Glasses - more of a What Do You Do?

[Eleventwelths]

I’ve started wearing glasses. They steam up in the bath and shower wearing is impossible (needed to shave legs and read); they steam up in the kitchen; they fall off my head if I bend down to help DC with something...

How do you cope?!

In the shower I run them under the water then they stay clear enough to shave, find shampoo etc. For everything else I wear contact lenses as they are so much easier.

I don't wear mine in the bath or shower - I blindly shave and don't read (I believe kindles allow you to enlarge font but I am not a fan of them). The steaming up in the kitchen/rain is sadly unavoidable. They can tighten glasses for a better fit as they shouldn't fall off all the time so perhaps go back to your opticians about that. Could you wear contact lenses? I wear them and do find glasses even more annoying now when I wear them all day.

My vision is weird, can’t have contact lenses and don’t think I’d dare put them in anyway, squeamish!

Will try the shower trick, thanks.

Go back to the opticians and get them fitted properly, they shouldn’t slide off your head like that! I have to get mine re-fitted every now and again as they stretch.

You should be able to shave your legs without them on... I’m blind as a bat and manage!

In the shower I work blind (very bad eyesight) and shave by feel and memory.
In the bath I just dunk them in the water to bring them up to temperature.
Don't wear them your head as that's how they end up getting broken, either put them in a case in your pocket or wear them properly.

I can only just manage to shave my armpits without mine let alone my legs (-12 prescription). However I assume the OP hasn't got that strong a prescription if she's only just started wearing them.

I think to some extent its getting used to them. As I wear contacts most of the time I never get totally used to glasses and still forget that they need to come off before taking off a tee shirt or whatever.

I mostly shave my legs by feel. Shave, check with fingers, repeat. Admittedly I do sometimes get out and realise I have missed a patch but when it's really essential I wear them and wipe when they steam up.
It is one of the many nuisances of being blind as a bat.

To read, as I'm short sighted I tend to prefer to read without my glasses when in bed or the bath. I guess I hold my kindle up closer than when I'm reading elsewhere, but for me the font is smaller with glasses so my preference is to read without when possible. Maybe I'm weird

I read my phone in bed without glasses and held about 2" from my nose but my Kindle is too wide for my eyes to read the whole line of text without moving from side to side. Don't read in the bath.

I can't put make-up on at all without contacts as I have to hold the mirror so close I can't get my other hand between it and and my face.