Cheaters (No, not that kind ...)

[Jack Flash]

Reading Glasses!


Since my cataract surgery, I have needed reading glasses. I bought some bifocal Foster Grants at Walgreen's that are pretty good. They work for reading and also give a clear view of the computer screen. They cost about thirty bucks.


Anyone have experience with any other brands, especially cheaper ones? I would like to carry a pair in every vehicle, have a pair at work, and several pairs around the house.

 

[DeathGrip]

It's a numbers game in several ways,

I wear 1.25s when I'm reading.

I buy them in the three pack at W-Mart.

I keep some everywhere.

 

[H Richard]

I needed 2.50 for reading, 1.75 - 2.0 for the intermediate, (merchandise in the stores, computer screen), and sunglasses to step out the door. After carrying 3 to 4 pair of glasses around to be able to shop etc, I just ordered new no line trifocals that darken in the sunlight and at least I can see pretty clearly.

 

[steelslaver]

I got set up with mono vision. Right eye is 20/15 left ey is 20/30. I can read with the left eye fine. Don't notice the bit of a blur in left when outside. I use 2.00 if I am reading a book or something foor a long time. Might get a pair of prescriptions for that though.

 

[fat tom]

If you've got a Dollar Store or Dollar Tree,buy 'em there. I bought a dozen pair 20 years ago and still have most of 'em left. Any place my butt lands,there's a pair within reach.
f.t.

 

[chief38]

Costco 3 pack of 1.75 cheaters for about $15 bucks works for me. I have over a dozen pair all around the house, cars, garage and work shop.

 

[erics]

Wore glasses for 50 years from age 16 when I couldn't pass the drivers exam due to eyesight up until double cataract surgery last year. I needed readers so I got a pair of lenses made for my frames with readers in bottom and clear uncorrected in top halves. I now use them as safety glasses in the workshop and on jobsites as well as readers and computer work.

 

[kwselke]

I've got five or six pair of +2.5 from the Dollar Tree that I use when not using my prescription bifocals, and to supplement my prescription astigmatism only correcting glasses and sunglasses. At $1 a pair the only problem I have is keeping them all clean.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Dollar store or AxMan (a local surplus house). I favor the rimless kind that used to be sold as fly-tying glasses, but any nondescript rimmed ones will work. Never more than a buck or two a pair.

For riding, I get Radians bifocal safety glasses that allow me to read a GPS. The clear ones make good shooting glasses. About $12 a pair.

 

[islamoradamark]

i can read the computer screen but some thing are just small cheater just dont work for me right now i just pull out a big magnifying glass

 

[Salty RI]

I bought the wal mart brand 1..25 I think the were 5.99 I also bought bifocal sun glasses from readers.com they were around 20 bucks, I bought a few pair with different tints.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Reading Glasses!


Since my cataract surgery, I have needed reading glasses. I bought some bifocal Foster Grants at Walgreen's that are pretty good. They work for reading and also give a clear view of the computer screen. They cost about thirty bucks.


Anyone have experience with any other brands, especially cheaper ones? I would like to carry a pair in every vehicle, have a pair at work, and several pairs around the house.

Sam's Club. Four for $20 . . .

 

[NYlakesider]

Wore glasses for 50 years from age 16 when I couldn't pass the drivers exam due to eyesight up until double cataract surgery last year. I needed readers so I got a pair of lenses made for my frames with readers in bottom and clear uncorrected in top halves. I now use them as safety glasses in the workshop and on jobsites as well as readers and computer work.

That is basically what I did, I started wearing glasses in kindergarten in1951. Nearsighted with a astigmatism in one eye.

A couple years ago I had both eyes "decatted" and some sort of special lenses put in. WOW what a difference, other than reading or computer work I could see without glasses and in fact passed my DMV easy without them. I wore "readers" but was continuously taking them off and spending time looking for them.

I also do a lot of outside work now and am retired with over 40 years of being a construction worker. The amount of problems not occurring and the amount of things hitting and pitting my glasses over the years made what I did easy.

Went back to the doctor and told him I want to go back on full time glasses mainly for eye safety. So he dialed in readers on the bottom (typical bifocals) with a very slight correction in the top part. As I had worn glasses all my life I felt vulnerable without them.

 

[joeintexas]

$1.00 at Dollar Tree. I put a pair in any chair I can, easy to find that way!