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RE: The First Step on My Journey to Better Vision
47 bucks is a bargain. Glad you are being proactive about this.. @samstonehill !!!!
Y'know Jamie went and got eyes tested and was told to get reading glasses. He went for cheapest frames.. 40 bucks.. and asked for a case. Thatll be an extra 30 bucks. Wtf? Went to local op shop. 50 cents. Thanks optomestrist... not!!!
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You can't win, can you? I get a case with every single purchase and never use them (mind you that's when I'm sending over $100 for them). You can take glasses back to bee recycled, but they won't take back the untouched cases which would save them huge wastage. Shaun has been getting reading glasses from our local IGA Foodland for about $10, I think. Will have to look into whether far sightedness can be corrected naturally.
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We have many global friends who go up to the Tachilek market (Northern Thai border crossing into Burma) simply to buy the glasses frames. $6 if you DON'T bargain. LOL My friend, Monica, usually gets 7 funky new frames each annual visit. Then down to Chiang Mai where the local glasses store will put your prescription lenses in for $20-$30 - includes blue light blocking. She is the Imelda of glasses... LOL.
It's so hard to buy lenses to go in frames here. There are some places online which do it, but you then have to send them and they need to come back, making it cheaper to just buy all in.
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And sadly Mother Earth is futther depleted by that "cheaper to just buy a whole new one" mindset. 😭 Im glad to be out of that disposable culture.
That particular culture is proving to be a really hard one to shake, here. I rather envy that you have escaped it. There are a few companies here and there moving towards replaceable parts and longer lasting, but few have reached Australia's shores. ☹
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