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I ordered 47 eyeglass frames from Aliexpress and it cost me less than a single frame. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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I don't like dem changes, it makes me go crazy for some years.

I researched shelf life of the plastic used and I already know the rate which my eye glasses break. So I will be rocking these for the next decade or more.

That's it dear dull men.

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[–] 18 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Did they come with lenses? Because I can't see how that's going to work if not, and if so, how you're predicting your prescription changes.

I pay like $30 for frame and lenses online, but I get a couple of them when I need them.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

    They are reading glasses with standard prescription.

    I buy expensive Kodak lenses that last me MANY years, and My prescription didn't change.

    They do break and I move the lense to a new frame.

    Since 2015 I have been using the same frame. And changed my lense once.

    However, I do take care of my lenses so it won't scratch.

    I mainly started this system because I just don't like change, it would make me go crazy or something. I am a bit cuckoo

    Cuckoo out

    Edit: cuckoo back, i have this soap dispenser that dispenses soap foamy.you fill it with 1 part liquid soap and 2 or 3 part water.

    I use a tissue LIKE A BRUSH to brush away the dust, this way the dust ln the lense won't scratch it. Then use that mild foam soap to wash the lense and then dry it by DABBING tissue on the lense.

    When you failed life and you feel ashamed to spend your sugar daddies money, you find ways to make things last.

    Also, back hurts, not the hole area, the lower spine part. My legs hurt too... is that too much information? Well I think it is

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Some real Bob Mortimer energy here. https://youtu.be/L1JR-9Z5ORE

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I let the spray of the kitchen sink knock the dust off, then dawn power-wash, spray again.

    They dry spot free and you don't get any haze

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (8 children)

    Does dabbing the tissue on the lens not leave water marks behind? What does it look like if you hold the glasses in front of a light bulb after doing that?

    Can you share?

    For the life of me I have not found a way to dry my glasses that leaves them perfectly clean. Idk what it is. And they are pretty much new.

    Right now my method involves:

    • Soapy water in a spray bottle
    • a tiny glasses cloth, that lint-free type
    • mildly warm water

    And I:

    • spray from up close to push debris off
    • rinse
    • spray again, cover the whole lenses
    • spray on the cloth too
    • use cloth on glasses gently, in straight lines up and down, left and right
    • spray again, just a bit
    • rinse in warm water
    • rinse cloth too
    • use a towel to dry only the frame of the glasses
    • squeeze cloth flat in my hand to almost fully dry it then let dry

    After that no matter what I have tried to dry with, left my glasses more dirty than just letting them air dry.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    It looks perfectly clean,under light.

    What I do is after pouring the foamy soup on the glasses I rub it a bit with my hand then rinse it.

    And dabbing with tissue never left those splotches

    I think it might be because of the quality of the lense or you are using too much soap

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

    Well I tried my own steps plus dab to dry at the end, turned out like shit lol

    Then I tried rubbing more soap on, gently, rinsing, then drying with dabs again and it turned out like this 💀

    Though... I did use a glasses cloth to dry, not a tissue. Guess I'll try an actual tissue now.

    Edit

    Tried it, looks like this. I guess a bunch of lint got left behind?

    Also this is how they look with my rinse and let air dry, before they're fully dry.

    So, idk.

    What kind of tissue do you use to dry them? I guess there is some lint-free version I should find.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Holly Fuck! That's fascinating.

    I do like using the premium thick tissues but they do leave a bit of lint but not that much.

    Just to understand, I will repeat it and point it toward light to see, but I am sure it is not that bad, it looks new mine and my lense is ANCIENT, I am lucky with my eye sight not going bad.

    Meanwhile:

    1.Use luke warm water.

    2.I use foamy light soap, if you don't have that, then add a bit of liquid soap on your hand and rub away. I am sure you know how to rub and then rub the lense with your finger GENTLY, and rinse and let it air dry this time.

    I will share a photo with your privately 🫶

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Thanks!

    Yea I do use lukewarm water and I rub really gently only AFTER I spray on and rinse. I always do a contactless wash before any thouching, like you'd wash a car.

    Looking forward to glasses pics lol

    And yea I don't have a foamer but I doubt it makes a difference? Idk. Automotive foam for example, is just placebo, it only looks cool.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Guess who took some sexy photos, you guesses it wrong. Not me! it was my glasses!

    I think the foam is the key, so rub the liquid soap on your hand before applying.

    Why i think it is the key:

    1. makes the process faster.

    2. I put extra water 3:1 with liquid handwash so the foam produced by this pump is light, and easy to rinse.

    I TOOK THREE photos

    1. After I smudged it with my oily hand

    2. After rinse

    3. After dabbing with tissue*

    • there are some scratches that's because I used to use those microfiber stuff, but later I learned that if there is dust and stuff on your and rub it with microfiber it actually scratchers.

    Also, my lense is over 7 years old, some scratches are there, but not deep and not noticeable, that why I buy expensive lenses!

    The cheap one would get deep scratches that would annoy me

    Anyway, send me a message on lemmy, with your Signal ID, or any privacy respecting app orrr whatsap, me no mind

    Edit: The glass look waaay cleaner than yours. Like no smodges

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Haha tiz my Signal username REMOVED

    I think you can find me using that? I'm really looking forward to seeing your glasses nude pics

    I'll try to follow your method more closely, see what comes of it. Also my lenses are cheap at like 30 euro a piece so that may be why they don't clean up as nicely

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I could see it being reading glasses with standard prescriptions.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    People should know OP is a mosquito.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 months ago*

    Frames are the cheap part of glasses anyway, unless you go crazy designer.

