If you were glasses....

Right now I only have one pair. But if your prescription isn't expensive, or you can afford it, have more than one!

I just have one, but I wear contacts sometimes as well.

Have you checked out zennioptical.com? That's where I got my current glasses from, and they were only about $45...could get about 3-4 pair for what I typically pay for glasses.

I wear contacts daily, but I do wear glasses maybe 1 day a week plus early morning/late night. I have several pairs. I've ordered 3 or 4 pairs from Zenni Optical and Coastal, and I'll never go back to buying $200+ glasses from the optometrist's office.

The ones from Zenni were cheaper feeling (and a lot cheaper to buy!), and the ones from Coastal were VERY high quality, more expensive but still about 1/3rd the cost of buying them from the optometrist's office. You need your Pupilary Distance, which your eye doctor should be willing to give you on your prescription. If you have a pair that already fit well, look for glasses with a similar width (will be printed on the arm of the glasses), and depending on how different of styles you want, maybe a similar height. Or at least use that for a gauge point. I found the "try these on" features on both websites to be quite accurate when I uploaded my picture.

I have a strong prescription and astigmatism too, so I got the upgraded lenses, and the cost still was so affordable.

I say have one or two really nice pairs and several less expensive pairs!!

I wear contacts when I'm at work, working out, wanting to look my best, and/or when I need peripheral vision (driving anywhere farther than my neighborhood). But I wear my glasses every day around the house, or for quick trips to run errands, or when my eyes are tired, so I do wear them a lot. I have two pairs. One lives in my purse in case my contacts start bothering me, and the other in my bathroom.

Zenni rocks! My last two pairs of glasses together were about $200. The pair before that, from the optician, was $750.

I have a complicated prescription, and I do need to get the most upgraded lenses possible for best results. I got a pair with cheaper lenses (it was a second pair of glasses, so I figured I didn't need to go all out), and they're pretty awful. To be fair, Zenni recommended the upgraded lenses based on my prescription, and I ignored it for that pair. Never again.

I need to get a new prescription soon. When I do, I'll head straight back to Zenni!

Two pairs, because I tend to take them off and then I can't see them to put them back on again! Cheap pair live in the bedroom so I always know where to find them

Mine are too expensive to have 2 pair. I was lucky enough that my prescription was stable long enough to get sunglasses. So I guess it's a second pair but not really. But I'd love to have a second regular pair.

1 pair and they are always on my face and are very expensive (the lenses, not the frames).

I have one pair with progressive lenses, all the upgrades (polycarbonate, Crizal anti reflective, etc.) and one pair that is for just reading, with the Rx needed for that distance. It's much easier to lie in bed and read with those than the progressive lenses.

1 pair of glasses, 1 pair prescription sunglasses. I have progressive lenses and glasses here in New Zealand set me back NZ$1300 so there's no way I'm buying extra before I need them

I have 4 pairs right now. One is sunglasses. I'm probably going to have to do the bifocal thing (I'll do progressives) at my next exam. I am thinking I will only have two pairs them. Sunglasses and everyday wear. I won't be able to afford progressive lenses for several pairs and don't think I would be able to get the measurements right for an online company.

I only had one pair of glasses and one pair of prescription sunglasses, because with my prescription and progressive lenses, they were way too expensive for another pair.

I just had cataract surgery with laser correction of my astigmatism and corrective lens implants. It's weird science! I have 20/20 vision, except for reading. I can tell I am going to need many pair of cheaters! I keep laying them down and having to hunt them up. That is where I thought this thread was going, lol. I was going to say "On the ironing board". That's where mine were about an hour ago.