new glasses

[sirrahbed]

Remember Catnapper's thread about the place to order spare eyeglasses?

I had to try these for myself also.

I used a millimeter measuring tape and took all the dimensions from my favorite pair and ordered a spare that are nearly the same style plus a different style just for fun. The Optometrist mailed me my Rx and pupil distance. I have bifocals but want to go back to a single lens because I only use them for movies and driving. I have never liked the reading bifocal and do not need it to read. I can't imagine how they could make a bifocal though - they are so hard to get just right in person.

$25 for two pair including the shipping I got one "cheapo" for $8 and then popped for an "expensive" pair...$12.95 Will wait and see how they look when they arrive!

*update* the glasses arrived - less than two weeks with Labor Day in there, too. Like Kim, I am rather pleased!! They came with nice hard cases and microfiber cleaning cloths. I have to say that the $8 is flimsy. They look great but the wire frames are very thin. BUT perfect for keeping next to the TV. The prescriptions feels spot on and I already love not having that bifocal. The *expensive* pair seems to be the same quality as anything I have tried on in the optical shop. It has the springs in the earpiece to make them flexible, nosepieces very sturdy - I really like them!! I am going to order another pair with tinted lenses for sunglasses to keep in the car.
Oh and want to see me?
The first - rectangles are new to me - they are silver. I have never worn that shape but I like them. #4197 these are my *expensive $12.95* pair!




The second - ovals are $8.00 pair, a pink frame and very much like what I already have been wearing. #4100

[catnapper]

LOL Debbie!!! Glad you tried it and are happy with the results.

I ordered two more pairs from them too and got them last week.... I LOVE the one squarish pair. LOVE them. They're better and more comfortable than my expensive ones from a regular eyeglass store. I spent $22 for my last order and am thrilled with both pairs. I made a huge mistake on my first order by clicking the smaller sized pair -- MY STUPIDITY -- but the 1st order showed me how nice their product was.

Isn't that website addictive? I have to stop myself from ordering a hundred pairs in different colors to go with my mood and outfit Logic dictates a person does NOT need several pairs of glasses.... most people would claim one only needs a single pair of glasses But now I have my funky red plastic ones and "normal" ones for every day use. I like the plastic ones for laying in bed to watch TV, I don't worry about them bending out of shape.

I'm going to upgrade to thinner lenses next time I order. Their standard lens is the same thickness as my upgraded JC Penney pair... so how thin will the upgrade be with this website? I don't need any more glasses any time soon, so I'll wait til next year after I get my eyes rechecked

[catnapper]

Ok, Since Debbie is brave, I'll post my new frames too.
This is the round pair in what they called burgundy. I think these might be the same pair Debbie got!


and here are the blue square ones. I can not tell you how much I love these glasses!



Flutter wanted to know why I was kneeling on the floor in front of the desk so she got photographed too.... much to her annoyance.

[sirrahbed]

Kim - I also love those squarish frames on you!! They look great and very stylish. Oh and why do your pics look like portraits and mine look like smiling mugshots?

[Sirrahsim]

They look so nice!! The rectangular ones are my favorite but that is probably because that is the shape that I wear. It's crazy that you can get good quality lenses for so cheap!
I may need to buy a pair just for the thinner lenses! My rx is approximately -7.5 and -6.75 so my lenses are always super thick. I bought $160 lenses with this last pair of glasses and they still look like coke bottles. It would be interesting to see what my lenses would look like from this place.

[RedHedd]

OK, now you're tempting me! It took three tries to finally get a prescription that worked for me this year, which means I'm left without a back-up pair with my current Rx. Debbie, I'm with you - I dumped my bifocals many years ago when the frame styles got too small for my prescription to even be possible to make. I have a distance pair with magnetic polarized sun glass lenses and a reading pair. I kinda like having two pair, although sometimes I forget and walk around with my reading pair and wonder why things look wonky Silly me.

[sirrahved]

As soon as I get my new prescription I'm ordering more than one pair! I never thought I could afford a wardrobe of glasses!

[jennielynn1970]

Where is the link for this glasses place?? I missed the original thread, and mine are really expensive because of my astigmatism.

[Cincy'sMom]

Where is the link for this glasses place?? I missed the original thread, and mine are really expensive because of my astigmatism.

Yeah, I 'd like the link too. I couldn't make up my mind when I got my new glasses earlier this year, and at those prices I could get a few "funkier" styles I was considering just for fun!

Editing...Link to the original thread is in the first post. I missed it!

[sirrahbed]

Zenni Optical
Here ya go

[jennielynn1970]

Duh... I just saw the link in the first post, lol. I realy need to pay attention!!

[Cincy'sMom]

Okay, question about reading my perscription. I got the Right eye, pretty easy. Left eye I have an astigmatism and I'm not sure where the numbers fit in on the order form

My Scrip says OS -225-125x110

[catnapper]

I think the first number is the OD-SPH, the second number is the OD-CYL, and the third number is the OD-AXIS. You'd know if you had to p[lug in a nhumber for the OD-ADD. You will really need to know what your pupil dim is. I asked my doctor. I was a 60, which is smaller than what they say is normal.

[kimlovescats]

You both look great in your glasses. I just bought Amy Beth some new glasses at Wal-Mart but paid LOTS more than this. Darn!!!

Debbie, you are dwindling away, girlfriend! What is your diet secret???? PM me!!

[shais_mom]

that's friggin awesome!