Foo - reading glasses

I admit it. I tried safety glasses at work with the cheater bifocals (+1.5) and, hot diggity...I can read stuff easier. What do you have for cheaters? Are the ones in the carousels at the dept store worth a damn?

I feel like Sherlock Holmes as I use a kid's magnifying glass to read fine print on nearly everything. And FTR, my distance vision isn't bad although I do have some astigmatism.

Dude.

Maybe 10 years ago I bought my first pair and it changed my life.

I could read again for hours.

I love to read.

Obviously a 20 or 30-something-year-old sadist is responsible for product labeling....and the rebate form for a certain brand of vodka :innocent:

Dude.

Maybe 10 years ago I bought my first pair and it changed my life.

I could read again for hours.

I love to read.

20 for me, it's part of getting older. Wait until the rest of the fun starts.

Are the ones in the carousels at the dept store worth a damn?I get the 3-pack at Walmart for about $10. Keep several pairs laying around. If you can find folding ones get them.

I get the 3-pack at Walmart for about $10. Keep several pairs laying around.

great minds think alike! In fact, I think they aren't even $10.

I get the 3-pack at Walmart for about $10. Keep several pairs laying around. If you can find folding ones get them.

Will do. Thanks!

My bf wears a cheapie pair from CVS to read menu's, books, computer screen...etc...It embarasses him to pull them out in a restaurant, I usually just say, pfffft don't worry about it, lots of old men have to wear them to read menu's.

As I recall...

The first time I tried to descend stairs with those new glasses on my nose was, well it was different is all I can say.

My bf wears a cheapie pair from CVS to read menu's, books, computer screen...etc...It embarasses him to pull them out in a restaurant, I usually just say, pfffft don't worry about it, lots of old men have to wear them to read menu's.

You're so, so, ah empathetic.

I love em. I found some at a store here called Hudson's Treasure Hunt. It's a thrift store of sorts but they had a few hundred pairs for 60 cents a pair. I bought several pairs and have them laying everywhere I could potentially need them.

My mother who's a very pretentious woman was none to happy that I was wearing glasses that weren't prescribed by an ophthalmologist. She nagged me to the point that I went to one and he told me to go to the drug store and get some cheaters. She then called her doctor an idiot.

Mine are 1.5 too, and I've got 'em all over the house. I buy mine at Costco, WalMart and other stores that offer decent quality readers for $5 to $15 each. I'm hard on glasses, so Dollar Store specs don't hold up.

My eye doc put me on to reading glasses years ago as an option to bifocals. He said they work fine and won't hurt our eyes. I been seeing better ever since.

For computer work: Glasses with optimum focus at arm's length.

For outdoor activities: Multifocus contacts.

I usually have about 8 pairs of 1.5's sprinkled around 2 briefcases, work office, desk in my living room and the table next to my bed. I've been stuck one too many times at work especially trying to mend a broken pair (and they seem to break quite easily) with a piece of scotch tape because I need them to even read my computer screen. Contacts for long distance and these little things to read close up. I suppose I could go for the contacts that do both but I rather like the price of my contacts now.

Go check out the 99 cent only stores in your area if you have them. Most of the stuff is junk, but I got a dozen sets of excellent glasses with stress reliefs at the temples, the same or better than other stores I tried at $7-$19 each.

My bf wears a cheapie pair from CVS to read menu's, books, computer screen...etc...It embarasses him to pull them out in a restaurant, I usually just say, pfffft don't worry about it, lots of old men have to wear them to read menu's.



You're so, so, ah empathetic.

Just wait until she needs them, maybe he'll share some with her.

Just wait until she needs them, maybe he'll share some with her.

heh - I take advantage here and buy the most loudest, bodacious and funky cool reading glasses possible. I love them for the fact that I can see what I'm doing --- but also for their funkiness!! I have red ones, black with green designs, black with sparkles, brilliant PINK, flowered ones, PURPLE!!, and stripes and polka dots. Keep them coming!!

I get the 3-pack at Walmart for about $10. Keep several pairs laying around. If you can find folding ones get them.

Yup, my wife gets hers there too, she loves them as she only needs her glasses for reading so she's in! If you take care of them they last an awful long time, she hasn't bought a pair of "real" glasses in years. :thumb:

I admit it. I tried safety glasses at work with the cheater bifocals (+1.5) and, hot diggity...I can read stuff easier. What do you have for cheaters? Are the ones in the carousels at the dept store worth a damn?

I feel like Sherlock Holmes as I use a kid's magnifying glass to read fine print on nearly everything. And FTR, my distance vision isn't bad although I do have some astigmatism.

I got the safety glasses with the +1.5 lens. They work great.

I'll pick up a couple pair for around the house. Too many products have tiny print these days. I doubt even a teenager could read it. The latest...instructions for programming a universal garage door opener remote.

