Poll: Glasses thread

[Owlslayer]

For the first month or so, i used the special cloth, but then i got lazy and used whatever i got my hands on. Mostly tho, i used my shirt. And it works just fine, it seems.

Also, my glasses are quite normal-ish, more or less rectangle-shaped with rounded edges. Also, since I play football (the European kind) with them on, they`re kinda dented, or crooked. Doesn`t really bother me. I´m actually really surprised they still hang on and haven`t fallen apart. I mean, I´ve seen people get their glasses broken thanks to a football to the face. So i suppose these are quite flexible. Yay.

 

[Aerosteam]

When a sink is not next to me, I use my shirt like a normal person.

 

[370999]

What about us superior people who don't wear glasses? Why isn't there an option for us?

 

[Jamash]

Why do I get the feeling the glasses were an excuse to show off everything else? That pic looks carefully cropped...

I know what you mean, but lets be honest here... if you were cool enough to own an epic tablecloth depicting bananas and berries, wouldn't you use the flimsiest excuse to show it off?

I know I would, in fact if I was cool enough to rock that mad grandma style, I'd probably get that design tattooed on my chest then pretend it's too hot, just so I could take off my shirt and flash the epic fruit.

 

[soren7550]

I wear these cheap-o glasses (broke on me several times):

Spoiler: Holy crap it's Soren!

(keep in mind, this picture was taken over a year ago right after a haircut)

Been needing to get a replacement for a while now, but that's nothing new (my previous pair I had to keep using several years after I needed to update since someone was too cheap to get me the updated prescriptions I sorely needed).

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to say how I clean them. I use my shirt. Or my boyfriend's shirt if the material of my shirt is just making things worse.

 

[game-lover]

It's a combo of many of those options.

When I was a little girl, I used to use my spit. I would actually lick my glasses and then wipe them on my shirt.

Nowadays, I use the sink and my shirt. I don't have access to the cleaning liquid or cloth. Don't remember ever getting either with each prescription but if I did, they're long used up and gone by now.

Sometimes, I get a paper towel or something when my shirt fabric doesn't help. Like if it's made out of silk or something.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

It depends. If I'm out and about or otherwise in a hurry, I just kind of breathe on them to fog them up, and then rub 'em with my shirt. If I have access to cleaning fluid, I use that and a paper towel. If I don't have access to cleaning fluid, I wash them in the sink with a little dishwashing liquid, and dry with a paper towel or my shirt. I would use a cleaning cloth, but my current pair didn't come with one, and the one I bought isn't absorbent at all. Protip: do not buy eyeglass cleaning supplies from Walmart. In that entire package, the only thing that was remotely useful was the keychain precision screwdriver/socket set, which goes quite nicely with all the other little tools I have on my keychain.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[MammothBlade]

The cloth, usually. Could do with some spray, though. I only recently started wearing glasses, actually. My left-eye is short-sighted and my right is the opposite, and that was getting annoying.

My glasses are black titanium rimmed, nothing else to say about them.

 

[TehCookie]

Most of the time with my shirt. Though my glasses are usually dirty so it just ends up smudging it around. People wonder how I can still see out of them.

Spoiler: I like going for colorful glasses

 

[General Twinkletoes]

This is me wearing my glasses, about a year ago. I use my shirt to wash them, unless there's a one of those fancy swipey things in reach.

 

[lunavixen]

i use the small cleaning cloths designed for glasses (not that i wear mine much, being reading glasses and not everyday ones), can't post a picture, i don't have a working camera at the moment, my frames are rectangular and burgundy coloured, they are sufficiently old that they aren't manufactured anymore (the frames that is). If I still need glasses when i have my eye exam next year i'll get new frames.

 

[Aidinthel]

I used to have a cleaning cloth but I don't know where it is anymore and can't be bothered to look, so I just use my shirt. I haven't noticed any difference so far.

 

[Unsilenced]

I like how "use my shirt" is the most popular option. I've been using my little cloth thing, but I know I'll lose it eventually.

I just got glasses a few days ago, actually. They kind of look like the ones in the OP. Low prescription, just for reading and looking at stuff up close for long periods of time.

Spoiler: Apparently they make me look like an evil Nazi scientist.

 

[Broady Brio]

Just imagine the most basic of the basic glasses. Those would be mine.
They were £20, but I had £20 student discount, so I paid nothing for them. They do their job. I've never saw much purpose in buying branded bits of metal and glass.

Well, I'll just say that I used to take the same line, but (assuming you're a teenager, which seems to be the biggest demographic on the boards) NHS glasses aren't especially flattering, especially the most basic ones, and you might want to get something more flattering to the shape of your face, or half-rimmed or heavily rimmed frames depending on the level of definition you want from your glasses.

Or you can evade the entire problem with contact lenses and only wearing your unflattering glasses as the exception to the rule.

Just saying; whilst people do indulge in outre design decisions, there are also relatively conservative choices which can redefine the way you look in a subtle way and emphasise the positive elements of your facial structure.

Whereas you may get a bit of stick for looking like a late-eighties John Major.

I don't mean to sound condescendin, just bringing up some stuff I had to deal with. 0_0

After Wiki'ing John Major, I completely understand why people would want to spend a bit more on glasses. However, it doesn't completely sell me on about £200+ on them. My glasses while bland and ordinary are not large like his, they are small, matching my rather small face. Believe it or not, there was some variety I could choose from for free. It's just that they were not vastly different.

 

[thylasos]

After Wiki'ing John Major, I completely understand why people would want to spend a bit more on glasses. However, it doesn't completely sell me on about £200+ on them. My glasses while bland and ordinary are not large like his, they are small, matching my rather small face. Believe it or not, there was some variety I could choose from for free. It's just that they were not vastly different.

That's fair enough. I got my most recent pair (rimless, thin, a fashion brand's name on them, but covered up by my hair) from Tescos for £120 in total (after I got one of the free eye-tests they give out in June-July sort of time), which admittedly doesn't include paying for my lenses, which you won't have to pay for if you're in education. It also included a second pair, so I got a photochromic pair and one with anti-reflective coating for working with computers. So... £60 each?

 

[Broady Brio]

After Wiki'ing John Major, I completely understand why people would want to spend a bit more on glasses. However, it doesn't completely sell me on about £200+ on them. My glasses while bland and ordinary are not large like his, they are small, matching my rather small face. Believe it or not, there was some variety I could choose from for free. It's just that they were not vastly different.

That's fair enough. I got my most recent pair (rimless, thin, a fashion brand's name on them, but covered up by my hair) from Tescos for £120 in total (after I got one of the free eye-tests they give out in June-July sort of time), which admittedly doesn't include paying for my lenses, which you won't have to pay for if you're in education. It also included a second pair, so I got a photochromic pair and one with anti-reflective coating for working with computers. So... £60 each?

Fine. I took advantage of being a student so I got my lenses for free. Mind you, I'm not blind without them, just short-sighted, so I don't use them that often, which is another reason why I didn't want to spend a lot on them.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

But I don't wear glasses! Now I can't post anything except this pointless post explaining why I can't post anything!
I guess if I have to wipe off my sunglasses I just use my sleeve.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Normally I just use my shirt, but if I'm at home I grab a pair of clean boxers. Underwear is probably the softest cloth I own so why not. Also the drawer is right next to my desk so I don't even have to get up.

 

[TimeLord]

Me wearing my glasses;

Spoiler