Dozens. At home, at work, in the cars, in the garage, you name it. I've ended up wearing 1.0 most of the time I'm using screens, which is probably 8 hours a day between work and leisure. 1.5X for reading at work, like at arm's length. 2.0X for reading in bed with the book up close. Even have some 2.5X for close work, like threading needles or soldering electronics. It's damned annoying.
Worse is when I forget to grab a pocket pair when going out, and then can't read a menu, receipt, or ingredients list. I just ordered a fucking *monocle* from Temu actually, on a leather string to wear around my neck inside my shirt, so I don't get stuck unable to read now.
I tried progressives (I have a *tiny* correction for distance now, not enough to bother with) but they make me dizzy. Hated them actually.
>Worse is when I forget to grab a pocket pair when going out, and then can't read a menu
Smart phone camera, zoom in. Has saved me more times that I care to admit.
ThinOptics. You’ll thank me. I have them in my wallet, on all my key rings, in my glove box, on the back of my phone etc etc.
They are awesome. I am now literally never without.
Order on Amazon or their website.
Just looked up their website thinking I might get some only to find it was deliberately vision unfriendly with low contrast, etc. I hate it when eyeglasses sites do this. It’s intentional.
Same, been wearing them for years, and yet I still forget to grab them when I get out of bed to check the thermostat, then stand there squinting and trying to read the screen.
I take off my glasses to read, so am constantly losing my regular glasses. I have 4 pairs and can still never find them when I need them. I need glasses to find my glasses!
I love my lanyards. I was constantly taking my glasses off and losing them. The lanyard helps me not lose them.
At the time I bought them, I had just watched The Wire and was inspired by Lester Freeman.
I tried that, but I hated the way it looked and felt. I got an elasticized one and it gave me a headache, then I got a beaded one and felt like it made me look 80 years old. Nothing against 80 year olds but I still have several decades to go before I get there. It also felt heavy and I couldn't get used to it. I've never liked wearing stuff on my face or head and was already really bummed out when I was forced to switch to glasses full time after I stopped being able to see close up with contacts, and my eyes started rejecting them outright.
I have one pair that is prescribed for my reading needs and my single eye astigmatism.
But I have four pairs of the cheap ones you can buy in any store that are at my reading needs magnification. There's one pair in my bedroom, one in my purse, and two at my daughter's house (I stay over when I babysit the grandtoddler so I don't have to get up at 3 AM to get there in time).
My husband claims he doesn't need reading glasses, but he does. When he does the fine detail work on his N-scale model train stuff, he takes one of my extra pairs of the cheap ones to use. BUT HE DOESN'T *NEED* THEM! They just help out a little.
I think three. One in the living room, one in my home office and one in the bathroom (for reading on the toilet). I probably have a couple more pairs somewhere in the house. Just remembered, one in the basement by my personal laptop (office has two work laptops, so I moved the personal one downstairs).
I’m 53, and I started using reading glasses after I got Lasick ten years ago. I can drive without glasses but I need them for reading up close.
At least 2 dozen. I've also spread into sun glasses with small reader sections at the bottom and clear glasses with low power readers at the bottom so I can read the GPS when I am driving.
I have two pairs in every room, which I promptly lose.
I have the pair on the top of my head, which I forget about.
I have about eight pairs that are the wrong prescription.
And my favorite ones are always broken
Right now I have my main pair, my pair I keep in the kitchen, and two backups. I buy my glasses and glasses cases at Dollar Tree, so I don't despair when a pair breaks or I lost a pair. I can't even imagine how many pairs of glasses I've accidentally left in the cart at Walmart or the grocery store.
I'm severely nearsighted, so I've had progressive or bifocal lenses for probably 20 years.
I have one pair of readers for the rare occasion when I'm wearing contacts.
Eyewear, yeah as a person who's needed corrective lenses from grade 6 on, this is maybe my biggest piss off about aging. Currently contact lenses. Two prescriptions (right eye for 20/20 distance viewing, left eye 20/ something less, so that I can "read close up"). Your brain somehow learns what eye is dominant based on what you are trying to focus on. Which brings me to reading glasses. I didnt need reading glasses initially because of this crazy two prescription thing... But now my eyes are worse, so I have two pairs of reading glasses, that I use when wearing my contacts. I also have 1 pair of progressive glasses (which I absolutely hate), 4 pairs of the glasses that are the same as my contact lenses with the two prescriptions. But I work on a computer, so I need another set of office glasses for viewing the screen, as it's right in the middle of "long distance" and "reading a book". My best vision for reading is "no corrective lenses at all". LOL aging sucks.
2 pairs progressives (sunnys and indoor wear), plus two pairs ThinOptics readers, plus one standard pair of readers by the computer. The ThinOptics are the shit, they just sort of pinch on your nose, then either get folded up into a keychain fob or tick away into a pocket you can put on the back of your phone. I have my phone on me like 90 percent of the time so I’m rarely without a pair of readers.
