Totally OT: Cute reading glasses!

[emily_in_nc]

Hi all,

Just wanted to pass this along as I know a lot of us are "of a certain age" where we're needing reading glasses. I have been wearing boring ones from the drugstore, but just discovered this site: www.peepers.com. They have pages and pages of cute readers for women. I need to use up my 2008 Flexible Spending Account money, and readers *are* covered, so I just ordered two pairs for spring (thinking positive - it *is* coming, right?!)

http://www.peepers.com/reading-glass...ingglasses.cfm

http://www.peepers.com/reading-glass...ingglasses.cfm

No affiliation....I just thought some others here might be interested.

[Zen]

They are pretty but...I get mine from the Dollar Store

[jobob]

Get mine from Costco. Do I win?

[maillotpois]

I wish I needed them. People who wear them look so cool - and so smart. I have a friend with a lot of thick gray hair, and he wears reading glasses, and he'll be in a deposition, reading notes, and then look at the witness OVER the glasses to ask a question, and it just looks SO cool.

I am a simple person...

[jobob]

One very nice thing about reading glasses is they make your eyes look larger.

Unlike the coke-bottle glasses I wear for my nearsightedness when I don't have my contacts on, which make my eyes look teeny-tiny.

[shootingstar]

THis is going to sound strange but forgive me for this naive question, since I haven't needed any glasses for anything in life, except for sunglasses. But my luck may run out soon going into the 5th decade of life.. I am noticing it's just more difficult to thread a sewing hand needle when I need to alter clothing. And I used to be a regular sewer..before cycling, so I knew how sharp my vision was for many hrs. under those circumstances.

I always thought it was safest to have one's vision tested first before figuring out prescription vs. non-prescription route.

[DebTX]

I'm totally loving the Key West Sunrise...

[channlluv]

Golly, I'm going tomorrow to buy my very first readers, too. And glasses for astigmatism. Did I spell that right? I'm apparently both near and far sighted. Go figure. I'll be getting two pairs of glasses, one for driving at night and one for reading. Oy.

Women of a certain age, indeed. I'm there.

Sigh.

Roxy

[ClockworkOrange]

I love 'em, Peepers 810 Fruit Striped Gum Reading Glasses. Unfortunately wearing varifocals, they would not be deep enough.

Now this I could not believe was for real!



Clock

[Trekhawk]

THis is going to sound strange but forgive me for this naive question, since I haven't needed any glasses for anything in life, except for sunglasses. But my luck may run out soon going into the 5th decade of life.. I am noticing it's just more difficult to thread a sewing hand needle when I need to alter clothing. And I used to be a regular sewer..before cycling, so I knew how sharp my vision was for many hrs. under those circumstances.

I always thought it was safest to have one's vision tested first before figuring out prescription vs. non-prescription route.

I have a family history of Glaucoma so I get my eyes tested by an Optometrist every year. After testing this year it was decided I needed my first pair of reading specs. The testing in Aust is free under our government health system so its not a hard decision to make. I would always go to an Optometrist before making decisions about glasses but hey that is just my opinion.

[Crankin]

I could spend my whole flexible spending account on my eyes...
I use my insurance to pay for my contacts, but I also have a pair of bifocals, which I never wear because they are plain and ugly, and my readers. I wish I could order some of those cool glasses Emily, but my head is so little, I need to buy kid's frames! So, because I wear my readers a good deal of the time, over my contacts, I had to spend the big bucks to get a cool pair.

This year, I am going to get a cool pair of bifocals.

[jobob]

THis is going to sound strange but forgive me for this naive question, since I haven't needed any glasses for anything in life, except for sunglasses. But my luck may run out soon going into the 5th decade of life.. I am noticing it's just more difficult to thread a sewing hand needle when I need to alter clothing. And I used to be a regular sewer..before cycling, so I knew how sharp my vision was for many hrs. under those circumstances.

My up-close vision went south right about the moment I turned 45. I (used to) do a lot of beading and I noticed it suddenly became a lot more difficult. Since I wear contacts I see an eye doctor every year. When my near vision started going we discussed it and he said since the nearsightedness was fairly mild (so far ) I'd be fine with the drugstore reading glasses at low power, say +1.00 or +1.25, rather than laying out the bucks for prescription reading glasses.

Since you wouldn't be wearing them all the time, just for reading and sewing etc., there wouldn't be any harm in getting a cheep pair from the drugstore. You probably should follow up with an eye exam though.


PS - those glasses are cute, Emily!

[Selkie]

After Fiona chewed up my optician-made reading glasses when she was a puppy, I tried the drugstore kind while waiting for them to be repaired. I couldn't stand them, unfortunately.

Glasses are one thing I don't scrimp on, so I'm probably spoiled from my very lightweight distance specs.

[aka_kim]

My first pair of readers - back when I was 39! - were prescribed by the optometrist. Since then I've bought drugstore glasses and really don't notice (or mind) the difference. Since I'm trying to avoid wearing them on a chain around my neck, I need a pair for nearly every room in my house, plus my purse, and soon the seat bags on my bikes - so less expensive glasses are great.

Thanks for the link Emily!

[OakLeaf]

Ugh.

I'm reading Watchmen in anticipation of the movie - first graphic novel I've ever read - and really enjoying it... but I'm finding that to see the art, unless the light is really bright, I need readers even when I don't have my contacts in. First time I've experienced that. And that I could really bump up the magnification by another .25 when I do have them in.

I just gotta keep telling myself... if this is the worst thing I have to deal with getting old, I can't complain. Except that it almost certainly won't be.


ETA: my optometrist - an independent local guy, not one of these big chains - never even suggested I buy $50 reading glasses from his office. Maybe they don't even sell them. When I go for my contact exams, he checks me for presbyopia, tells me I'm about where he expects me to be at my age and sends me on my way.