I got bifocals.

Reading glasses beat bifocals. The accident rate of people wearing bifocals is substantially higher than people with single vision glasses. On a bicycle with the reading part of the glasses at the bottom, it seemed like a bad idea to me.

The small patch they put in the bifocals for reading wasn't enough for me. I do a lot of reading and had that patch larger than the glasses supplier thought it should be, but it still wasn't comfortable.

I can't focus on anything within 3 feet. I had to go with the bifocals because constantly swapping glasses was driving me nuts.
For riding a bike I wear single vision sunglasses or my old single vision frames. For driving the bifocals let me see the dash, I kinda like that.

Had cheaters all over house but night driving revealed issues. Astigmatism resulted in graduated lenses that allow for my far sighted eyes to see 10' or closer. Wear them all the time and I can actually read my bike computer, etc. Tough glasses are nearly safety rated and a big help cycling. I'll still wear + 1.75 for detail work.

As a photographer I'm picky about my glass. I'll only wear real glass lenses. I hate plastic. Usually after a short while I'll scratch them up. May as well have frosted lenses.

As a photographer I'm picky about my glass. I'll only wear real glass lenses. I hate plastic. Usually after a short while I'll scratch them up. May as well have frosted lenses.

I learned the hard way *not* to turn on the heat in my ultrasonic cleaner when cleaning plastic-lensed sunglasses.:(
They came out permanently frosted.

My diopter for comfortable reading is os+3/od+3.5.

A small mercy this defect, correctable with DollarTree gegaws.

Dude.

Maybe 10 years ago I bought my first pair and it changed my life.

I could read again for hours.

I love to read.

Remember how those "left hand" magazines in our youth could really pop our eyes open and we never missed the most obscure detail:thumb:<(not my thumb)

I wear bifocals for reading, driving, eating, well, hell, I can't see without 'em :p

As I recall...

The first time I tried to descend stairs with those new glasses on my nose was, well it was different is all I can say.

This - and I was at a car dealer (getting work done, waiting room was upstairs). It was a really high staircase...I almost missed a step - that would have been a nice show for all the staff and other customers...

As a photographer I'm picky about my glass. I'll only wear real glass lenses. I hate plastic. Usually after a short while I'll scratch them up. May as well have frosted lenses.

This and riding are the two big issues I have with glasses (well, three, if you add in keeping the damn things clean!). For riding, because I wear progressive bifocals and while I don't need correction for distance to drive a car or ride I do need the reading part for maps, dashboards, Garmin, etc. Factor in the need for sunglasses/UV protection and it's an issue. I did find one site that makes progressive bifocal shades for cyclists, but am cringing at the thought of how expensive they will probably be...

I just got back into photography the same time my eyes really started going south. It's quite a challenge to say the least. My solution was to get a diopter for the viewfinder eyepiece (good DSLRs will have them built in); I just couldn't get it happening with glasses on.

For those of you who are thinking about needing reading glasses and those who just buy of the rack "elcheapo's" I highly recommend seeing an eye specialist for an examination of your vision. They'll not only give you the straight goods on the state of your vision they'll catch any conditions that might cause you greater problems later. After all you only have one set of eyes to last the rest of your life.

It embarasses him to pull them out in a restaurant, I usually just say, pfffft don't worry about it, lots of old men have to wear them to read menu's.

Some time back my wife and I were in a dimly lit restaurant. She can't read with her glasses, needing to take them off to see smaller print. Unfortunately, she had contacts on and couldn't do that. And I had forgotten my reading glasses (since then I always keep a spare pair in the car). We had to take out menus out by the main entrance/reception area to find strong enough light that we could squintlingly see what the menu offered. Talk about embarrassing.

One of the many reasons I don't bother with a computer on the bike is I'd need to carry reading glasses to see it.

my "cheaters" are the progressive bifocals i got at age 33. :(

I'm 45 and still 20/20. :)

I just had a eye exam last week. My rx didn't change for my contacts or glasses but we did talk about some reading glasses and she suggested a 1.25 pair. I looked at them at my neighborhood grocery store and Rite Aid, but they were $15-25 a pair. I'll see what they have at the big blue box store the next time I go there, maybe the 3/$10 ones someone mentioned earlier.

For those of you who are thinking about needing reading glasses and those who just buy of the rack "elcheapo's" I highly recommend seeing an eye specialist for an examination of your vision. They'll not only give you the straight goods on the state of your vision they'll catch any conditions that might cause you greater problems later. After all you only have one set of eyes to last the rest of your life.

This is a good point - especially b/c it's quite possible each eye will have a different correction needed. In that case, a pair from the drug store will be short-changing one of your eyes.

