Sometimes you have to fall back on using an old pair of prescription eyeglasses. Maybe you lost your current pair. Maybe you broke them. Maybe you normally wear contacts but lost one. Whatever. You put up with using an old pair from a prior prescription until you can get a new eye exam and new glasses.
Suppose that a rich slightly demented person offers you money to revert to using an old pair from two prescriptions ago for one day? The rich person is doing this to satisfy his own bizarre sense of amusement.
Does your daily rate change for if you have to do it for a week? For a month? For longer?
Not a problem. I get a free exam every year and buy glasses cheap online. The degradation of my vision seems to have slowed in recent years and I’ve been getting essentially the same frames every time I change prescriptions, so the difference between my current and last pair is minimal.
Great question! I dread the day I get pinkeye and have to wear my glasses to work. ANY of my prescriptions makes my eyes look tiny and pulls in the side of my face. I’m not good-looking on my best day and this is a nightmare scenario!
At least you are not proposed we have to wear styles from when we were younger – as kids we had to pick from the frames covered by my father’s insurance and they were not pretty. Blue, maroon, temples that swooped up from the bottom corners of the frames. Not to mention you can’t see what the darn things look like when trying them on!
I would be more concerned with being able to see than if I look “pretty” or not. And I am not a vain person anyway. If other people don’t like the way I look, too bad!
Considering that my prescription hasn’t substantially changed in like a decade, I’d happily forego the contacts for a day and wear my old glasses for as little as say… $25.
Past that, and my price would go up significantly; I like my contacts and am not a particular fan of wearing glasses otherwise.
I basically do it for a portion of every day, since I got new prescription glasses in April, but my prescription sunglasses are several years old. My biggest issue right now is that I switched to progressive lenses, so reading would be more difficult with my old glasses, but I just up the font size on my monitor or Kindle.
I am wearing glasses from 2 prescriptions ago. The glasses I’m wearing now, I got in high school but the next year I switched to contacts. I didn’t get an exam again until the middle of college and I opted to get the contacts updated but forego the glasses since the update was not significant and I was only wearing the glasses at bedtime. Then a few years ago, I started having irritation associated with the contacts so I stopped wearing them and went back the glasses full time.
So, I guess I’d have to pick the for free option. But any day, I should be getting a new pair of glasses with an updated prescription which is very exciting.
I wear glasses full time now, since my prescription is too bad for contacts anymore, so the glasses part doesn’t bother me. I’d have to sit home and not doing anything, though, because I wouldn’t be able to see a thing with a prescription from 2 years ago.
I currently do that all the time, so I guess I would do it for free. My prescription barely changes and I have various glasses of different vintages. Which pair I use depends on what I am doing.
The last two times I had an actual ophthalmologist refract my eyes, the Rx was so out of whack, I couldn’t see with the new glasses, and I demanded that they issue me a repeat Rx based on the lenses that were in my old glasses, which seem to work fine. In other words, send me to a OD and give me a new Rx, and you’d have to pay me to use them. And it’s now Zenni all the way.
If you’ve had cataract replacement, your Rx should, theoretically, never change for the rest of your life, and my ODs agreed with that, and gave me a repeat of my old Rx.
For hanging around the house or doing yardwork, I could handle my prescription from two ago. (Actually two ago, which I still have as a backup, is better than the prescription from one ago, which I tossed).
The thing is, I have really screwed up eyes, and about a year ago, I went from doing tolerably well with glasses to needing scleral contacts. So even with glasses on, I’m worse than the 20/200 legally blind threshold. I guess it says something about my vision history that I consider this acceptable for daily life, but I can only wear the contacts about 12 hours a day, so I spend a few hours a day wearing those glasses no matter what and if my eyes are irritated by allergies I might wear them all day on the weekends… anyway, there is no way in hell I could work that way. I didn’t switch to the scleral lenses until I was literally holding pieces of paper four inches away from my eyes.
So… I’d need about $500 to replace an average day of lost work, but doing it on the weekends would not be so different from what I do for free already. $50 would probably be fine.
I didn’t bother voting because I wear my glasses from 3 prescriptions ago to watch TV in bed. My distance vision hasn’t changed a lot, and even my close vision is only slightly worse than it was. I just happen to have great vision insurance, so I get new specs annually for almost nothing.
But if someone wants to pay me, I’ll take $50, then take my sweetie out to dinner one night.
I don’t have any of my old prescriptions around anymore.
Been on my current glasses for 10 years, but I just had a checkup this week and they are only very very slightly changed in my right eye. I’ll probably buy new ones because the anti-glare coating is starting to wear off the old ones.
But my eyes are such that I don’t wear my glasses except for distance. So at home they sit in the medicine cabinet all day. In the office they sit on my desk.
Two prescriptions ago was before my lasik surgery started to reverse itself, so I had nearly 20/20 vision. I’d wear those nonexistent glasses for free.
I couldn’t do it, my prescription changed drastically when I had cataract surgery for my left eye and a corrective lens was implanted. I wouldn’t be able to see well enough to drive or even function.
No way. I’m very nearsighted in my right eye and slightly farsighted in my left. With both eyes open I’m fine.
My last pair of glasses were purchased 42 years ago (I was 16). I’ve never worn them, but I keep them in my glove compartment and put them on if I get pulled over for speeding. I can’t see worth shit with them on.
Meh, my last few prescriptions just slightly fluxuated. But I mostly wear contacts anyway. Glasses are just for night when I’ve taken those out for the day.
To answer my own poll, my prescription changed a far bit between two prescriptions ago and my previous pair. I would have to squint mightily with one eye and nearly close the other. Give me $50 and I’d do it for a day. But I wouldn’t keep that up for a week or longer with a lot more money.
Wouldn’t be able to drive a car, to work or see my monitor with the 10+ year old glasses so I’d have to take a day off or if it was already a day off waste it with having access to a very limited set of entertainment options. Something like 300-500 euro might do it.