Fuming with DP and glasses

[TwoCoffeesPlease]

In October last year my DP left his glasses on the floor when taking a nap on the sofa, he stepped on them when he woke up and they broke. Replaced with specsavers 241, £300 all in because of the lenses.

TWO WEEKS later we were on holiday and he left his BRAND NEW glasses on the floor in our bedroom just randomly between the door and bed. I went for a wee in the dark in the night, stepped on them and they broke AGAIN.

Fortunately there was a pair left from the 241.

DP has a manual job that creates a lot of dust, general debris in the air. He normally wears an old pair of glasses but yesterday claimed he couldn’t find them and wore his normal ones to work. Comes back and the lenses are terribly scratched and he can’t see through them properly so they will now also need replacing!

That’s three pairs of glasses in 5 months!! I am furious at the waste of money and carelessness. We are trying to save to do house renovations as we bought a fixer upper and I am just furious at the constant set backs because of carelessness!

Oh and the work glasses were on his desk in his office upstairs, I found them in 10 seconds

@HadaVerde

Why is he spending so much on glasses.

If he isn’t wearing them constantly and so leaving them around then they must just be for close work/reading?

Get a multi pack of readers from Amazon. 4 pairs for around £10.

No he needs them all the time. The times ha has taken them off have been when he is sleeping. He is a minus 4.5 prescription so really quite blind.

I am going to suggest he gets some cheaper ones though, I also wear glasses and have never broken any

Why does he need such expensive ones?
My DP needs expensive glasses and has work ones and good ones so I get it but if he's just short sighted can't get he some cheap ones?

It’s not just the glasses duedre

I could only dream of getting cheap glasses, with my prescription I need very expensive lenses. Last lenses cost me nearly £500. So getting cheap glasses off the shelf is not always possible. But because mine are so expensive (and are always on my face) I look after them. I’ve worn glasses for 50+ years and never broken them as an adult, apart from once when I had a fall and hit the pavement face first.

Yes - buy on line - much much cheaper. You need to ask the optician for the Pupillary Distance - they do not put this on the prescription but are obliged to tell it to you if you ask. You will need it to buy online.

I have a complicated prescription - very short sighted and astigmatic, and also have high index varifocal lenses - but online seller had no problem with it.

Is he 9?

As someone who really needs their glasses, mine are always somewhere safe. But anyway, Asda are brilliant. I've got complex lenses and still got two pairs for £150, but you can go cheaper with budget frames and they still include all the lens options

@scoobydoo1971

Request a copy of the eye prescription from the place you were both tested. Then order cheaper glasses using an online shop. Huge mark up on High street shop frames.

Err.... very mch depends on what sort of eye problems you have, I have astimagmatisism and would never buy a pair online beause they need a very precise position of the eye pupil on the frame. Add varifocals on the top.....

Unfortunatly, some prescriptions just cannot be done on the cheap.

@Mischance

Yes - buy on line - much much cheaper. You need to ask the optician for the Pupillary Distance - they do not put this on the prescription but are obliged to tell it to you if you ask. You will need it to buy online.

That's interesting....

Where do you then buy the lenses/frame @Mischance?

My chap loses or breaks around 4-8 pairs a year. He has cheap glasses that cost about £15 a pair so I just leave him to it and mock him thoroughly. He only needs them for reading so they often end up in the pocket of his jeans... which is where things go wrong! But he puts up with my grumpiness so I call it even. ;)

-4 ish he can still order online for very little - try the online glasses places like googles4u and glasses direct etc.

I am -9.50 with astigmatism and need varifocals. I have retinal issues and Asda etc don’t / won’t do the complex £500 lenses I need. I can’t order them online. I live in fear of breaking my glasses!!

TheApexOfMyLife ..... Google "Buy glasses online" - lots of companies to choose from.