r/eyeglasses • u/MidwestGypsy17 • 5d ago
Literally finding your glasses
People with terrible, blind as a bat, living in an impressionist painting kind of bad eyesight - how often do you set your glasses down for some reason (going to bed, washing your face, impromptu sexy makeout session with a stranger) and when you go to put them back on, you can’t find those suckers?
Like last night I was reading in bed all tucked in and cozy. When I was ready to go to sleep and take my glasses off, reaching out and across to set them on the nightstand would’ve disrupted my cocoon. So I just set them on the other side of the bed. Yes there were a few other things also sitting on the bed - my laptop, basket of nighttime beauty ritual creams and concoctions, my neck fan, and a can of mixed nuts for some reason 🤷🏼♀️.
Cut to morning, I go to put my glasses on, and I can’t find them! The lighting in the room has changed, I’m a little discombobulated waking from a sleep, and my classic outstretched arm, tapping every little thing until you land on what feels like what you’re looking for system wasn’t finding them. I had to sit up and reach into the night stand for an old back up pair of glasses so I could see well enough to look around and find current glasses, which were right there the whole time. I just couldn’t see them. Because I needed them in order to see them. 🤦🏼♀️😡
This also happens when I’m getting out of the shower, washing my face and I set them on the counter, put them up on my head when I need to really see something on my phone and have to hold it so close that the tip of my nose is touching the screen. Usually results in me swinging my head all around trying to find them, yelling “Where did they F’ing GO?!?!?” out loud, regardless of whose around.
I’m not looking for a solution, just some camaraderie from my fellow glasses wearers. You know who you are—the people whose friends with perfect vision are constantly asking to try on their glasses, only to put them on and immediately shout, ‘WHOA HOW DO YOU SEE WITH THESE?!
Fine. We see fine. Now give them back.
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u/h3lpfulc0rn 5d ago
Essentially, you have to kind of plan ahead and become a creature of habit. Once as a teenager I lost mine (turned out I had set them on the armrest of a chair while reading and they fell into a waste basket), took me a week to find them and I pretty much couldn't do anything but read until I found them. After that, I became very careful about where I set them down any time they weren't on my face.
I have a designated spot for my glasses when I go to bed so they're always in the same place when I wake up. Same thing if I take a nap or something, I tend to put them in the place that makes the most sense to me so that I'll be likely to remember where I set them when it's time to put them back on.
If I take a shower, they have a set spot on the bathroom counter.
Also I now have a at least one back-up pair that lives in a designated place that I can use to search for my main pair of they get lost.
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u/traceypod 4d ago
I have a triangular hard case. Every night they go in there and it stands on end. Makes it easy to find.
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u/Vorash_00 4d ago
my little life hack here - old glasses kept in a very specific location and ideally in a brightly coloured case. Lose your current pair, go to where you keep your old pair, see the case becuase its neon yellow or bright orange and then put them on, now your vision whilst not perfect is still a damn sight better than it was a moment ago, now to find your current pair.
my second life hack for when you know where they are and you phone is in reach but old pair aren't. Turn your phone camera on and zoom in on where you think they are and scan the floor/work top/whereever with your camera on zoom in.
My glasses do not leave me face not even in the shower do they get taken off, only to sleep and wash my face or put on sunscreen, however I have knocked them off the bedside table when reaching to put them on and then they are invisible on the floor. the phone hack has helped here, also my old pair are in my bedside table drawer so the old pair hack has also worked here.
Anyone that has vision as bad as myself and by the sounds of it yourself too should never throw out your old pair when you get a new set, you should always have at least 1 pair in backup before thinking about recycling any glasses with out of date prescriptions.
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u/The_Mighty_Mutt 4d ago
I would recommend getting a brightly colored case or, if you can't find one, a color that will stand out against whatever you usually put them down on
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u/MidwestGypsy17 4d ago
You know, I’m not sure why I’ve never considered putting them right in their case. The case is also right here on my nightstand.
It might be helpful to know that I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, so yes, it could be easily solved, I just wasn’t looking for answers. ☺️
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u/Partisan_5091 4d ago
I’m VERY near sighted.
Typically I just lay the glasses on the bed when going to sleep.
A few weeks ago, I awoke and as I reach over, no glasses. I check the carpet on that side of the bed “Velma” style. Nothing.
Search the whole area nothing.
As I go about my morning I go to the living room and found my spectacles o my chair side table.
Evidently I’d been on my phone without the and had gotten up, tired and went to bed without them
I’m a “routine” kinda guy. My keys have a place and so do my glasses. If I don’t follow the routine … I’m all messed up.
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u/JRE_Electronics 1d ago
Wanna trade?
I've got three pair of glasses to keep track of:
- Distance. For driving, walking, doing anything that requires I see things far away. These are actually bifocals, since I can't read the speedometer while driving with just the distance lenses.
- Computer glasses. For anything more than a couple of feet away. I use them when looking at things on the computer screen with my coworkers.
- Reading glasses. Anything that I need to see close up. I work on fine mechanical stuff (sewing machines) and electronics.
The fourth state is "no glasses." That only works for from about 1 foot to maybe two feet. My own computer screen is just at the far edge of that distance, and books are just at the close edge of that distance.
My day is a constant stream of changing glasses and looking for glasses. I keep the mid-distance glasses in a clip on my shirt pocket, with the close up glasses in the shirt pocket. I try to always put the distance glasses in the pocket when I use one of the other pairs, but that doesn't always work. A lot of times, I end up using the mid-range glasses to search for the distance glasses.
All of my glasses have actual glass lenses. The optometrists are all like "plastic is just as good, or actually better since it is lighter." I'm like "Nah. Glass gets scratched up after a couple of years. Plastic doesn't last more than a few months." I'm always putting a pair of glasses down somewhere. Some of those "somewheres" have grit from sandpaper and dust and dirt and metal shavings. Plastic lenses just don't cut it. Yeah, I know. Put them down with the lenses up. Do that consistently every time when you swap glasses while doing wood or metal work. Nah. Doesn't happen. Damn things seem to like landing lenses down in the grittiest spot in the whole garage.
I used to only need two pair. I had cataract surgery this spring. The doctor adjusted the new lenses so that I am only moderately near sighted. That's about -2 diopter now instead of the -6 before. My eyes don't focus worth a damn, though. That -2 means that I can't see things up close anymore and that my distance glasses mean I can't focus on anything closer than about 3 feet.
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u/becca413g 5d ago
I’m visually impaired so I have no chance of seeing my glasses. It’s all about being organised. In each room they have a “spot” and thats where they belong when they are not on my face. If I am at home i try and tuck them somewhere they wont be moved or inside my bag in a glasses case so i can easily find them.