Sparre glasses is genius - never thought of that. Will Add

I have found that the mail-order glasses places work well for me, and at the price I can have a spare pair of glasses in my laptop bag and my car kit. My prescription is pretty tame.

Mrs. Magnet, on the other hand, has a pretty extreme prescription. She couldn’t use the one pair of mail-order prescription glasses I got for her, even as a spare pair.

I have 8 spare pairs of glasses! I ordered them a few years ago from Zenni.com when they had a BOBO sale. Optically they're pretty good. The most expensive pair is titanium framed and was still just $80 for the pair, and the entire order was under $200. One of the styles I got doesn't fit my face that well but for the price I can't complain. Now I have spares stashed everywhere, a necessity when you're as nearsighted as I am.

I get the sense that all of us here wear glasses.

Embracing her geek goddess image since she was five,
Jeanette Isabelle

I read a story years ago that Teddy Roosevelt had three or four extra pairs of glasses when he rode up San Juan hill! Apparently he worried about breaking them.

While I don't wear glasses, I am old enough for reading glasses, and yes, I have a spare pair (generally folding) along all the time. It is amazing how life can suck when you cannot read anything or do fine work.

It's very rare for me to wear my glasses at all; the eye doc annually expresses amazement at how well I tolerate contact lenses.

When I was a teen, Mom suggested that I get contacts. I wanted to stick with glasses.

Jeanette Isabelle

When I was about 40, I began to have problems readng a monitor in the open heart suite where I worked. Went to an Opthalmologist and got my first pair of no line bifocals. I've worn glasses for the last 30 years. 3 or 4 years ago, I asked about contacts and was told ,due to my age, I was unlikely to tolerate them.

Funny thing is I have 8 or 9 pair but I almost always wear contacts, too. Although during the pandemic, working from home, I am often too lazy to put 'em in. I've worn glasses more this past two months and in the preceding two years.