Mr. Klein Your Underwear
We don't separate our underwear from the rest of our laundry. We throw it in with like colors, turn the washing machine on and call it a day (well, until we have to take it out). If we did wash our...
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Wrap up Headphones with an ID-Badge Clip
It's easy to wrap headphones in a ziplock when you're storing them in the house or to use a little chain sinnet to keep the long cord under control while you're using it. But this easy DIY solution h...
Use a Beer Box for Organizing Cords
As long as there are cords on this great Earth (we're still waiting on our entirely wireless life), there will be clever and creative solutions for keeping them stocked, stowed and untangled....
Japanese Machine Turns Office Paper Into Toilet Paper
Although this isn't yet a fully developed application for homes, it might become at some point in the future. We were really amazed at how this Japanese machine could turn discarded paper into toilet ...
Wow! Pendant Lamps from Printer Ink Cartridges
Who knew trash could look this good? Gorgeous hanging lamps made from used printer ink cartridges make us wonder what kind of creative genius could come up with this—they're from an Etsy seller...
The Airigator Captures AC Unit Water for Use Later
The Los Angeles Times L.A. at Home blog had this great heads up post about a water recycling technology solution which could result in saving 5 gallons of perfect, mineral-free water for resuse in the...
Old Vinyl LP's Make for One Badass Room Divider
From Anne and Todd's Gropius Meets Victorian House Tour in Jamaica Plain, this clever little DIY room divider certainly takes the crown, both in terms of aesthetics and functionality, compared to any ...
September: Most Popular Old Tech Reuse/Recycle
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1 Beats on Tape: iPod Cases Get Green(er) 2 The CubeQuarium Made From a PowerMac G4 Cube 3 Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take Stage 4 How To: Give New Life to Vintage Tech THE LIST CONTINUES… ...
Freecycle.org Proves Treasure Can Be Found Anywhere
Speaking of donating electronics, a few months back, we wrote about how hard it was just trying to get rid of your old CRTs and how nobody wanted to touch those old tech items if you happen to not hav...
Cassette's Not Dead Lamps Recycle Your Music
So here's where your whole back catalog of bad 80's hair metal audio cassettes and mixtapes went! The Cassette's Not Dead Floor Lamp is described as a tribute to the cassette tape, available in thre...
Recycle Your X-Mas Lights for a Discount on LED Strings
We fully encourage our readers to go green when it comes to their home and recycle everything that can be recycled. Now you get the chance to do both&mdashand save some cash!...
The Green Go-To Guide for Gadget Recycling
Nobody hates the environment. It's just that some of us have a hard enough time worrying about ourselves and our families to think about caring for Mother Nature 24 hours a day. But that's where Unplg...
The Mobile Office: A Home Office Made of Discarded Materials
Antoine Morris and David Long of The Practice of Everyday Design wanted to create an all-in-one solution where they could rest, read, work on their laptops in a small, easy to convert space. What th...
How To: Reuse Old Light Bulbs as a Flower Vase
DIY YouTube star, Giannina Lezcano, show us how to reuse old clear-style light bulbs as decorative elements around the house. And don't blame us for what she's wearing......
Gazelle: Recycle Your Electronics For Cash
When it comes to old electronics, the usual options are: donate it (great idea but we paid a lot of money for this); recycle it (it's only a few years old, and we'd like to get some money for it); or...
Cable "Gutter" From a $4.99 Ikea Hanger Rack
Moving affords you the opportunity to re-purpose your old stuff (When I downsized to a smaller workspace, my Ikea Mikael desk was cut down to become a coffee table). If you're moving to a warm climate...
Craigslist: Buy vs. Best Buy
As people are busy keeping up with the Jones' they leave a wake of discarded technology behind them and more often than not those things are ending up on Craigslist. Everyone loves a bargain, but ...
Make a MacBook Stand From Its Packaging
We love it when we can save stuff from a life in a landfill and use it to make our lives better, more beautiful or more efficient. Apple knows this better than anyone and consistently puts out great l...
Reused Empty Inkjet Cartridges Lighting
Etsy seller boxlightbox couldn't bear tossing out the abundance of inkjet cartridges her workplace would go thru on a regular basis, so she began taking them with the motive of making something out ...
Panasonic Ups the Ante with Greener CRT Recycling
We've covered a variety of methods when it comes to recycling our old CRT TVs (heck, you can even turn them into pots). But it looks like Panasonic's about to up the ante when it comes to the actual m...
Use Rain Gutters to Wrangle Under-Desk Wires
BEFORE. Click here for the "after" shot.Above is the "before" shot of Lifehacker reader Seandavid010's tangled mess of a desk. But he got a new desk and a new outlook on cord management when he decide...
6 Household Uses For Recycling Old Mouse Pads
It's a strange realization to have on a random Wednesday morning, but I just noticed that I haven't seen a spongy square mouse pad in many years. Now that optical mice are de rigeur, you don't really ...
An Ugly Sweater Party For Your Laptop
Who says employees at holiday Christmas parties get to have all the fun? Doesn't your laptop, surely a better friend to you than that guy from IT, deserve to have a little bit of "I've-been-searching-...
Old Computer Sitting Around? Check Out all Your Options...
Computers are no longer the fancy new gadgets they used to be. We're getting bomarded with new shiny features everyday, but let's face it, the computer is no spring chicken. All across America, there ...
Another OMG Really? Recycled Home Appliance
This bad-ass, uber-modern, glass-topped, inner-lit side table (we couldn't narrow down exactly which two-parter hyphenated description to use for it) was once a part of a common—well, not in NYC...
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