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Two pairs of regular glasses, two pairs of sunglasses. All are prescription glasses. I mainly wear my older pairs for times when I am more "active" because they are nearly 3/4 years old.
1. Tinted pair for when I am out and about casually. Strictly vanity.
2. Regular pair for reading, computer, watching television, etc. Everyday task
3. Then the final pair with the telescope in them that I use for driving or distance seeing.
I go through those drug store reading glasses like water goes through a duck. I have at least three pairs that are whole and a graveyard of broken ones that I loved the style of and can't let go of. I should really just scrap them, I'll never get them repaired.
I also have two pairs of prescription glasses, one that I've had the frames for nearly 20 years. I've had the lenses replaced in those a few times, and they no longer make them hence their long life. Unfortunately I misplaced those Lauren Huttons so they are MIA somewhere in my bedroom, and I'm using the ones I had made most recently which I don't like as much. I only wear them when I take my contacts out so not very much.
I have so many pairs of sunglasses, some I've had since the mid-80s (new wave style) that I hold onto for nostalgia and to play around with my daughter sometimes. The ones I actually use are a pair of Guccis my ex husband bought in 1999, and when I misplace those now and then, I have a similar pair of Versaces to wear until I find them again.
I have readers in every room in the house that I use frequently, including the laundry room, but not the spare bedrooms. I used to keep a pair on the back porch table too, but squirrels made off with them and I haven't found the hiding place yet.
Not sure if this is the right place for this but.....
I'm just curious how many pair of [current] eyeglasses most people have.
I have one good pair (progressive lenses), my old pair (which I hope I don't have to wear again, because I never liked the way they looked), and a pair of drug store cheaters (in case I don't have my glasses and need to read a menu or something).
Do most people buy more than one pair when getting a new prescription?
1 pair of expensive glasses, 2 cheap pairs in case the expensive one breaks
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We have insurance through both my work and my wife's, so when I get a new prescription I buy my progressives in both clear and in sunglasses, using one insurance carrier for each. I save the old clear glasses for backup as there is never much of a change, so probably have 4-5 of them, dated so if I break the current pair, I can go back to the last while waiting for a new pair.
between Costco and Zenni I probably have at least 10 pair that I actively wear.
Even using zenni's cheapest frames, my glasses run a min. of $60-65 per pair, so ten would be a bit excessive.
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