To tell DH to stop borrowing my glasses?

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I need reading glasses - I've got two pairs, so one pair lives upstairs on my bedside table, for when I read at night, and the other pair is for downstairs. I can't read without them, so I keep them on all the time, either on the top of my head, or using them. I also have a pair of glasses to use when I'm on the PC, which live on the desk when not in use. This means I always know where my glasses are, and have them handy when I need them. Or it should do.

Dh has recently started to need reading glasses - though his eyesight is better than mine, and he can still read, if he holds the book or whatever out at arm's length. He also has two pairs of reading glasses, but often finds himself unable to find them when he needs them. When he can't find his glasses, he'll pick mine up (either from the desk, or my proper reading glasses from the kitchen, where I put them when I'm upstairs).

I'm not particularly happy about him doing this at all, but what really annoys me is when he takes my glasses, uses them, and then puts them somewhere different, so I can't find them.

AIBU to tell him to stop using my bloody glasses if he can't put them back where he found them?

Yes - first world problem, I know, but it is pissing me off.

Yanbu. He's a total arse not putting them back and should put his on a string so he always has them.

Would it be unreasonable of me to glue them onto his face?

Glasses are not for sharing.
I may be biased as I'm so short sighted I NEVER lose my glasses, the worst that happens is they get knocked off the side table in my sleep. I borrow everything off DH if it suits me, but I'd rather borrow his toothbrush than his glasses!

@Love51

Glasses are not for sharing. I may be biased as I'm so short sighted I NEVER lose my glasses, the worst that happens is they get knocked off the side table in my sleep. I borrow everything off DH if it suits me, but I'd rather borrow his toothbrush than his glasses!

I was short sighted before I had laser surgery, I agree that glasses for short sightedness are not for sharing.

Now I need reading glasses, they seem more generic, not least because I buy them off the shelf in Tesco or a chemist. Wouldn’t bother me at all if DH sometimes borrowed them, I always have a few pairs lying around the house.

I have tried the reading glasses you can buy from Tesco or wherever, but my own glasses fit me better, and are fitted to my prescription (including curve as well as the sight correction number), so they are definitely better for me than the over-the-counter ones.

Put some Deep Heat on the ear hook bits (or Tesco's own brand, if they still do it, it's even more lethal).

For the love of all that is holy though, don't forget you've put it on. Maybe grab a cheap pair from the supermarket to use for a day or two so it doesn't backfire and get you.

Or if causing pain is too much for you...

Garlic puree.

YADNBU. It's a shame you can't find some way of putting a thumb print recognition device on it, so if anybody else apart from you touches it, it gives them an electric shock.

I also had a pair upstairs and a pair downstairs and my DH does exactly the same as yours now that he needs reading glasses. You need to hide your reading glasses - put them in a drawer or a box or behind a book and don't ever tell them that's where they are!

Maybe he won't be able to find his wallet or car keys when he needs them?
If he asks where they are, tell him "They're with my reading glasses".

Get those spec cords or chains and make sure his own are always hanging around his neck. Then he has no need to borrow yours.

Buy him a box of cheap ones and tell him to stop using yours, it'd drive me insane. He needs to look after his things better and stop using yours

Or get a couple of little lock boxes!

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

Would it be unreasonable of me to glue them onto his face?

Yes, completely unreasonable.

Use a staple gun instead.

I'm the sort of person who has the tv remote controls zip tied to a piece of wood, and nail scissors and tweezers tied to the bathroom sink with a bit of string - so I'm your guy

Option 1- buy some supermarket spectacles. Vaseline the lenses. Or even WD40 for that added fishy smell. Put them in place of yours (which are now hidden somewhere safe or around your neck.)
Option 2 - buy the most foul cheapest glasses you could ever imagine. Again, hide yours. The pain of not having your own glasses will be minimised by the fact your DH now looks like Deirdre Barlow.
Option 3 - attach your glasses to the sofa/pc/bedside table with string.

Buy him some old fashioned chained reading glasses and tell him to p*ss off. I would be furious if my DH used my glasses, mind you I’m blind without them but still!

I wouldn't be bothered by the actual using but the not returning would annoy me. Can you start "borrowing" something of his that he uses regularly (ipad? book? car keys? phone?) and leaving it elsewhere. Hopefully it might irritate him enough into getting the point.

I have come back to this thread, because he is still bloody doing it - my main pair of glasses now have a scratch on them, and the spare pair broke, so they are glued together, which is not ideal but is working for the moment.

And on Saturday, when I came downstairs and wanted to read the paper, I had to wait until HE was finished with MY glasses.

I've even tried hiding them, but he seems to find them.

I need a new prescription, but until I can get to Boots for a test, and get the new glasses, I am worried that my glasses will all end up broken, or scratched and useless. They might do anyway, even if dh stops using them - but then it would be my own fault, and I'd have no-one to blame but myself.