to SLC culture, now is your chance to show it.
Thanks so much for your consideration. xoxo
I was lucky enough to work there for almost a decade, and when the store was going to close down in 2004 (after Tim and Jane dissolved their partnership, I found a way to keep Grunts alive. Unfortunately this is just when the economy tanked and things were rough. We struggled for three years until my "just until then" silent partner took matters into his own hands and closed Grunts and Postures down, leaving me with a very hefty tax debt.
It has been my dream since then to re-open Grunts, and I devised a plan for the future and have been working very hard towards it, while raising my sons on my own. I planned to go back to school, get my Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, and then some day, reopen Grunts while also maintaining a private practice which would support me, while I was able to provide our community with the store that some people still think is operating, or others really miss. If I had a hundred bucks for every time I heard someone say, "I love Grunts and Postures--I haven't been there for a while!", I would have at least half of that tax debt paid off, and perhaps also we would have never shut down in the first place if "that person" shopped there if only once a year.
Now, I am beginning my internship, and in a year or so I will be practicing as a licensed mental health counselor, and hopefully be making a living wage. I need to chip away more at this tax debt (I pay what I can and have made a tiny bit of progress). I will not be able to reopen Grunts until this debt is cleared away...
So--if you want in some way to support G+P's return to SLC culture, now is your chance to show it.
Thanks so much for your consideration. xoxo
Organizer
Marguerite Casale
Organizer
Salt Lake City, UT