khannie

You will not believe this but when I emailed for my prescription earlier I was told I'm well overdue (2021 was my last test) and I said "time flies". She took the time to write "OUT OF DATE" twice on the scan.

Thanks for the timeline.

Just wanted to come back and say thanks. I emailed my optician for my prescription and bought a pair of glasses off this site for €17 delivered (about $19 USD). Do you mind me asking how long yours took to arrive? I'm in one of the "standard delivery" countries.

Ah! I knew there was a place someone had mentioned to me before that they were happy with and couldn't remember the name. It was Zenni. I ended up buying from that site linked above for very cheap and I'm going to do some experimenting with these scratched ones when the new ones get here.

Yeah one of the recommended things I saw was furniture polish or car wax to fill them in. Both would only be temporary. Based on the replies so far I may give this a whirl as I don't see it being damaging.

Ah unfortunately they've taken a bit of abuse over the years. Nothing major so the scratches are really tiny but enough of them have built up from rough and tumble with the kids etc. that they're a constant annoyance now. :(

I do actually do the dishsoap / warm water thing myself and find it great.

These were my backup pair on a 2 for 1 offer so I didn't get any lens coating / thinner lens thing on them.

Thanks. Just had a look and that is incredibly cheap. They also do ~~free~~ standard shipping to my country so I will seriously consider this.

two days, per lens

HOLY MOLY! Fair play to you for the perseverance though.

You know, this is so blindingly obvious I never thought of it. Haha! Great idea.

edit: I actually can't believe I didn't think of this. Chuckling away to myself here.

edit 2: I looked up the opticians I bought from and they have a page about scratches that says they can't unfortunately. :( It recommends new lenses. Not sure if that's profit motive or not though.

Ha! I did actually cop that. :)

Ah it was in jest but sure here we find ourselves.

Compress those suckers!