How do people with good eyesight go to sleep? When I’m done with the day I take my glasses off and the world is suddenly a pleasant blur of the most generously monet filter of vision degradation and it’s like. We’re done. You don’t gotta see anything anymore. You try sleeping with perfect eyes??? Seeing stuff????? Sad. Shitty eyesight uncorrected is half a dream state already where you did lose your fucking glasses and you won’t find them till morn but it don’t fucking matter till morn do it
Also people with contacts are strong because we casually remove things from our eyeballs, people with 20/20 vision are coddled and weak and they will not survive when the eyeball touching winter comes
Maybe this is why all my friends with shitty eyesight can get to sleep easily and it takes me 4 hours
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#I find it goes more the other way #to me it’s not that no-glasses makes it easier to sleep as much as yes-glasses makes it easier to wake up #on those occasions that I have trouble getting up it’s entirely in the part before I put my glasses on #because putting glasses on sends a very strong signal to my brain of ”okay it is Getting Up Time Now and there will be No More Dawdling” #(probably-relevant note: I’m *not* caffeine-addicted) #in a more morphologically free world I think I would get my vision fixed #and then have the lenses in my glasses replaced with non-prescription ones and keep wearing them #I would like the *option* of functioning without glasses but refrain from taking that option whenever possible #my glasses are Part Of Me #even wearing very similar (but not exactly the same model) glasses feels wrong #(at least I managed to find a backup pair whose differences are subtle enough you can’t tell from the outside) #(so if one day I am forced to resort to them long-term I will still be able to look in the mirror and see myself) #(even if I don’t *feel* like myself) #((also yeah one of the *other* reasons I don’t wear contacts is because I’m a wimp)) #tag rambles
80% of the eyeglasses in the world are made by Luxotica, that’s right, no matter the brand name, the source is the same, but not only do Luxottica make the frames, they make the lenses, they own the stores, they even own the largest eye insurance company, Eye Med – which is why they can charge you 400$ for a pair of glasses that costs maybe $20
75% of people who purchase eyeglasses need them out of medical necessity (as I do) so I went and tried the online shop Zenni Optical, and was able to buy no line bifocals with UV coating for less than $70, when LensCrafters wanted to sell me a pair for $550 – and that’s WITH insurance!
Nicest thing about Zenni? You can upload a photo of yourself to try on glasses, and if you don’t like them – YOU CAN RETURN THEM for credit! This is because you don’t need to gouge your customer to make money, glasses really cost only pennies to make. Now I can buy a couple of pairs, and have choices in what I wear, rather than investing hundreds of dollars – sometimes for quality that sucks.
Regardless of whom you buy from, don’t feed Luxottica any more.
Probably also applies to countries outside of US, Luxottica is Italian, and French lensmaker Essilor has agreed to buy Luxottica in a bid to create a new global giant in the sector. The combined group will have a market capitalization of around 46.2 billion euros ($49 billion), based on both companies’ closing share prices on Friday.
just google online eyeglasses and you’ll find plenty of links.
Zenni is international! I’ve been buying my glasses there now for years and I’ve never had any issues. Not with fit, not with lenses, not with breaks – nothing.
I have a strong, difficult prescription and was regularly paying upwards of $700AUD every two years for a single pair of glasses. I bought my current pair of glasses a couple years ago from Zenni and guess how much I spent?
…$7. In total. Frames and lenses. And they are singularly the best glasses I’ve ever had. I wear my glasses every waking hour of my life and these babies have not just survived but they look almost as good as when I first received them.
And because they are so cheap I also have a pair of sunglasses, and TWO pairs of alternative glasses I can wear when the mood strikes me. Since then my mom AND my dad, my uncle, and my cousin have all started to buy from Zenni.
BUY YOUR GLASSES FROM ZENNI! I cannot stress this enough. If you’re paying retail then you’re being ripped off.