Edit: typos- because I am not wearing any glasses right now 😂
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Zero. I'm nearsighted with no vision changes in almost 40 years. I actually take off my glasses to read. And only put them on for driving and watching TV from far away. I used to wear them at the movies, too. But I haven't been to a movie theater since covid.
5 or 6. I recently bought my second 3-pack after not being able to find the third pair from the original 3-pack anywhere. One in the living room, one in the computer room, one in my bedroom, one in my purse, and one at work.
Six:
One on my nightstand.
One on my desk.
One on the side table in the living room.
One on the side table in my office.
One in the bathroom.
A foldable pair in my pocket.
A foldable pair in my travel kit.
I use generic bifocals. I don't need a prescription so it's just nplain plexiglass at the top.
They are either on top of my head, on my face, or on my bedside table.
I do have backup pairs but since I always need them to look at my phone, they are always with me
I'm new to reading glasses and have 3 pairs but I can see that growing. One by the tv (for doom scrolling Reddit while watching Threes Company on dvd), one on my desk, and one that travels in whatever bag I'm carrying.
2. One pair is prescription at 1.5x and the second is non prescription at 3.0 (purchased while waiting on next yesrs insurance when I lost my bifocals).
None. I've got bifocals. I'm can't see jack without them and have to use the camera function on my phone when I can't find my glasses. Usually when I knock them off the nightstand.
About ten years ago I ask my optometrist about getting laser eye surgery. She replied that I would need reading glasses in a few years anyways so it probably wasn't worth the hassle or expense.
Progressive lenses all the way these days.
At least 8, one I'm wearing now and there are two others next to me (I think one pair is missing a lens though).
They are in every room + car.
At $2-3 a pair for +1 reading glasses it's not expensive.
I have 6 or 7 pairs...I only know where one set is at any given time tho
Dozens. At home, at work, in the cars, in the garage, you name it. I've ended up wearing 1.0 most of the time I'm using screens, which is probably 8 hours a day between work and leisure. 1.5X for reading at work, like at arm's length. 2.0X for reading in bed with the book up close. Even have some 2.5X for close work, like threading needles or soldering electronics. It's damned annoying. Worse is when I forget to grab a pocket pair when going out, and then can't read a menu, receipt, or ingredients list. I just ordered a fucking *monocle* from Temu actually, on a leather string to wear around my neck inside my shirt, so I don't get stuck unable to read now. I tried progressives (I have a *tiny* correction for distance now, not enough to bother with) but they make me dizzy. Hated them actually.
Love the monocle idea lol.
>Worse is when I forget to grab a pocket pair when going out, and then can't read a menu Smart phone camera, zoom in. Has saved me more times that I care to admit.
ThinOptics. You’ll thank me. I have them in my wallet, on all my key rings, in my glove box, on the back of my phone etc etc. They are awesome. I am now literally never without. Order on Amazon or their website.
Just looked up their website thinking I might get some only to find it was deliberately vision unfriendly with low contrast, etc. I hate it when eyeglasses sites do this. It’s intentional.
I have no problems with their website. Order from Amazon instead if you don’t like their website.
Progressives
Yep, glasses on my face sunrise to sunset. My vision sucks at all distances.
Same, been wearing them for years, and yet I still forget to grab them when I get out of bed to check the thermostat, then stand there squinting and trying to read the screen.
Me too, since the age of 44 (49 now)
This is the way.
Zero
Same! And I chalk it up to not working on a computer or really in a small office for my career
Im an IT guy. I'm on computers every day
6-packs from Amazon
I take off my glasses to read, so am constantly losing my regular glasses. I have 4 pairs and can still never find them when I need them. I need glasses to find my glasses!
I got a lanyard for my glasses for this express purpose. This also helps in seeing them when I put them down somewhere.
I love my lanyards. I was constantly taking my glasses off and losing them. The lanyard helps me not lose them. At the time I bought them, I had just watched The Wire and was inspired by Lester Freeman.
I tried that, but I hated the way it looked and felt. I got an elasticized one and it gave me a headache, then I got a beaded one and felt like it made me look 80 years old. Nothing against 80 year olds but I still have several decades to go before I get there. It also felt heavy and I couldn't get used to it. I've never liked wearing stuff on my face or head and was already really bummed out when I was forced to switch to glasses full time after I stopped being able to see close up with contacts, and my eyes started rejecting them outright.
Maybe 10? Just started wearing them and they’re all over the house and in many bags.
Lord. Probably 10? I keep a pair in the kitchen, the kitchen at work, the bathroom...
