Sjogren's Style: Spectacular Spectacles

This post from Sjogren's Style may have just solved my most recent lazybutt problem.

After my final eye exam following my cataract surgeries, my surgeon gave me a paper copy of a prescription for new glasses. Technically I don't need  prescription glasses for driving but my vision is not completely 20/20, and I definitely need to use reading glasses. So I stuffed the prescription into my wallet and there it has stayed for what seems like forever.

The thing is, I just hate choosing new glasses. Granted, this go-around will involve lenses that are considerably thinner than my previous coke-bottle-bottom ones, and I will not be wearing them continuously, so actually the task should be easier than ever before. I need to just go buy the stupid things. But I just don't want to do it.

In the meantime, I have been buying cheapo reading glasses and leaving them scattered around the house and car and everywhere I go.

Well. Who knew that you could order glasses online? Sjogren's Style's excellent post provides links and reviews of her purchases of several pair of glasses.

Cool. Online shopping. I adore online shopping.

Here's a snippet of her post but head over to her blog to read the entire article:

.....And here's what I've learned: 

• Pay close attention to the measurements. After all of my Warby Parker try-ons, I realized that a lot of glasses that look nice on the models are HUGE on me. The other web sites offer more detailed information (like lens height), so I was able to make a decent guess about what they'd look like. 

• The option to upload a picture of yourself is fun, but was kind of useless on most of the sites. They just don't size the glasses very well, so none of them looked like they did in the pictures in real life. 

• As you'd expect, the "free" options on these sites aren't always free. There are a lot of add-ons that are pretty important (esp. anti-glare/anti-reflective coating), but it's all still reasonably inexpensive.