Circular Thrift LLC

Circular Thrift LLC The goal of Circular Thrift is to scale the re-use of clothing and through hyper local solutions.

A coffee shop opened a year ago this week in Old Town East. Prudence and Rick are the owners. I write and talk about t...
06/02/2026

A coffee shop opened a year ago this week in Old Town East. Prudence and Rick are the owners. I write and talk about the importance of building community. These people are SO good at it. In twelve months they have created a space where everyone is seen and feels welcome. People bring them gifts. People come to them to share their good news or their troubles. Anyway, a while back they mentioned potentially organizing a small festival to celebrate this milestone. I showed up several months ago with a deck, hoping they would let me participate. It was magical. These people, Rick and Prudence are magical. The feeling of being part of a community is magical. I feel overflowing gratitude to be some small part of all of this.

Last week, I had the pleasure of joining Brett Langolf at the Drexel Theatre for a screening of his film, Generation : C...
05/31/2026

Last week, I had the pleasure of joining Brett Langolf at the Drexel Theatre for a screening of his film, Generation : Cure. Watching it again, I was reminded of how powerfully the film captures Chad Eddy’s journey to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis. Chad is the perfect example of a truly purpose-driven human fighting for real-world change.

That is exactly what I love about working with Brett—he has a unique gift for drawing incredible, mission-driven people into his circle.

As co-producers on our upcoming docuseries about the history of fashion and the environment, I am always grateful to collaborate with him. I’m happy to be at the Drexel Theatre supporting his work anytime, but I have to admit—I am going to be absolutely thrilled when we are standing there together for a showing of OUR film.

These totes have been fun to make and sell. Find us at farmers markets (upcoming Bexley Farmers Market on May 28th), at...
05/26/2026

These totes have been fun to make and sell. Find us at farmers markets (upcoming Bexley Farmers Market on May 28th), at the Light Meeting House festival on May 30th, at On Paper in the Short North, and at our Etsy store.

If you keep buying them we will keep making them. Locally. From post consumer textile waste. Let's go.

Rick and Prudence, founders of The Light Meeting House, are truly amazing. I hate it when people loosely use that word ...
05/24/2026

Rick and Prudence, founders of The Light Meeting House, are truly amazing. I hate it when people loosely use that word amazing. Carelessly throw it around. But they are really amazing amazing. They are community builders. Everyone who enters their coffee shop feels seen. They bring out the best in the humans they interact with. People bring them things. Because of how Rick and Prudence treat us we all stand up a little bit straighter.

I'm excited about their upcoming festival on May 30th. This is a community event and commemorates one year since the opening of The Light Meeting House. There will be music, crafts, art, repairing, snacks, all of the things. 8am to 3pm. Come.

This year, graduating Bexley High School students had the option to rent their graduation gowns instead of purchasing th...
05/21/2026

This year, graduating Bexley High School students had the option to rent their graduation gowns instead of purchasing them. Graduation gowns are a notorious single-use item, usually produced from fossil-fuel-based fibers that don't biodegrade.

A high school senior led the project to reevaluate this process and drive some real systems change. Circular Thrift is honored to be part of this community and will be helping to collect gowns after the ceremony this Sunday.

Find the marked bins as you exit. Congrats and best of luck to all of you fabulous graduates!

Flower Pounding belongs in the mending category, but it is so much more. There are elements of Shiva here—the destructio...
05/19/2026

Flower Pounding belongs in the mending category, but it is so much more. There are elements of Shiva here—the destruction of a flower to re-create its image on a canvas (in this case, a soiled t-shirt or a discarded textile).

There is a deep kinetic relief in the pounding of mallets. It’s a process of violent renewal, where the energy used to destroy the bloom is the exact energy required to create the art.

Join us for our next Flower Pounding adventure. We’ll be at the Light Meeting House on Saturday, May 30th, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Bring your problems, your anxiety, and maybe a tote bag or t-shirt you’d like to restore. Let’s work it all out together.

COLUMBUS COMMUNITY & FILM LOVERS: This Tuesday night at the Drexel...I am so proud to support my marvelous co-producer a...
05/17/2026

COLUMBUS COMMUNITY & FILM LOVERS: This Tuesday night at the Drexel...

I am so proud to support my marvelous co-producer and award-winning filmmaker, Brett Langolf, for a special community screening of his short film, GENERATION: CURE.

Inspired by a local community that ran 65 miles in 65 hours to fight cystic fibrosis, this film is a deeply moving testament to what collective action can achieve.

🗓️ Tuesday, May 19th at 7:00 PM
📍The Drexel Theatre (Theater 1)
🎟️ Admission: FREE!

Seeing Brett's mastery behind the lens makes me even more thrilled for what we are building next.

Right now, Brett and I—alongside the history department at The Ohio State University—are deep in production on our own collaborative project: Tangled Threads.

Our upcoming docuseries unweaves 300 years of fashion production history to give consumers the fact-based material literacy they need to change how we interact with what we wear.

Come out to the Drexel Theatre this Tuesday to witness Brett’s incredible storytelling firsthand, support an important cause, and get a glimpse of the creative engine driving our next big story.

See you there!

Socks are a great entry point for products which use post consumer textile fiber as input. Smartwool was a major driver...
05/17/2026

Socks are a great entry point for products which use post consumer textile fiber as input. Smartwool was a major driver of a successful pilot which started during the pandemic. Nobody thought they could do it (say the people who were involved and actually did it together... ha ha!) but they did it. In North Carolina, which is still considered the heart of textile innovation for the United States, a whole circular economy is growing which is focused on domestic solutions to end of life textiles. We should all learn more about this industry and support it as we are able.

Thank you Manufacturing Solutions Center for the lovely swag =). I hope to visit again soon!

Circularity is a mindset that applies to every system—from the clothes we wear to the containers we carry. (And yes, a s...
05/14/2026

Circularity is a mindset that applies to every system—from the clothes we wear to the containers we carry. (And yes, a sense of humor is required for systems change!

In my "spare time," I chair the Bexley Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee, where we were recently awarded a SWACO grant to launch Bexley Reuse. This summer, six local restaurants will pilot a re-usable stainless steel container program to eliminate single-use waste at the source.

Why am I sharing this on the Circular Thrift page? Because whether it's a remanufactured sweatshirt or a reusable bowl, we are testing the same theory: Can a community build a low-impact, circular economy from the ground up?

Huge thanks to The Bexley Torch for the feature! Check out the full story of how we’re closing the loop in Bexley: https://bexleytorch.org/2026/05/11/restaurants-join-reusable-container-program/

This was swag from what my friends have, rather derisively, referred to as 'my superbowl'.... the inaugural Textiles Rec...
05/12/2026

This was swag from what my friends have, rather derisively, referred to as 'my superbowl'.... the inaugural Textiles Recycling Expo which took place week before last at the Charlotte Convention Center. Steven Bethel, founder of Bank & Vogue, is who bestowed this item to me. He has been thinking and talking about the idea of remanufacture for more than two decades now. We all should listen to him. Plus he wears an enormous hat and and is generally very cool.

I'm continuing to learn more about the opportunity for remanufactured products to be really good. covetable. So well done that where the materials came from isn't the main story.

This is a huge white space for creatives and for forward thinking businesses who have dead stock inventory somewhere. What could it become next?

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