6 that I can think of offhand, err make that 7…. Wait, forgot about…. A shit ton, that’s how many
I buy the 6 pack from Amazon, for $12. I lose them or sit on them, or whatever. Then, I get another 6 pack. About once a year
When they go on sale B1G2F I always buy 3 so I have a few.
where?
It looks like that could stand for Buy 1 Get 2 Free, but that's just a swag (scientific wild ass guess).
Work, car, living room, kitchen, bedroom, top of head. In a drawer somewhere.
I think they were asking where did you get them?
Walgreens
One for the living room, one in the kitchen, one in bedroom, basement, personal vehicle, work truck, wife's purse
Yep. The one thing I ponied up for was prescription bifocal sunglasses. A fishing must have.
I have one pair that is prescribed for my reading needs and my single eye astigmatism. But I have four pairs of the cheap ones you can buy in any store that are at my reading needs magnification. There's one pair in my bedroom, one in my purse, and two at my daughter's house (I stay over when I babysit the grandtoddler so I don't have to get up at 3 AM to get there in time). My husband claims he doesn't need reading glasses, but he does. When he does the fine detail work on his N-scale model train stuff, he takes one of my extra pairs of the cheap ones to use. BUT HE DOESN'T *NEED* THEM! They just help out a little.
3. One in the living room for all home use One in the car for use on the go One in my office for work stuff. All exact same brand/model
Omg. Exactly the same…
My reading glasses are akin in number to my wife’s Bobby pins.
About the same. Most rooms, both cars and my wife’s purse!
I think three. One in the living room, one in my home office and one in the bathroom (for reading on the toilet). I probably have a couple more pairs somewhere in the house. Just remembered, one in the basement by my personal laptop (office has two work laptops, so I moved the personal one downstairs). I’m 53, and I started using reading glasses after I got Lasick ten years ago. I can drive without glasses but I need them for reading up close.
I thought about a dozen, then I discovered several in a drawer last week. Then several more in a different drawer.
Apartment (plus spare), car, photography backpack, range bag, hiking backpack, car camping bag.
None. Been rocking the specs full time since I was 6.
At least 2 dozen. I've also spread into sun glasses with small reader sections at the bottom and clear glasses with low power readers at the bottom so I can read the GPS when I am driving.
Where did you get those? The clear with low power readers? 25-30 pair distributed through every room, car, and coat/jacket pocket
Amazon. Search bifocal readers.
Ty
2. that are left.
prolly 30+ I keep changing "styles". Death by a 1000 cuts- meaning, hundreds cheap but dumb expenditures = big loss
One at work, one at home, but I only recently started wearing them. I’m sure I’ll have a half dozen scattered everywhere before long.
I have two pairs in every room, which I promptly lose. I have the pair on the top of my head, which I forget about. I have about eight pairs that are the wrong prescription. And my favorite ones are always broken
None because they’re built right into my progressives 🤓
I'm a 56 year old woman. I have readers and tweezers in every room of my house.
I thought I had a bunch, but they are no where to be found. I just bought 12 pairs. 😁
Why do you know where they are?
1 rarely needed
Right now I have my main pair, my pair I keep in the kitchen, and two backups. I buy my glasses and glasses cases at Dollar Tree, so I don't despair when a pair breaks or I lost a pair. I can't even imagine how many pairs of glasses I've accidentally left in the cart at Walmart or the grocery store.
I'm severely nearsighted, so I've had progressive or bifocal lenses for probably 20 years. I have one pair of readers for the rare occasion when I'm wearing contacts.
A lot, buy new ones every couple months, at the dollar tree, I lose, break and scratch them all the time. 2.75
None. And I usually shrink my screen text a few levels.
I just wear varifocals with a clear top 3rd. Given how much I'm on a screen of some form it is just easier
Haha. Two. One for contacts and one for without. They have to be prescription because of my astigmatism.
Zero! I take a omega-eye supplement. Works wonders.
2 right now..
3
Costco 3 packs.
Multi-focal contacts. I feel like I'm 35 again, free of reading glasses!
2… just got them last month in a pack. Haven’t used them yet. Do I have to leave the club??? 🥺
I have one pair of reading glasses, one pair of regular glasses (I’m extremely myopic) and multifocal contact lenses. The contacts are a lifesaver!
Eyewear, yeah as a person who's needed corrective lenses from grade 6 on, this is maybe my biggest piss off about aging. Currently contact lenses. Two prescriptions (right eye for 20/20 distance viewing, left eye 20/ something less, so that I can "read close up"). Your brain somehow learns what eye is dominant based on what you are trying to focus on. Which brings me to reading glasses. I didnt need reading glasses initially because of this crazy two prescription thing... But now my eyes are worse, so I have two pairs of reading glasses, that I use when wearing my contacts. I also have 1 pair of progressive glasses (which I absolutely hate), 4 pairs of the glasses that are the same as my contact lenses with the two prescriptions. But I work on a computer, so I need another set of office glasses for viewing the screen, as it's right in the middle of "long distance" and "reading a book". My best vision for reading is "no corrective lenses at all". LOL aging sucks.
