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What single item improved the quality of your life over you got it? (Buyed it/got as present/made it) (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by arthur@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Uluganda@lemmy.ml 58 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Glasses.

Now I'm addicted.

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As in lenses for your face, or drinkware?

Either way, yes.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just any kind of glass.

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Microscope slides, dildos, windows, bongs, pyrex

[–] limeaide@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I went through a glasses addiction myself as well lol. I found an eye-care clinic where they would cut the lenses and have them ready within 3 hours.

I would go to garage sales, thrift stores, and swap meets to find glasses to put lenses on. They were like $60 for the lenses and I never spent more than $10 on frames.

I ended up with 3 seeing glasses and 4 sun glasses before I realized it was going to be unsustainable to get new lenses for my new prescription every year.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Addicted is a good way to put it. I suffer withdrawal symptoms like dizziness and nausea when I go more than a few waking minutes without my glasses.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just say no to glasses kids, or you'll end up like this guy.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I put on glasses once as a kid, now i'm glasses for life!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I got hooked in my mid 20s, and it's like I can't imagine how lived without them