For Those Who Wear Glasses

[Janice]

Do you buy and have a lot of reading glasses?

I got prescription glasses and they kept breaking, so I trashed them.

Now I have so many pairs of Walgreens, etc. reading glasses in different strenghes.

I will eventually get another pair of prescription glasses.

I love the huge frames, so I found a site that sells them cheap. Now I have three pair of them. I am done now.

[coriolis]

I have reached that magic point in my life where I need bifocals. The weird thing is that I am still getting more nearsighted too. My present glasses are single vision for nearsightedness. I need a stronger prescription to see things far away and I have to take them off to read. What a pain!

[therock1811]

No. I just have, and need, the one pair. I do have a pair of non-prescription sunglasses for when I am away from home. But no reading glasses, and hopefully I won't need them til I'm 35 or 40.

[Terrell]

I have 2 pair of bi-focals, one pair of sunglasses and one normal pair.

[Cookiely]

I have one pair of no line trifocals and a set of pull on sunglasses to go over the top of them when I'm driving.

[angelwing]

I need to get new glasses, I'mnearsighted, need bifocals and have astigmatism..I'm a mess, lol

[Dee Bee]

I've been wearing bifocals since my early 40's. The older I become, the better my distance sight is getting (although my reading correction has crept up to 1.75).

I currently have 2 pairs of (prescriptive) glasses. One pair has magnetic clip-on sunglasses. If I'm wearing the other pair outdoors, I just pop a gigantic pair of drugstore sunglasses right over them. Thank goodness ultra-large sunglasses are back in fashion (or at least down here in SoFla they are)!

[Miss Mary]

Do you buy and have a lot of reading glasses?

I got prescription glasses and they kept breaking, so I trashed them.

Now I have so many pairs of Walgreens, etc. reading glasses in different strenghes.

I will eventually get another pair of prescription glasses.

I love the huge frames, so I found a site that sells them cheap. Now I have three pair of them. I am done now.

Your post is pretty much my exact answer except I wear the smaller frames, the narrow slit ones. Or what my kids would call Emo glasses.

I too buy cheap reading glasses. I keep them all over the place and I rarely rely on even 2 to get me by, more like 3 or 4 pairs. One in the car, 2 in my purse when I go to work or run errands (I can't even read price tags anymore, dang!).

What strength are you? I started with 1.25 at age 41, went to 1.50 quickly. Now I'm at 1.75 (almost age 51). I keep remembering what my FIL says - don't go too strong, otherwise your eyes will become accustomed to that strength and you can't go back. He's at 4.0 (age 83) and can't go stronger. I'm hovering near 2.0 though.

I love the reaction I get when I drop them - gasps, and people offering to pick them up! LOL When I say oh they're just cheap reading glasses, they laugh. Sure let's be hard on them....who cares (I am hard on them, I'll admit it). If I ever need Rx glasses, oh my, I will have to change my habits - my family finds my glasses all over the place. On their dressers if I'm putting away clothes or changing their sheets. That pair goes missing for days until they hand them to me - found your glasses Mom.....LOL

I didn't need them until I was 41 too! Hand me a menu or phone book and I am screwed. All I see are blurry words!

Mary

[Pburgh]

ROTFLMBO That's me too. I have glasses stationed everywhere. I've gone into a store and forgotten my glasses and have to buy a pair so I can do my shopping!!! I walk around the store with that little plastic tag hanging right between my eyes!!

[Miss Mary]

LOL @ Karan!

I never did that!!!!! Not - I have, I have......usually asking the cashier to cut the tags off! (and I can tell she's had to do this for other customers)

My pat phrase around here is - where are my glasses. It's pretty embarrassing when they're ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD!

I never used to be this forgetful.....he he

[Pburgh]

OMG, that always happens to me!!! I'm looking for my glasses and they are right on top of my head!!

[george_r_1961]

I started wearing bifocals last year after I noticed I was having trouble reading. Took me a while to get used to them but now im glad to have them.

[beachbum_al]

Do you buy and have a lot of reading glasses?

I got prescription glasses and they kept breaking, so I trashed them.

Now I have so many pairs of Walgreens, etc. reading glasses in different strenghes.

I will eventually get another pair of prescription glasses.

I love the huge frames, so I found a site that sells them cheap. Now I have three pair of them. I am done now.

Yes, I buy glasses but I do not have a lot of reading glasses. I have one pair that need to replace soon.

[DaylilyDawn]

I have worn glasses almost all my life. I am very nearsighted. If I take them off I can not see very well so I need glasses from begining of day to the end of day. last year I had to get new prescription and I ended up having to get trifocals, no line. I had to have a pair of sunglasses made with the same prescription. I can say I will not go back to Wal_mart to get my glasses again. The finish on the frames is already chipping off the pair I am wearing now.

[pojo]

I have one brandnew pair of reading glasses and another that have sand scratches (from the desert) that I had before I went over.... I still wear the scratched up pair every so often (they are normal glasses... not BCG's)... and along with that I have contacts which I wear constantly... I have the night/day contacts which you can wear to bed... I love them... no fighting with glasses/contacts in the morning! Thankfully my vision is really good without glasses on... I mainly need glasses for the slight astigmatism in my left eye and reading/computer work.