I don’t often wear mine; but then, I’m not at all disabled without them, since I have one good eye that compensates for the bad one. I only ‘need’ them when reading or looking at screens. I like the way I look without them on my face better, and they’re a bother to always remember.
My husband finally succumbed to the nagging and went to the eye doctor recently. His glasses came in yesterday, and now I’m paranoid that he won’t find me quite as lovely as he claims I am! (And I tried his glasses on, and find myself to be a little hypocritical. His distance prescription makes things look so much clearer and crisper! I guess I need to hie myself to the optical center too…)
Also, around here it’s the Lion’s Club that accepts used glasses for charity. In addition to prescription lenses, they also seem to accept OTC reading glasses. For several years now, my mom has given me all of my dad’s readers when he doesn’t need them, based on her notion that, at my age, I surely must need reading glasses. I gave up arguing with her and just donate about a dozen pairs per year to the Lions.
I believe they go to third world countries. So yes, something that works is better than nothing.
And you do realize that the dollar store could provide Hubster with his spare pair for a buck, right?
Another problem for me is that I don’t know where to keep them. The obvious answer is on my face, but since they are more hindrance than help 90% of the time, that’s hardly an option. The clothes that I normally wear don’t have enough room for them, and those holster things look ridiculous. It’s easier in the winter when I can put them in a coat pocket. At least when I go on vacation I can put them in my carry-on.
My husband has the problem of where to keep his readers when he is doing construction work. He asked me to find him one of those neck chains that holds glasses, and I haven’t been successful - they are all feminine. He loses about one pair a month. I tend to wear my readers on top of my head, sometimes forgetting and adding a 2nd pair. I buy numerous $1 glasses in Dollar Tree stores, but they disappear in my house just like the nail clippers and socks!
A friend just showed me a trick - bend your index finger until you have just a tooth pick diameter space to look through, and you can more easily read something.
Oh, and I like how Macaroni Grill restaurants keep a tray of reading glasses by the tables. All restaurants should do this.
I need glasses for distance but I cannot wear them when working on the computer. As a result I lose them all the freaking time.
I deal with it by leaving my glasses in the car where they’re vitally important and just getting closer to the front in meeting rooms where they could be occasionally important.
This. I’m so used to walking around without them that, as the optometrist pointed out, “you think the world is naturally half blurred.” When I tried on my brand spankin’ new bifocals the difference was so dramatic I was speechless :eek:
I’m supposed to wear mine all time now, but because I’m so used to not wearing them, I’m liable to forget they exist…until I try to read something, that is.
Say what?
I can’t imagine not wearing my glasses. I can’t read anything but the largest billboards without them and even something like putting toothpaste on my toothbrush is a bit of a challenge. I wear progressive trifocals, and unless I’m in the shower or going to sleep, they’re on my face.
Of course, I don’t much care what I look like, either. I don’t buy whatever frames are in style - I get what I like and what I’m comfortable in. If someone’s going to make judgements about me because of my eyewear, I probably don’t want to waste my time on that person anyway.
This explains it better:
"If you forget your glasses and absolutely have to read something quick, you can make a lens with your fingers and read one word at a time. Put your thumb, index finger and middle finger together to form a little hole. Look through this hole and make it smaller and smaller until it turns into a circle … then you can read fine print, prices, signature and info boxes on forms and the like. It’s very easy to do but you look like some kind of moron because other people (most people) don’t understand that you can do this. [You have to put your hand against your face too.] It’s a matter of physics … the way light bends around the edges of small holes.
Oh yes. I’m blind in one eye so I guess if you have two eyes you better close one. If you try this with one hole for each eye, i.e. (eieio) use two hands against your face … you’ll probably get hauled off to the “bin” ;o) … And you wouldn’t be able to “microscope out” anything that close with two eyes anyway."
Son of a gun. That works!
I wish I’d known that trick a few dozen times I went shopping without my glasses.
Thanks.
To ~jem:
Check out a sporting goods store for a “masculine” neck gizmo for his glasses. Everybody on the field crews at work had these, it’s like a huge flexible soda straw, and the earpieces of the glasses cram into the ends of the “straw.”
To Leaffan:
If we bought those dime store reading glasses, then Hubster would have TWO drawers full of eyeglasses to “forget,” and he’d STILL end up using his sunglasses to read a menu.
I tell people the reason why I’ve been married for so long is that murder is still illegal…
~VOW
WOW!
That works!
Now if for some reason I forget my glasses going into the store I can read the prices! That makes my day!
I am blind in one eye and need reading glasses. I get them at Dollar Tree because I can step on a $100 pair of glasses as fast (or faster) than a $1 pair.
I can’t function with the glasses on for anything but reading, so they are usually on top of my head. Since I have fairly thick hair, sometimes I don’t realize they’re there. So I go to look for another pair, finish reading what I needed them for, push them on top of my head - and pout at my husband for laughing at me.
What about the people who do wear glasses even though they don’t need them? People that wear glasses as a fashion statement? I’m referring to those who don those thick, black rimmed block-y glasses; the hipster glasses when they don’t even have a prescription. That really grinds my gears. :mad:
Yeah, like those prissy library MILFs in porn clips.
Wait, I like that. 
Worse are people who don’t wear prescription lenses while driving despite being required to by law. “Oh, I don’t need my glasses. I drive this way everyday, I don’t need to read the signs.” Apparently, you also haven’t noticed that you are stopped more than a car length behind the car in front of you and YOU’RE BLOCKING MY PATH TO THE LEFT TURN LANE for no good reason! Get some depth perception, dammit!
:mad:
Before I got contacts I never really wore my glasses. I didn’t know how to choose ones that looked good and they felt annoying as hell on my face. My eye wasn’t terrible at the time, and I could usually get by with squinting at stuff and using my good eye. When the other one started to go my first one was bad enough that glasses only partially corrected the problem, in that anything outside the lens was just a blur anyway. It felt like I had blinders on. So I switched to contacts and haven’t looked back.
I still don’t really understand people who have terrible eyesight and choose glasses over contacts if it’s a viable option (eg doesn’t hurt to have them in, etc). Don’t you miss being able to see what’s to your left and right? Matter of fact, I started a thread about it a few years back.
I do it because I don’t want to look smart.
I have terrible eyesight and I don’t really understand what you mean. Without glasses, everything is extremely fuzzy blobs, sure, but I can still detect movement of said fuzzy blobs.
I mean, if something catches your attention in your peripheral vision (that’s what you’re meaning, right?), you’re not gonna think, “gee, what could that be? I sure wish I could see it better from this angle!” You’re gonna turn your head to look more. How is that different than what I do?
I have a friend who’s over 70 years old and who reads without glasses. I can only assume that he is very myopic, but isn’t aware of it. I will never, ever go with him in his car.