Another fluff: Do you buy/wear expensive or cheap sunglasses

A mix...I have some pricey ones and a slew of cheap ones. Just depends on what I am doing.

Inexpensive. I have a tendency to lose them!!

Cheap. I always lose them.

I have both expensive and cheap pairs. I like expensive ones for day to day use and the cheap ones for camping and beach days. I am careless with my cheap ones but very careful with my expensive ones.

Mine range from $9.99 to $600 or so. I do cheapies when we go to the beach with the fam, at the pool with my niece, on the boat/tubing/skiiing, or when they're likely to get broken. Sunglasses are kind of my jam so if i'm behaving like a grown up I wear more pricey ones. I usually choose them as incentives from the company and my sponsor and i'm surprised at how well i've actually taken care of them b/c I was a serial sunglasses killer.

Right now i'm rotating Tom Ford, Coach, Michael Kors, Prada, and Tiffany. I just broke a pair of Tiffany a couple of weeks ago, but i'd had them for5 years so I suppose they put in their time. I cried still though. I loved those shades. The good part is that most people around here don't buy designed retail and don't really follow trends but get all excited about the brand names so I can usually wear them for 2-3 years and then resell for 1/2-3/4 of what they cost originally. Works for me, I love an update!

Cheap! There are always people with tables of $5 sunglasses on the streets in the summer. If I break a pair, I just buy more. I, too, just toss them in my purse with no case.

This is the first summer that I'll be wearing glasses full-time - I used to wear contacts much more often - so I guess I need to rethink my strategy. Maybe a pair of transitioning lenses from Zenni is in order...

(I can no longer use the word "transition" in any of its forms without thinking of transsexuals!)

Whenever we go to NYC, we always find the knock off Oakleys. I buy 6 or 7 pair for $10 each.

Cheap. I lose them so I don't see the point in spending a ton of money on them. There's a company I really like called icueyewear.com that make reading glasses and recently they just started carrying sunglasses too. I buy them at Whole Foods when I'm there grocery shopping. I have an abnormally small face and most glasses are too big on my face, so it really helps if I can try them on in person. This company makes glasses sized for my face, and at a great price. 

I found some sunglasses that are polarized and wrap around that fit my face perfectly and cost less than $18.00. That works for me. 

Debbie in MD.

I buy expensive sunglasses, and I take good care of them and use them for 2 years. They are prescription, so I alternate sunglasses and regular glasses.

Polarized Ray Bans. Middle of the road for price.

I used to spend $20 max and was always breaking pairs, plus loss of sunglasses don't fit me right, they're too close to my face and fog up. Dh got a gift card from my referring him for lasik, so he got me Asian fit Oakley sunglasses and they fit perfectly. Of course now that I have expensive sunglasses with a fancy case my kids always want to wear and play with my glasses...so far so good though, fingers crossed they'll last a while. They're about a year old.

I usually buy cheapish ones because I hate spending money on sunglasses (and shoes and handbags). My mum gave me a pair of her super expensive sunglasses that she didn't wear any more and sure enough I lost them. Found them again a week later, but after that I dropped them on the concrete floor at Costco and smashed the lens. It was going to cost hundreds of dollars to get them fixed so I didn't bother.

My SIL bought me a fabulous pair of Guess sunnies for Christmas 2 years ago and I have been guarding those babies like you wouldn't believe. I'm going to get prescription lens put in them for next summer so even more reason for me to be really careful of them.

My eyeglasses are transitions, so no need to get another pair.

I wear a strong prescription, but do not wear contacts. My insurance only covers one pair of glasses (my day to day regular ones) so by default, any sunglasses I buy are going to cost me a pretty penny.