<p>One pair of trifocal, which I never use. I don´t find them to be very helpful, I can´t see any better. I also have a lot of sunglasses that I never wear.</p>
<p>I have two pair. </p>
<p>a) A distance pair for driving, watching TV, walking outdoors, etc.</p>
<p>b) A transitions pair, but with the top half optimized for about 4 feet – perfect for the computer screen, cooking at the kitchen counter, eating meals, etc. This gives me a wide field of view for these everyday tasks and is basically my full-time “indoors” set. I can see well enough, even across the room, with these. This transitions to my reading strength (basically nothing for me) at the bottom. So I can glance between something I’m reading and the computer screen, or do a little project in my hands. Because the difference between the top and bottom strengths is relatively small, you don’t get many of the disadvantages of the transitions lens – it’s trying to go from strong distance all the way to reading that creates the problems.</p>
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<p>I still never have the right pair in the right room!</p>
<p>UGH, Baby Boomer eyesight! A Pair of bifocal prescription eyeglasses, disposable contacts, (not bifocal contacts, they did not work for me) and numerous, numerous drug store glasses of 2.0 all over the place: by laptop, by TV, in purse, in car, on night stand. </p>
<p>Can not be bothered with prescription sunglasses, I know that I would ruin them with sand, sit on them etc! Just buy cheapo sunglasses for over my contact lenses.</p>
<p>One pair for far away (in a car), one pair for far away by bed to watch TV if I see better with them (sometime I see TV better without glasses), one pair for far away to take on vacations (just in case, almost never use). One pair of prescription shades for far away (in a car, for driving). One pair of prescription shades for far away to go for a walk and take on vacations. One pair of reading glasses for close up work with pottery.
I do not need glasses for computer screen. My far away vision is improving from check up to check up, so I do not wear glasses at all except while driving and sometime while watching TV. I order new glasses only when I am up for another pair with my insurance. I stick to under $50 total.</p>
<p>Target $1 glasses- 150 strength for the computer, 200 for reading the paper, 250 for reading books. Multiple pair all over the house although I try to corral them every now and then so I can start spreading them around again. I don’t like reading through progressives-- it interferes with scanning. Prescription very strong (I call them X-ray vision) for needlepoint only. Good progressives that I keep in my purse and wear at work, shopping or eating in a restaurant. Good nonprescription polarized sunglasses that I wear anytime I go outside (need no distance correction) or driving. I have some emergency 200s in the car for ATMs etc.</p>
<p>amazingly- even though I have about a zillion pairs of non-prescription reading glasses all over the pacific northwest- I have been able to keep track of two of them- both from [icueyewear.com:</a> ICU](<a href=“http://www.icueyewear.com/]icueyewear.com:”>http://www.icueyewear.com/), an orange floral pair & purple ones that I even broke down and bought a* fishing line- w glass beads* keeper for.</p>
<p>I get a lot of comments on them, mostly from those under 40, who with any luck won’t be needing them for a couple more decades. ;)</p>
<p>I bought some frames at Costco, but unfortunately, they can’t do my prescription if I have bifocals- I am going to see if they can make them single vision sunglasses.</p>
<p>I have non prescription sunglasses as well, that I wear with my contacts. Because I have dry eyes, I don’t wear my contacts much, even though I am very nearsighted, they still don’t correct enough for driving. But my regular prescription glasses are so heavy, even with the high index, that I get a headache. 
( & I have a pair of wrap around sunglasses that I wear over my glasses, that are pretty dark- I use them when snow tracking)</p>
<p>I seriously think I am going to take a trip to Vancouver BC., you can get * glass* glasses there & Last year I paid several thousands of dollars to get new plastic frames & lenses- which had required expensive coatings, but are now all scratched even though I mostly use a microfiber cloth & am very careful</p>
<p>I’ve worn glasses since I was in 4th grade & I needed them before that, it just took a while of me nagging my parents to have my eyes checked, once I realized I couldn’t see things that others could.
My older daughter has been wearing glasses since she was in 2nd grade, although my H, just a few years ago, starting wearing a low prescription for driving and another non-scrip for reading.
Nearsightedness is dominant unfortunately & I think all this close computer work isn’t helping- although I have noticed that since I started getting better about taking anti-oxidants, I don’t have to wear the reading glasses as much with my contacts.</p>
<p>It would be great if lasik worked for people like me- but my correction is too high, plus I suspect I have the beginnings of macular degeneration. I don’t see detail ( face blindness- which is soo :o ) but I am not the only one -
Oliver Sacks has it too.
I am not near that bad :)</p>
<p>I just have one pair of progressive bifocals, which are on my face before I get out of bed. I’m not sure I could find the floor without them! 
I also keep a pair of Fitovers in the car. They’re great sunglasses, and I like how they also block the sun on top and on the sides. I can’t drive after dark anymore, but I used to wear them while driving at night in the rain–they cut the glare of oncoming headlights.</p>
<p>I wear no-line progressives that are the first things on in the morning and the last things off at night( ever since I needed “the clapper” to find where I had left my single visions!) I have 2 pairs. You always need to have a back up–learned that the hard way. I adore my transistions lenses, the ones that darken in the sun. I find that I wear the clear glasses only on rainy days. I probably would never buy clear ones again. How’s this for economy? When the frames went last year, I had the optician find a new frame that would fit the old lenses.</p>
<p>I have two pairs of Rx glasses for distance & one pair of Rx sunglasses. Am thinking of buying a 2nd pair of Rx sunglasses, but we will see. Also have tons of readers all over the house (3 pairs @ $19 from Costco). Hubby & I use whatever readers are handy & adjust the distance depending on what we’re reading and the strength of the reader. LOL! 
My kids have countless old pairs and generally one or two pairs of current distance Rx glasses. I plan to get them each a pair of Rx sunglasses. H & D also have contacts. H mainly uses his contacts so has no use for Rx sunglasses. D varies as to how much she wears her contacts. Since I started having dry eyes a few years back, I’ve given up my contacts. :(</p>