    My frames are always like $25, it's lenses than range from $200-$500, and I have a minimal prescription.

    Ah, OP is talking about readers - that's a different model.

    I just buy cheap ones from the dollar store and leave them everywhere as a "just in case".

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This is a great idea. One thing I dislike about new frames lately is the use of silicone parts. Those dissolve in sweat. Otherwise I'd love to buy me 8 pairs.... But 47??? I don't even plan to be alive that long. It be cool if I was though. So maybe I should order 47 pairs.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago

    That's the thing, I buy half frame where the nose pad is part of the frame body.

    I like those because it doesn't leave an itchy red mark on my very sexy gorgeous boogery nose

    And it last long.

    That type of frame has a weak point the nylon string push on the two sides and eventually those corners break.

    Usually takes a year, 2 years, 6 months etc.

    But each frame is about USD 1.63 so who cares.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Silicone does not dissolve in sweat. Salt water fish tanks are held together with silicone.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Exactly my thinking when I purchased my first plastic frames with silicone nose pads and grippy silicone coated/overlayed arms. Within a couple of months those frames were a total piece of junk. I don't know what degrades the silicon. I don't use any chemical products on my hair. So it's just water, bodily oils, and sweat. Maybe the oils?

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What optometrist’s office do you go to that will fit lenses to frames they don’t sell? Used to be the one I went to would fit new lenses to your old frames, but nobody does that anymore because they want to force you to buy new everything.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I spent 5k on new eyeballs so I don't have to worry about glasses frames for the next decade or more. 💅

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Lasik? No thanks. In the 80-90s people were getting radial keratomy and now they have huge rates of blindness. The corneal flap from Lasik never heals for some people.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yep. There are a lot of procedures in place to make sure that doesn't happen though. Age, thickness of the cornea, naturally dry eyes, etc. There's a whole suite of machines and scopes they poke and prod you with before you're even allowed to pay them $5000 to cut open your eyeballs.

    I still regret not waiting a bit longer though. There's a newer version (a new machine really) that uses picosecond wavelength lasers to reshape the cornea without cutting creating a flap at all, so the surgeon only has to make a small slit to pull out the excess from with a special pair of tweezers.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    I had been using the same metal frame full time for the last decade until recently when I got a new one of the same model, that older frame now has tinted lenses in it and ensures that I look cool in all lighting conditions.

    Compared to plastic frames they're also much more repairable.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (5 children)

    They cause itch on my gorgeous nose. And would get these red marks on my nose.

    Also from my experience the silicone nose pad arm usually breaks (maybe I got lower quality)

    Your never broke!?

    And may I see a photo?

    Edit: the reason it caused an itch/mark, I think because metal glasses are heavier and I ha e eczema or something

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Mine indeed never broke, despite me carelessly tossing them around the place. I even wore them to like 20 concerts over the years where they survived my advanced headbanging skills.

    I guess my German nose is just more resilient than yours, ha! /s But I never had the silicone pads brake on me, not even on other, cheaper frames.

    I can't really take a good picture of it due to my inability to take good pictures, but here's one.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    German nose is just more resilient

    Well, I heard Germans are superior.

    And DUUUDE you Made my day dude, with that photo 😃

    Edit: and I can't believe that lasted that long! Wow

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well, I heard Germans are superior.

    Only when it comes to our noses, we pretty much suck on every other front

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I understand your reasoning, but 47 still sounds like a lot but that's just me. Knowing my (old) eyesight do decline regularly, I would not order more than a few at once. But as someone who see little interest in changing for the sake of changing and is deeply allergic to the way glasses are overpriced around here... That's quite smart, I must say.

    I've never used Aliexpress (public confession mode on), may I ask if there is a way to also select the width of the frame? My head may now be bald as a baby's bottom, It's also fairly thick and broad and standard frames won't fit ;)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Me caveman. Me big head.

    1. I searched a lot, order one frame that looked almost identical to the one I had WHICH was purchased in china's whole sale market by a family memeber.

    2. That frame was OHHHHH YEAH BABY. Even better than mine.

    3. Find reputable seller and those who mention material and dimension. There is ways to.measure your face for a glasses, opticians know that. Youtube is your friend.

    But I didn't measure anything the distance between eyes and noss etc. I just compared the dimension of the frame compared to mine.

    There is a way they measure eyeglass frames and if you checked many aliexpress listing you will know what to look for

    Also you could go to fancy websites where you order lens and frames and you could see how they advise you to measure your head and what size frame suites you.

    Oga boga peepeepoopoo poof

    Edit: i didn't buy any lense or prescription lenses, I believe expensive lenses live longer and stay scratch free and doesn't yellow... I prefer clear polycarbonate as heavy glasses caused some mark/itch on my nose.

    Currently I have a kodak lense.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Eye glasses break?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yup, sometimes wear, sometimes impacts, sometimes you are too much of a silly goose

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Or a puppy dog chews a bow off. That's happened a couple of times to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I once had my dog literally poke a hole in a lens with his tooth, by accident. I just had my head close behind and he turned around fast smacking me in the face. The optometrist said it was the first time he saw anything like that. The hole looked like a bullet's but there were no cracks going all the way and the lens stayed intact

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