DIY, Upcycle,

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#under50dollars Lamp refashioned from old glass jars

Upcycle old glass jars from pastas and pickles into a beautiful lamp

In Sepetmber 2015, we launched the #Under50Dollars Challenge, our creative twist to #SG50, to commemorate the 50th birth-year of Singapore. It was devised for our readers to appreciate the inherent value of things used and old. If you have a good eye, enjoy upcycling… and have some dollars in the pocket, you too can join in and take up the challenge! Our latest entry comes from Neha Agrawal in Singapore. A banker by profession and …[Read more]

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E-Waste Recycling CNY collection drive at a community centre near you!

Recycle your e-Waste | Participate in the CNY collection drive organised by Singapore's SECDC at various community centres.

The Heartland e-Waste Recycling Programme is back in 2016! The project – a partnership between South East Community Development Council and Panasonic – creates additional collection points at centrally-located community centres on specified weekends. For every piece of e-waste recycled, vulnerable families receive energy-efficient light bulbs. So really, there is no excuse for you to chute your electronics! Anything that functions with an electric cord will be accepted. Though frankly, there is never any excuse …[Read more]

Events, Kids, Recycle / Upcycle, Upcycle,

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The Piggy Bank ClubWhere kids recycle, save and donate

Piggy Bank club where kids learn to recycle, save and donate

  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]

Tips and Guides,

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Tips 3 simple tricks to keep your guitar in mint condition

How to take care of your guitar without breaking the bank

Ever took the time to inspect the keyboard on your laptop after frequent use? Pretty gross, isn’t it? A thin layer of dust will have gathered between the spaces of each keys, there’s an orgy of fingerprints on your screen from all the times you excitedly pointed out new SecondsGuru ideas to your friends and you might even find a few greasy stains here and there from when you devoured that delicious BLT whilst “working” …[Read more]