I have to be smart in these hard times.
I have two defective earphones. One is Philips and the other was a Pioneer. Each one has only one side of the earphones working. The other side is busted. I have to twist the coated wire several times to make it work. Then, a little head movement will cut off the sound again. Whenever I use either earphones, I can only hear music from one ear.
Will I buy a new pair of earphones?
I have been asking that question for months. I checked the stores. The ones I really like costs more than a thousand. I can settle for those that are about 500 pesos. But I remember buying my defective earphones at the same prize too and the last one was just less than a year ago. I don’t want to throw two branded earphones just because one side isn’t working. I want to squeeze out every cent that it was worth.
It is during these times that I need to be creative. Maybe it was the engineer in me that caught the idea. After thinking about it, I found a 30 pesos solution to revive my defective earphones.
I bought a spliter to create this equation. One defective earphones + one defective earphones = one good earphones. For just 30 pesos, I have music for both ears again.
Manokan Express 
Jinoe, desperate times require desperate measures. Congratulations for coming up with that brilliant idea (now, why did I not take up engineering in college?).
By: Nora, the golden girl on January 14, 2009
at 1:55 pm
I prefer earphones that would produce high quality sound. Among the good brands is Sennheiser. You can get 1 for less than P1k. It has also the pricey ones but they are worth it.
Pioneer and Philips are good brands but they pale in comparison to a Sennheiser in terms of durability and sound quality.
By: kinderdorf on January 14, 2009
at 4:25 pm
ey cool trick, buti na lang di ko pa na dispose my half dead earphones. but i fried my ipod again so i have been running without music for a couple of weeks now. i just sing more heheh
By: bards on January 14, 2009
at 8:45 pm
Wow! That’s awesome! You’ll have to teach me how to do that.
By: ganns on January 15, 2009
at 5:48 am
Boss Jinoe, Great Job! Iba talaga ang inhinyero…
Parang, “why didn’t I think of that…”
Anyway, you can expect the earphone prices to drop soon due to bad global economy, everybody’s saving their money. So it’ll be a good buy, but the question is, “do you need it?”
By: i2runner on January 15, 2009
at 6:20 am
hmmmm….good idea no? ha ha ha….very brilliant..may pagka intsik ka man gale boss jinoe.ha ha ha
By: Maldito on January 15, 2009
at 4:35 pm
hey jinoe that’s so genius of you. instead nga naman of buying a new pair of earphones, the splitter was the solution. i also have a problem with my earphone, parang may loose sa loob so every time na tumatakbo ako may naririnig ako na umaalog sa loob. hay, ipon muna ako. 🙂
By: itsmysocalledlife on January 18, 2009
at 8:12 pm