Thoroughly cleaning them, that is. There was so much crud under the nosepieces, I had to face the fact that I couldn’t get it out even with a pin.
So I got out a tiny, tiny screwdriver and unfastened one of them. So if it turns out I can’t put it back on, I’m only half-screwed. Hee hee.
The screw and the nosepiece are soaking in rubbing alcohol right now, and I’m wearing my cool-ass grunge-era hornrims. And my god, is this prescription out of date. It’s like looking through a fisheye lens.
Okay, the left nosepiece is back on, and tighter than before. Also, I’m thinking that if this works out, I’ll take the lenses out and thoroughly clean the rims.
Here goes the right…
Hmm … I should probably do the same. I mean, at least go under the nosepieces with a pin. And maybe around the lens-rim interface as well.
When I clean my safety glasses it always creeps me out to really see how much crud is trapped in all the nooks and crannies. Kind of surprises me that I don’t have horrific acne across my cheeks and bridge of my nose, since the safety glasses are honkin’ huge plastic frame types that sit holding all that gunk right on my face.
I always donate my old ones to the charity box at the spec place, though, so I get to wear my sunglasses and look really cool while I’m degunkifying. 
Okay, the right nosepiece is back on. And of course, I dropped the screw at one point, but I found it with no real problem. And the earpiece kept falling on me while I was trying to get everything aligned.
Now to remove the lenses. And I have got to get out of these 1992 glasses! They’re giving me a headache.
And that is it! I can see clearly now; the crud is gone…I can see all popsicles in my way…
I almost never really wash my glasses, because my wearing of them is limited to about an hour at most per day, if I’m reading in bed after taking my contacts out. But I had a glasses crisis last night, when I couldn’t find them. I’d stayed in a hotel last night before flying home for the summer, and thought I might have left them at the hotel. I have insanely bad vision and can see approximately an inch in front of my face (no exaggeration) without any sort of corrective lens, so loosing the specs would be a huge inconvience, as I’d need to waste the money to replace them.
But all was well, because I found them.
That was a very mundane story.
About once a month I have to take the lenses out, and then run a tissue around the rim of each lens where it set in the frame. It’s amazing how much crud builds up there!
I’d do my nosepieces as well, but one nosepiece has hairline cracks that seem to be held together by a tenacious cheese-like substance. I’m sure that cleaning it would only cause it to lose structural integrity.
I use an old toothbrush.