If you are lucky enough to have the same exact Rx for both eyes, once you've seen a doctor and know the correction you need, I see no problem with buying a cheapo pair or two to stash around (in your desk at work, etc.). I used to keep my last year's Rx pair in my desk just in case I forgot my glasses at home - not as good as using the current Rx but way better than no glasses at all. Actually my eyes have gotten bad enough now That I wear mine all the time, except while commuting by bike. I don't need a map and don't use a computer for riding to work, so I have two 'current' pairs and keep one in my bike bag.

So was I wordbiker. Actually better than that most of my life. All of a sudden, at about 48, 6s and 8s became hard to distinguish in small print. By 50, I couldn't read text without cheaters. Happened faster than I ever would have imagined possible.

Won't be long now for you. The newspaper in the morning is the first thing to get blurry. For me, it was at about 47. I always had the best eyesight of anyone I know. I always was the first one in a car to see the name of a strett we were looking for. Those were the days.

My bf wears a cheapie pair from CVS to read menu's, books, computer screen...etc...It embarasses him to pull them out in a restaurant, I usually just say, pfffft don't worry about it, lots of old men have to wear them to read menu's.

:mad:

I admit it. I tried safety glasses at work with the cheater bifocals (+1.5) and, hot diggity...I can read stuff easier. What do you have for cheaters? Are the ones in the carousels at the dept store worth a damn?

I feel like Sherlock Holmes as I use a kid's magnifying glass to read fine print on nearly everything. And FTR, my distance vision isn't bad although I do have some astigmatism.

Welcome to old.

This is a good point - especially b/c it's quite possible each eye will have a different correction needed. In that case, a pair from the drug store will be short-changing one of your eyes.

If you are lucky enough to have the same exact Rx for both eyes, once you've seen a doctor and know the correction you need, I see no problem with buying a cheapo pair or two to stash around (in your desk at work, etc.). I used to keep my last year's Rx pair in my desk just in case I forgot my glasses at home - not as good as using the current Rx but way better than no glasses at all. Actually my eyes have gotten bad enough now That I wear mine all the time, except while commuting by bike. I don't need a map and don't use a computer for riding to work, so I have two 'current' pairs and keep one in my bike bag.
Mine suggested I buy a pair or two at the drug store to try. I later ended up with fancier progressive reading glasses to wear with my contacts, but the drug store ones worked better for computer work.

My bf wears a cheapie pair from CVS to read menu's, books, computer screen...etc...It embarasses him to pull them out in a restaurant, I usually just say, pfffft don't worry about it, lots of old men have to wear them to read menu's.

Why are you dating a dude that's 75?

For those of you who are thinking about needing reading glasses and those who just buy of the rack "elcheapo's" I highly recommend seeing an eye specialist for an examination of your vision. They'll not only give you the straight goods on the state of your vision they'll catch any conditions that might cause you greater problems later. After all you only have one set of eyes to last the rest of your life.

This is really good advice, and my internist insists on an eye exam every 2-3 years. I still use the reading specs.

I bought glasses today at SAMs Club. Went to the rack for straight 1.5 specs, but also found sunglasses with built in fixed strength bifocals. Most of the lens is uncorrected for basic sunglass use with UV blocking. The lower part of the lens is a fixed strength magnifier (1.5, 3.0, etc.) for close up use. Pretty neat.

Even the cheapest reading glasses work pretty well. I've bought lots of them at the dollar store. The good ones from Walgreens and so forth that cost $20 or more will last a lot longer but they won't do any better for your vision. I wait until I find Walgreens 2-for-1 coupons in the newspaper and buy them then. My wife likes to have reading glasses spread throughout the house, I prefer to have one good pair that I carry with me. The ones from the dollar store will break easy but they might be better for someone that loses their glasses frequently.

So was I wordbiker. Actually better than that most of my life. All of a sudden, at about 48, 6s and 8s became hard to distinguish in small print. By 50, I couldn't read text without cheaters. Happened faster than I ever would have imagined possible.

I know it's coming. At about 10" from my face, things get blurred. Makes it tough when my head is crammed into a cabinet to drive a screw, etc.

I was about 50 when I started to need reading glasses. The ones at the 99 cent store work fine...

I later ended up with fancier progressive reading glasses to wear with my contacts, but the drug store ones worked better for computer work.

I found that also, at first - it was a PITA to tilt my head at the computer to use the lower reading portion of my progressive lenses. But I found that it was giving me headaches looking over the tops of the reading glasses when i had to look across the room, so I eventually went with the progressives all the time, especially as my distance Rx has been slowly creeping up.

Has anyone ever purchased reading glasses for the purpose of eye protection while riding?

Has anyone ever purchased reading glasses for the purpose of eye protection while riding?

I picked these (http://www.safetyglassesusa.com/allsafe-nemesis-reader.html) up for riding but realized the need for "cycling cheaters" isn't great enough so I just go with my normal shades. Typical cheaters' lenses aren't big enough to prevent tearing, especially in colder weather. YMMV