This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni is unpacking the dangers of the impulse buy – how this kind of shopping (for the sake of shopping) is detrimental to sustainability, and tips for how to be a more conscious & intentional consumer of fashion. 

This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni is focusing on the state of physical retail in 2022. Despite the ease and endless possibilities that come with shopping online, Eleni has many reasons for continuing to shop in person, from the joy of touching clothing to supporting local businesses and your community.

This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni shines a light on mending your clothes. Rather than hiding this craftsmanship away, she’s exploring the world of visible mending, which has a rich history with multiple techniques to choose from.

This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni evaluates New Year’s Resolutions and the unnecessary criticism of others that can arise from lofty goals. Instead, she suggests that we celebrate the incremental changes that others achieve, and advocate for large-scale change from the institutions and systems that should provide it.

This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni is facing the new year head on with a new blog on starting new projects!! Yes, that sentence did have “new” in it three times, and yes, it’s appropriate. 😉

This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni has a tale of how an unexpected gift can become one’s greatest treasure – offering an alternative way of viewing clothes and their impacts on our lives.

This week in our Making It Work series, we’re exploring the world of “greenwashing” with Eleni – the term for marketing & branding campaigns that prey on our desires for good and capitalize on the profit without actually accomplishing… anything.

This past weekend, our favorite blogger Eleni sat down with Thrift 2 Fight Co-Founder Jillian Reed to discuss the opening of the new T2F store. Together, they discuss the history of T2F, all of the exciting things that made a physical T2F store possible, and the dreams and plans for this new storefront in Tivoli, NY.

This week in our Making It Work series, Eleni is focusing on a seasonal oddity that is both hilarious & troublesome at the same time – the Ugly Sweater. In addition to explaining the damaging environmental consequences of fast fashion capitalizing on this trend, Eleni also gives us some sustainable ways to create and enjoy “ugly” sweaters without harming the planet.

In this weeks blog post in our Making It Work series, Eleni is tackling the age-old question – what is my size? Turns out, the answer to this is annoying and elusive, thanks to an unfair and un-inclusive system permeating the fashion industry.