Shikha Lamba is a Hong Kong based mumpreneur who has been featured on Secondsguru as an expert at upcycling and reinventing old, often forgotten jewellery [Shikha Lamba: The jewellery transformer]. What we inadvertently missed mentioning in our cover story on Shikha is the adorable movement started by her, aptly called, “The Piggy Bank club”. So what is the Piggy Bank Club, Hong Kong? It’s a recycling activity club with a social purpose whose members meet …[Read more]
The Piggy Bank ClubWhere kids recycle, save and donate
#Savetheplanet Easy resolutions which are worth keeping!
Tired of making (and breaking!) the same old resolutions? Buck the trend with our checklist that is easy on your will power and the planet’s resources! -Team Secondsguru
Happy New Year!
Time to recycle the old calendars! 2015 was a watershed year for Secondsguru – it gave me and Lara some of our busiest, longest, craziest, and even the most disorienting instructive days! We now look forward to a 2016 where we can turn all that we learned – from the people we met, the experiences we had, and the sites we surfed 😉 – into fodder for this blog. Wishing you all a Happy New …[Read more]
#passitforward Donate excess food to Singapore charities
Calling all in Singapore to look into their kitchen cabinets! Do you have food items that you won’t be using anytime soon, or in fact never? Perhaps you over-bought at the supermarket attracted by a discount, and the food packets will expire soon? Maybe some biscuits and cakes that were gifted to you, but you don’t fancy the flavour? Any excess canned food, chips, etc that you would like to clear out of your cabinets? …[Read more]