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Nzoner's Game Room>Prescription eyeglasses: What a racket!
scho63 03:07 PM 03-26-2024
I've been wearing contact lenses for about 45 years and only wear my eyeglasses for backup, puttering around the house, to give me eyes a rest or for a quick short drive to a store or fast food drive through.

I hadn't bought new eyeglasses for about 14 years and they are beat up, scratched and old prescription.

During the last 3 months of my doctor-palooza visits, I went to my opthalmologist for a checkup. I suffered two retinal detachments, one in June 2002 in my right eye and the second with two tears in my left eye in May 2004, almost to the day.

My prescription is super high as my eyesight is horrible. I need binoculars to see 5 feet in front of me.

About a month ago got the checkup done and a new prescription.

This week I went shopping for a new pair of eyeglasses. I nearly fainted as I got prices with the frames I picked of $585-$730. The refractive lenses for high prescriptions was over $300 alone.

Today I went to Walmart vision and got a real nice pair of glasses and lenses for $213.

I felt like a champ leaving a Walmart. What a difference.

How the hell can a family afford eyeglasses if a couple of kids and one parent needs them.

Holy shit just crazy cost. :-)
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IowaHawkeyeChief 03:11 PM 03-26-2024
Dude, get with the times...

https://www.warbyparker.com/?g_adgro...RoCa6MQAvD_BwE
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Womble 03:13 PM 03-26-2024
$213!!! You could buy a lunch with that kind of money.
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loochy 03:14 PM 03-26-2024
My vision insurance is $2 a month.


They prescribed me some glasses, even though I don't really need them. It cost me $0. :-)
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scho63 03:23 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief:
Dude, get with the times...

https://www.warbyparker.com/?g_adgro...RoCa6MQAvD_BwE
They were more expensive. Not behind the times ..:-)
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scho63 03:24 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by Womble:
$213!!! You could buy a lunch with that kind of money.
Two of my lunches and about twenty of yours.
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Womble 03:30 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by scho63:
Two of my lunches and about twenty of yours.
Or you could get 21 blowjobs from unemployed seamen in Baltimore.
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FlaChief58 03:36 PM 03-26-2024
That's a lot of breadsticks, endless soup and salad!
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IowaHawkeyeChief 03:39 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by scho63:
They were more expensive. Not behind the times ..:-)
depends. They are fairly cheap and you can return if you don't like.
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Peter Gibbons 03:43 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by Womble:
Or you could get 21 blowjobs from unemployed seamen in Baltimore.
Too soon. Try it again in five more posts as more time will have past by then.
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loochy 03:45 PM 03-26-2024

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DaFace 03:50 PM 03-26-2024
You can get a pair on Zenni for $7, though I usually add a few upgrades and end up around $50.
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displacedinMN 04:27 PM 03-26-2024
https://www.eyebuydirect.com/
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scho63 04:58 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by Womble:
Or you could get 21 blowjobs from unemployed seamen in Baltimore.
I bet you know a lot about seamen.
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BigRedChief 07:36 PM 03-26-2024
Originally Posted by Womble:
$213!!! You could buy a lunch with that kind of money.
I don’t like Warby Parker. So I paid $300 for my last pair and that’s with insurance.
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