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It has come to this: Halfway through life, I must don glasses.
Please give me your best, least obvious or highest benefit-cost-ratio tips and advice for the newly bespectacled.
Edit: Context: Apparently I'm nearsighted and have Astigmatism. I already got a first pair of glasses; plastic lenses in a very simple frame. Not the sturdiest (I wanted it to be fairly light), but not exactly wireframe either. Cost me around 250€. My parents regularly shell out 1000€-2500€ for glasses, so this seemed an acceptable price. No extra features though.
Call around to find an optometrist who is willing to give you the pupillary distance as well as the prescription, then buy the glasses online through Zenni. Alternatively, if you only have the prescription, you can use a reversed or expired credit card to measure your pupillary distance at their website by taking a picture of your face with the card on your forehead. If you order during Black Friday, it is very cheap.
Get the maximum blue light protection possible. It will help you sleep and reduce eye strain and headaches. Get some clip-on sunglasses, too.
Two is one and one is none. Get three pairs. Nothing sucks more than not being able to find your glasses when you absolutely need to go out the door.
Get sturdy plastic glasses with as few moving parts as possible. Thin wire-frame glasses break way too often. They should look like this, not like this.
Frames vary widely in price for no apparent reason. I have seen virtually identical frames priced more than $100 apart. Get the cheap ones.
I can't agree with this. Having a tinted pair is often worth it (see my other post), but three pairs is way too much. Also, it's not hard to keep track of your glasses so you shouldn't ever be in the situation where you can't find them.
Maybe you just have better executive function than I do? All I can tell you is that three pairs have really saved my ass when one pair was long-term lost (later found between the bed and the wall), the second pair I was using was short-term lost (left in the bathroom) and I really had to go out the door to get to work.
Besides, each pair was only $30 (again, Zenni + Black Friday), so why not.
It sounds like maybe the problem is not having a place you consistently put them? If my glasses aren't on my face (or in my hands), they are in one of exactly two places: the nightstand next to my bed (while I sleep), or the bathroom vanity (while I shower). Consequently, losing my glasses just isn't a thing that happens in my life.
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