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Wellness Wednesday for March 20, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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What are the best quality-on-a-budget sunglasses you've used? I'm planning to buy a bunch of pairs with summer coming up, so I can keep them in cars and golf bags and to the beach and whatnot and not worry about losing them. I want something slightly better than absolute drug store junk, but I'm not willing to pay brand name prices. I'm considering Goodr, which I've heard good things about, or buying fake Oakley frogskins or Ray Ban Wayfarers off DHGate, some people I know claim they're totally impossible to distinguish from the authentics but it's hard to know which seller to buy from and that makes me nervous (though my one experience buying fake sports jerseys off DHgate was fantastic).

I bought a pair of Izipizi sunglasses for ~€50 a few months back. I now like them more than my secondhand Ray-Bans, which would have been €250 new.

I would recommend kits.ca. Cheap, branded, and each time I've ordered they've offered a choice of a free pair at checkout. My worry about cheap knockoffs is that they might not have proper sun protection, which can damage your eyes in the long run.

I've randomly had good luck with drug store crap sunglasses. My strategy has basically been to buy any drug store crap glasses that look good enough, and the ones that survive and I continue to like stay around. Survival of the fittest for sunglasses.

I need prescription, so I don't have personal input, but my wife and a bunch of running buddies like Goodr a lot. By all accounts, they're durable and don't slip off easily. I like the look too, but that's obviously in the eye of the beholder.