Monday, February 28, 2011

Ordering Prescription Eyeglasses Online-Zenni Optical

Most people have never thought of ordering their prescription eyeglasses online. I didn't think you even could, but while I was living in rural Virginia where nothing was easy to get to, and the thought of picking out overpriced eyeglasses frames at the one optometrist's office seemed too much for me to bear, I started poking around the internet to see if I could get glasses online. You can get everything else, why not eyeglasses? It took up quite a lot of time to find a site that looked professional and that had many frames to choose from. The site I found is called Zenni Optical. The website is very easy to navigate and there were hundreds of eyeglass frames to look at. So many, in fact, that it is quite time consuming to go through all your options in order to find the just the right ones. I have ordered glasses from Zenni Optical,www.zennioptical.com on three different occasions. I ended up ordering some three years ago, and that pair of glasses happens to be one of my all-time favorite pairs. They were cute, corrected my vision well, and the best thing of all is that they were only $12.95! That's right, and that was including the shipping. Since that pair of glasses, I have recently ordered a pair of glasses for two of my daughters. Both of them are very pleased with my purchase and if anything happens to the glasses, it's not like I spent $300.00 on them! I spend $15.95 and $14.90 on them. Zenni Optical offers a wide variety of frames that can accommodate bifocal prescriptions as well. You can choose from regular or progressive lenses (progressives will be an additional $4.95) The shipping was only around $4.95 as well. The prices I listed above were the TOTAL including the shipping. Zenni Optical has really been good for me. All six of us wear glasses/contacts. For those of us in the family who wear contacts, we only really need our glasses as a backup or for only occasional wear, so it really makes more economical sense to purchase inexpensive glasses. For my one kiddo, and husband who wear their glasses full time, I am confident that the glasses are of good quality and wearable full-time. One word of caution though, since you are ordering online, you cannot really try them on your face, so you need to have a metric ruler on hand to measure and compare frames to find one that fits your face. There is a "tryon" tool you can use to try the glasses on an uploaded picture of yourself, if that is what you want to do. If the glasses need to be adjusted, I am sure you can run them into a Walmart or some other optical place to have them fitted to your face. All in all, I would highly recommend Zenni Optical if you are looking to save some money on your prescription eyeglasses, or if you just want to buy funky or unusual frames. It is fun to see what they have to offer.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Strange, Strange Things Are Happening

I haven't posted in awhile because I am working on a review of two companies that sell prescription eyeglasses--Zenni Optical and Firmoo. It is taking awhile to gather my information and do my writing, so in the meantime I just wanted to post some of the strange things that are taking place in my world these days. First of all, I am having a sock crisis in my home. None of us has the proper matching socks. The other day I saw my youngest daughter walking around in her sock feet and upon looking closer, I discovered that not only was she wearing mismatched socks, one of them was a knee sock and the other was an anklet. Whaaat? I asked her why and she said she couldn't find a mate to either one so just wore them together. Then when I looked at my other girls' feet, the all also were wearing mismatched socks. I have to admit that I am the one who does most of the laundry around here and there are almost always unmatched socks (my husband's and mine included) at the bottom of the clothes basket. Why is this happening? I can't figure it out. Is the dryer doing something sinister with them? Are the dogs hiding them? I will have to start investigating this soon before all our socks disappear!

The other weird thing going on is the disappearance of the o.b. brand of tampons. Not actually at my house because I haven't had much trouble finding them in our area stores, but apparently in other parts of the country, the applicator-less tampon (which I prefer) has gone missing. There is some sort of conspiracy theory and swirling accusations about the reason this little box of unmentionables has disappeared from  store shelves. There is even talk of black market sales of these things. I checked on ebay yesterday and saw that a bundle of three boxes were at a bid of $94.00. I'm thinking maybe I should buy what I can find here and sell them at a hefty profit! Anyway, I am going to do some more investigating on this phenomenon as well. It will be my Sock and Tampon Project. Until then. . . .