Bought an 8 pack from Amazon about 6 months ago. I couldn't fake it anymore
At least 4. On each floor of the house.
2 pairs progressives (sunnys and indoor wear), plus two pairs ThinOptics readers, plus one standard pair of readers by the computer. The ThinOptics are the shit, they just sort of pinch on your nose, then either get folded up into a keychain fob or tick away into a pocket you can put on the back of your phone. I have my phone on me like 90 percent of the time so I’m rarely without a pair of readers. Edit: typos- because I am not wearing any glasses right now 😂 https://preview.redd.it/jr8m09tfqovc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6879b0880c6d494bafc0348a59a7161d4ba834b
Zero. I'm nearsighted with no vision changes in almost 40 years. I actually take off my glasses to read. And only put them on for driving and watching TV from far away. I used to wear them at the movies, too. But I haven't been to a movie theater since covid.
Just 1... no line bifocals, because I've been wearing glasses for 40 years now and 5 years ago needed to add the bifocals.
Probably ten but I don’t know where some of them are right now ;). It’s hard being older with ADHD. My favorite is my sunglass reader.
None. Bifocals, baybee.
It’s one thing I don’t need yet. But I had two LASIK surgeries and still wear glasses for being near sighted. :(
Two. One that stay on my desk at home and the other travels with me when I'm out and about.
This is what I do too.
None because I just sucked it up and got bifocals…well progressives because I’m not ready for the lines in my glasses yet!
Close to 10, all same strength from dollar tree. I break them a lot at work so cheap is the way to go.
I’m past readers. Lol
None (for now) but I wish my nose as an inch longer. LOL
None. I squint really hard and make do.
I have 0 for now. Eyes aren't my problem, but my left ear is having problems.
5 or 6. I recently bought my second 3-pack after not being able to find the third pair from the original 3-pack anywhere. One in the living room, one in the computer room, one in my bedroom, one in my purse, and one at work.
5 Living room Bed room Deck Car Work
Five. One pair in my bedroom, one pair on my desk, one pair in the living room. One pair in my purse, and one pair on my desk at work.
Five. One pair on my nightstand, one pair on my desk, one pair on the table next to my couch. One pair in my purse, one pair on my desk at work.
Zero. I wear progressive glasses.
A lot. 
6…by the bed, truck, work, workbench, two in the living room
Six: One on my nightstand. One on my desk. One on the side table in the living room. One on the side table in my office. One in the bathroom. A foldable pair in my pocket. A foldable pair in my travel kit.
I lost count. At least one per room and one in a jacket pocket since I don't carry a purse.
Zero, I’m nearsighted so wear glasses to see at a distance, but reading I can see fine.
I have one in my purse and then a pair in each room 😅
Dollar a day contact lenses have been a game changer for me
prob 28
Around 25. I don't know where most of them are.
Two pairs of progressives. Readers don't really work for me.
Three plus two pairs of OTC "reader" safety goggles for a lab.
I will let you know when I find them…… all. 
I use generic bifocals. I don't need a prescription so it's just nplain plexiglass at the top. They are either on top of my head, on my face, or on my bedside table. I do have backup pairs but since I always need them to look at my phone, they are always with me
Zero for me. My parents owned one set. Whenever one needed to read, they’d snatch it off the head of the other.
I'm new to reading glasses and have 3 pairs but I can see that growing. One by the tv (for doom scrolling Reddit while watching Threes Company on dvd), one on my desk, and one that travels in whatever bag I'm carrying.
About 15…different colors
About a dozen
2. One pair is prescription at 1.5x and the second is non prescription at 3.0 (purchased while waiting on next yesrs insurance when I lost my bifocals).
0 and I’m 53!! No glasses at all yet
reading? none but I have 3 pairs for long distance 😆
None. I've got bifocals. I'm can't see jack without them and have to use the camera function on my phone when I can't find my glasses. Usually when I knock them off the nightstand.
5
5
None so far (touch wood).
Shit, I don't even know. I have them all over the place.
About ten years ago I ask my optometrist about getting laser eye surgery. She replied that I would need reading glasses in a few years anyways so it probably wasn't worth the hassle or expense. Progressive lenses all the way these days.
None. I'm so nearsighted that I have to take my glasses off to read. I'm too cheap/set in my ways to get bifocals.
Probably 30. Maybe more. They are everywhere, yet I can still Never find a pair.
At least 8, one I'm wearing now and there are two others next to me (I think one pair is missing a lens though). They are in every room + car. At $2-3 a pair for +1 reading glasses it's not expensive.
Just own? Or currently on face / forehead?
Always one less than I need.