Don't speak too soon

[nineveh_uk]

Further to my last, I have just tried on the most amazing pair of glasses in the entire world. They are so light they seem to float on the face as if they are made of anti-gravity material. The price is probably ones soul.

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[antisoppist]

I've just bought a car (and driven it home). You will be wearing your glasses more often than I will be driving my car. Therefore whatever they cost, they will be cheap by comparison.

There you go. Sorted.

[nineveh_uk]

But at least cars are SUPPOSED to be expensive, and you can't get a perfectly serviceable one for £70. It is quite possible that I am going to succumb, but I am going to stand aside from alluring Danish glasses for a day or two to think it over. And possibly dash to Boots this pm while the memory is fresh to see if the alternative feels fine or hopelessly inferior.

Congratulations on the car! Enjoy driving it. Where are you going to park it??

[tree_and_leaf]

How much would you feel happy to pay for a winter coat? Probably a good bit more than £70 - but you wear your glasses all the time.

[nineveh_uk]

I have indeed paid considerably more than £70 for a winter coat... And a summer coat. I am going to see if I can find something in the middle, not quite so extravagant, but I am keeping it open as a serious option.

but you wear your glasses all the time
This is a useful sentence in thinking about it, because actually I don't wear my glasses all of the time, because I don't like wearing glasses. So something that addresses the twin issues of comfort and vanity does offer genuine benefit.

[caulkhead]

Comfortable glasses that neither rub, press nor fall off your nose are worth a good chunk of your soul at the very least.

[nineveh_uk]

This is true, especially the pressing. I have been trying on glasses all afternoon and my nose is killing me. I am doing a search. If I can find something for a middle value that ticks most of the boxes, I will probably go for that (it's amazing how something really expensive can make something you had previously dismissed as too expensive feel reasonably priced), but if I can't - well, I got a small lump sum pay award at work last month...

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Optichell Express?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

And see ye not yon braid, braid road,
That lies across the lily leven?

The mystery of why the Queen of Elfland asks Thomas Rhymer if he can't see the roads is solved - he'd forgotten his glasses.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

That was me, logged out.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for new glasses, even if they do cost a fortune!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It's fair to say that even if I don't go for these, my budget has increased significantly! And I genuinely need new frames, as my existing ones are too heavy.

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

If they cost as much as a used car, you can always use the excuse I made up when I bought my last pair ($600 for frames and because my prescription is most definitely not boring, I'm pretty much looking at a grand to start, regardless): I'll be wearing these every day for at least four years, so that's ($1400/(365*4))=significantly less than the cost of a cup of coffee/day.

And if you love them, you might even be able to just get replacement lenses next time you need a changeover, which amortises the cost of the frames over an even longer period of time. I got almost nine years out of a beloved set of frames that way, so they ended up costing almost nothing! Or so I told myself.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Crikey, I'm glad that I have a boring prescription! That's a hell of a lot for lenses. I hope that your frames are nice!

These would buy a considerably worse car, but you could just get one. I shall also note the lens argument - my prescription is pretty stable, so I'd been counting on having them for some years and had then suddenly thought "But what if my eyes did get worse and you'd spent all that money?" In some ways, I am basically trying to create my last frames, which I absolutely loved and retired wrecked after 7 years.