I’ve reblogged this before and Ima reblog it again…
Zenni ain’t the only place out there. In fact I shopped there first then found other’s I liked better. I primarily buy off Eyebuydirect but I have also shopped at coastal and Zenni. Eyebuydirect has been overall my favorite. There prices are in the same price bracket as Zenni which is like $12-$80 for frames and where as zenni you can get lenses for free Eyebuydirect the lenses I think are like $14-18
but the quality of the glasses I have gotten from Eyebuydirect felt far superior to those I got from zenni, Eyebuydirect also has great customer service. Basically please look around the internet. Like just cause glasses are fucking awesome and deserve to be a fashion statement as well as a need.
I am currently wearing a pair of glasses from eyebuydirect that I paid a little over $100 I got frames that where $35 and I got those fancy blue coated lenses that help protect your eyes against looking at screens for extended time (I get way less headaches with them!) those lenses where a bit pricier.
but. in comparison, last I checked in at walmart (fucking walmart.) my lenses alone base cost would of been $140 that’s just the stupid glass discs not even the frames.
You do need to get a prescription from an optometrist, that you can’t avoid, however you don’t have to buy the eyeglasses from your optometrist, some don’t like that because that’s where they make their money – others are paid salary by their stores so they don’t care. Part of the prescription is the pupillary distance, and you’ve paid for that, so they have to give it to you. If they still don’t, Zenni has a ruler you can print out, so you can figure it out yourself.
Also, if you eyeglasses are not correct (I have no line bifocals and those can be an issue, though I’ve never had them with Zenni) you just send them back no charge to get re-made, or send them back for a refund. You don’t lose anything for trying except time.
I have gotten glasses from Zenni since 2013, and at this point I’ve probably saved thousands of dollars with how terrible my eyes are and how expensive my lenses turn out in stores.
Also, you should probably go to an ophthalmologist instead of an optometrist, at least if you haven’t been in a while. They are more trained in dealing with eye problems other than just getting your prescription right, but they do that too.
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#glasses #the more you know #I’ve had the same pair of glasses for over a decade now but I’m sure I’ll need new ones *eventually* #(the prescription won’t be a problem) #(I keep a copy of my glasses prescription in my wallet) #(and replace it every two years with the most recent one) #(it tends to change *slightly* each checkup but not significantly enough to be worth replacing my lenses just for that) #(and so far it doesn’t change in a consistent direction and thus doesn’t add up over time) #I should probably get a poverty/frugality tag; I’ve been talking about that more lately #I will take my cue from the ”who needs dragon capitalism” bit in the electricity post and call it #adventures in human capitalism #(note that ”adventures in dragon capitalism” is an already-established tag)
“Oh, birds! There’s actually something up there in the sky when my mom points!”
No, I don’t remember, because I was too young.
(I remember when I was still a fairly young kid getting glasses back after having to go for…I dunno, maybe a couple months without, but that’s different. Yes, I was happy I could read the road signs, but–having had glasses previously–I had already been aware road signs had text even if I couldn’t currently perceive it.)
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#glasses #I do feel bad for people who were old enough to remember #but not old enough to know this wasn’t how the world was supposed to look
This is my life. Am tempted to get laser surgery down the road.
Pretty much, yep. Though you learn to focus on the bit in the middle (sometimes to the detriment of peripheral vision).
I haven’t needed new glasses in…oh, at least six or seven years. But back when my vision was actively deteriorating and I was replacing my glasses* regularly, I always insisted (and still would) on buying the largest lenses they had. Why anyone with inferior-in-all-respects unassisted vision would do otherwise**, I don’t know. Get large lenses and wear them as far up the nose as they can go and you cover almost your entire field of vision. Only my peripherals remain at -5.5, and I get the impression peripherals are supposed to be blurry anyway. And you don’t even have to attempt to cope with contacts.
*It was usually cheaper to replace the whole thing than to change out the lenses, plus my head was still growing.
**And clearly a lot of them do, since the glasses in the store are overwhelmingly small- or medium-lensed.
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