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HOW TO BUY LOW-COST GLASSES

If you are like me, you are low income. It doesn’t matter why, but you are and sometimes you need things to prevent your quality of life from dipping too much. Like a decent pair of eyeglasses.

Zenni Optical was brought to my attention by one of the residents at the clinic I interned at. The staff is remarkably skilled and it was my privilege to be able to work with them for 300 hours. Anyway, they serve many low-income folks and, instead of them sending them to their optician to look at frames, they recommended taking the up to date prescription and plugging it in at Zenni to get a good pair.

What you need

• Your eyeglasses prescription. Get it however:

Dig it up from your paperwork

Call the last place that did your exam and pick it up

Pay for a new eye exam, decline fitting, and take the paper

• Your pupillary distance

This is likely on your script somewhere. Look for “PD” and the number behind it. Otherwise, try this.

Here’s what you do:

Make an account at Zenni.

Plug in your prescription. I won’t go into the details of why and how scripts are written the way they are and how cool it is. Just plug in the values exactly as you see them. OD (ocular dexter) is the right eye and OS (ocular sinister) is the left. Sphere, cylinder, and axis for each. 

It should look like this: 

Now shop for some glasses and order. 

Cheapest pair is about $7. Shipping is a flat $4.95 no matter how many pairs you order. Sales are often so, sometimes, shipping is free.

You can also order prescription sunglasses! Just make to order a regular pair in whatever frame, import the prescription you plugged in, and choose Add Standard Lens Tint. 

I recently order my sunglasses because my eyes are going to boil out of their sockets. Took about a week. Came with a lens wipe cloth, PD ruler, and a case. Lenses are accurate and the frame doesn’t feel cheap or unbalanced. 

SUPER.

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Lots of people I know order from zenni and they get wickedly cute glasses for cheap. It’s awesome.

Yall, my mom used to work for a optometrist and she always reccomend these to her patients who couldnt afford reg high priced glasses. This site is bomb. Ive been ordering my glasses from here for years

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This is where all my glasses have come from for the last 10+ years.

I swear by these guys. I have never had a problem with the cut or focal point which I have had with Davis and other insurance that make you go through their lab. Even their most tricked out glasses are cheaper than store glasses.

I’m wearing Zenni glasses right now. A couple of tips:

• If you can fork over the additional $15 for the deluxe anti-smudge coating, it is SO WORTH IT. (Also, their free microfiber clothes are the best I’ve ever found and I wish they sold them separately.)
  
• Frames can be adjusted a little following instructions on the website, but for best results going into an actual glasses store is best. It takes five minutes and any decent place will do it for free, no questions asked. If you’d like and can afford it you can buy some cleaning clothes or a glasses case or something so you don’t feel like you’re taking advantage.
  

I will also note that while my glasses have held up well so far (2 years for the oldest), they are marginally but noticeably less sturdy than the ones I bought via traditional means. It has yet to be a real issue for me, but if you’re particularly hard on your glasses it’s something to be aware of.

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