Glasses

Today I got another pair of glasses. I do this on a regular basis. It is always a challenge. It is incredibly expensive.
I have worn glasses since I was 10 years old. I was never blind, just nearsighted enough to need them for distance. I broke and lost my share of many pairs of ugly glasses when I was a kid!
When I was 16, I decided I just had to have contact lenses. My father said no. I waited until I was a student nurse and convinced the eye clinic at the county hospital to fit me with a pair of hard lenses. I loved them, in spite of the pain and hassle. I still had to have back up glasses. In my mid thirties, I need bifocals. More glasses. I used a contact lens system. (soft ones, by then) called mono vision. A close up lens in one eye and a distance lens in the other. In my forties, I was told that I needed trifocals. More glasses. No more contact lenses.
I still break my glasses on a regular basis. My husband has soldered more frames that I can remember.

Ugly glasses. I broke these on purpose!

My first pair of wire frames. These backed up contacts for years.

Fashion glasses. They stick out too far.

 The biggest challenge with glasses is picking out the frames. I have tried being stylish. It is hard to pick out a frame that you will wear, most of your waking hours, for at least a year. When I got a little more money, I would buy 2 pair of glasses, so I would not only have the back up pair, I would have choice. I still often ended up with at least 1, if not 2 pair of glasses that I did not really like.
Now, in my sixties, I have decided "fashion be damned". I will only wear the rimless or half rim "granny glasses" with the trifocal lines, that I truly love.