If you’re not elderly but need a glasses chain what do you wear?

[LivingInaBuildingSite]

I’m ‘only’ 46 but wear varifocal glasses (even saying that makes me feel ancient!).

Have started a new care assistant job and need to have my glasses on to see the logging device (like a mobile phone you record anything you’ve done with residents) but don’t need them on the rest of the time.

I’ve tried putting them in my pockets but not ideal. I tend to put them on my head but they keep falling off whenever I bend down.

So I’ve come to the sad conclusion that I need a granny glasses chain.
But don’t want it to look tooooo granny esque.

What solutions have other MNers come up with?

All varifocal lenses are covered by a non tolerance guarantee. Don't just waste your money! Take them back and get bifocals or get them changed to reading glasses or occupational lenses. It shouldn't cost you anything depending on how long you have had them.

I’m tempted to buy….just think would look so funky and mother earthy for when I’m sat having a coffee and reading a book 📕

I quite like the clip idea, once I’d got the confidence it worked. I’ll try the running one, the colourful Amazon ones, then the Clip if I get that far and see what works best.

Watching with interest mainly for when my glasses steam up when I go into shops with a mask on

@LivingInaBuildingSite

In theory they should I agree, but I just don’t need them for care work activities and they’re new to me so give me a headache walking around, turning my head quickly, etc.

I skimped and paid slightly less to get less ‘vari’ in the focal or something, wish I hadn’t now as the side of the lenses are useless.

I think they’re generally too loose as I’m always pushing them up my nose too so should take them back for tightening, if that’s a thing. Didn’t have glasses at all until between lockdowns, then switched to varifocals after the second lockdown as my eyes got worse so quickly.

Opticians are bloody expensive too so I don’t want to go back and be told I need more new ones again,

Yes I found them hopeless. Only two very small fields of vision and i developed headaches. I took them back and changed them for three pairs of reading glasses which I either use with contacts or alternate with normal specs.

So I suppose I need two chains really.

and they’re new to me so give me a headache walking around, turning my head quickly, etc.

They do take some getting used to but if you only wear them occasionally you won't get used to them. It is worth going back to have them adjusted.

….the whole point of varifocals is that you leave them on. Other wise might as well just have standard glasses.

@CurlyMango

….the whole point of varifocals is that you leave them on. Other wise might as well just have standard glasses.

This ^^

I wear varifocals - all the time.