Totally OT: Cute reading glasses!

[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.

[emily_in_nc]

I wish I needed them.

Be careful what you wish for! I don't know your age, but I've read and heard that just about everyone needs at least some reading correction by age 50, and many need it by 40. I got my first pair of readers at 46. I've been wearing contacts for distance and astigmatism correction since 18 and also have my first pair of very expensive progressive glasses since age 46 (I'm 47 now, getting close to 48). However, I've been spoiled by contacts and I hate being tied to glasses, they're not good for athletics, and they make my eyes tired, so I much prefer contacts at work (plus readers over them when I need to read fine print). So it was cool to find some cute, colorful readers instead of the boring ones I've been buying at the drugstore.

My DH never needed glasses of any kind until he was 50, when he started needing readers. He just bought them at the drugstore, but every year needed a stronger pair. Now, at 55, he wears progressive glasses full-time since even his distance vision is needing a slight bit of correction.

[shootingstar]

sigh.I just came back now from biking and shopping. Tried on a couple of these peeper-readers or whatever in different strengths. Most of the designs didn't fit..my lack of well-defined nose bridge. But then wasn't looking around hard enough for options.

yea, they would be helpful for me to thread the needle occasionally or other fine eye work. But I haven't bought any pair yet.. there's a part of me that is trying to face reality.

[emily_in_nc]

sigh.I just came back now from biking and shopping. Tried on a couple of these peeper-readers or whatever in different strengths. Most of the designs didn't fit..my lack of well-defined nose bridge. But then wasn't looking around hard enough for options.

yea, they would be helpful for me to thread the needle occasionally or other fine eye work. But I haven't bought any pair yet.. there's a part of me that is trying to face reality.

You might have to go to an optician for more frame choices and a better fit (but for more $). At some point, it will become a must. I can't thread a needle at all any more without reading glasses (or my Rx progressives), sadly, and I sew, so no avoiding that reality! Just another "fun" fact of aging...bummer, eh?

[OakLeaf]

I'm going to need a pair of those totally geek jeweler's magnifiers next time I do any electrical work on the m/c I just haven't decided what magnification to get them in.