Occasionally i see a drop box for donation your no longer needed prescription eye glasses, I think the Lions Club does this.
As I get safety glasses from work along with regular at home glasses I now have a box of eye glasses that I no longer use.
I have eye problems and even had surgery to correct my vision issues. I am legally blind without my glasses. That being said my glasses with the far out prescription (and prism for my double vision) that I require, are my glasses worth donating? I could see a more “normal” prescription helping some 3rd world kid see better, but I doubt my prescription would be useful to 1 in a billion person other than me.
More hassle for the Lions Club with glasses they can’t use if I donate, or just throw them away?
Perhaps the frames themselves could be fitted with new, or used lenses? I can imagine they might have a optician who can sort lenses by power and fit them to existing frames.
What does that statement have to do with the question posted? NOTHING, why don’t you keep your smart assed comments to yourself?
Better yet post a question about where the Lions Club sends the glasses and you can enlighten me with the correct answer instead of assuming they don’t get sent to 3rd world countries.
My gut tells me that you wouldn’t be burdening them with your frames and lenses, and that – if just one person could use ‘oddball’ lenses like yours – it might truly be life changing for that one person.
Wendell_Wagner made an accusatory assumption that I didn’t consider “first world” people as needing glasses. I never said that or implied that. I used 3rd world as an example as this is an area of the world that is in most need.
Wendell_Wagner posted a comment in the Factual Questions section that was not factual nor related to answering the question I posted.
Accusatory assumption + unwarranted/unnecessary/non-helpful comments directed toward me = a smartass comment.
I stand by my post.
Wendall_Wagner should receive a warning for posting comments/opinions unrelated to the original question posted in the Factual Questions secretion.
From now on if I have a issue with a poster and or comment made to one of my posts I will contact a moderator first instead of a public comment.
The general rule around here is attack the post, not the poster. You attacked the poster. That sort of hostility is not acceptable in any forum here except for the BBQ Pit.
If you wish to discuss moderator actions, do so in ATMB. Do not derail threads with discussions of moderation.
I originally responded via email (as the warning came to me through email) thinking it was going to Chronos privately, not publicly posted as happened. After finding out it was posted, but too late to edit I PM’d Chronos stating it wasn’t supposed to be a public comment regarding my warning, just explaining to them why I did what I did, and asked them to remove that part of the post. I am still waiting for it to be removed as I had asked. I was unaware of that function of the ATMB but now know.