If you wear prescription glasses, be sure to have old pairs prepared. I get a new pair every year and have the older pairs in hard cases where I can grab them. Have them in your emergency bag, tape a pair to your emergency food buckets but just be sure you have them where they are easy to grab. They also serve as protective glasses since they are all polycarbonate these days. Places like Americas Best does 2 pairs including exam for $90.
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On Steve Bannon's Warroom RAV @ 4PM CST yesterday there was a man who was talking about the Terrorists in our country and how long they have been here. He said Hezbollah has been inside America for many years and that they are the ones who do not attack sparodically, but work on their attacks over a period of time. He said they have stockpiled weapons and EXPLOSIVES enough to blow up the Empire State Building. He said when they attack, there will be MASS CASUALTIES, because they have our munitions outbeat. All We the People have are guns, so how do we beat that? I'm wishing now I had dug that underground shelter, but that probably wouldn't help either. So PRAY and PRAY and NEVER STOP. God is the Answer. Without him we will not be able to beat anything. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BIBLE IN YOUR EMERGENCY STASH, You will need it. God bless everyone and stay safe.
This is the fourth or fifth prepper post I've seen in 8-12 hours. All good posts, but anyone that has been on this board for a year or longer should know to be ready. I too am hoping for some six-year delts to go down, but I was hoping back on the three-year deltas. We don't know what's coming. Heads up, eyes on and God bless.
This is the only place I go for info and have never once seen anybody discuss glasses. I am not a prepper other than being in a hurricane zone.
Like I said, all good points by all the posts. My statement was more to the timing (six-year deltas), and that if we are not ready now, we wont be :)
Many normies I have met seem to have needed the 6 years to wake up and prepare.
Actually it is worse. I have some very smart friends that think they are prepared, but not. Too tied into the corporate and legal system. Also they send me a tin foil hat for my birthday every year. I send them silver ounces.
They will all be shocked when you show them how tin foil is used as cookware.
Lol, they are all great cooks and smoke masters. The brainwashing has worked on our side very well, unfortunately.
started prepping in 98,we have a saying in my house "J I C " just in case ,you will never have everything you need unless you have unlimited resource's and have been at it for some time but its never to late to put back some things here and there,how do you think our furry little tree rats got their name.
I've been prepping so long we have to eat some of the packaged foods and replenish as some of them are close to expiring. My cellar looks like a general store. FYI- canned tamales are pretty gross if you are used to fresh food, but they will certainly do in an emergency.
Zenni online has great backup glasses. Basic are $12-15 (might be more now, I haven’t bought any in a year or two.) just get your prescription clearly written out, including pupillary distance. Your optometrist must give you this info. Enter the info on Zenni, choose your frames and extras, and they send them in a week or so. I always order a few backups for a new prescription, keep a couple in the cars.
I have bought my prescription glasses from Zenni for 10++++ years now. A pair of progreasive-bifocal poly carbonate lenses with all the coatings, mounted on titanium-like frames, costs less ($80) than the crappy $100 glasses I would get through VSP at my employer.
So I can get a new pair of glasses every year.
IF your optometrist doesn't take that measurement (my kids one claimed they didn't & just let their glasses guy up front take that measurement), Costco will measure that distance for members for free.
They will try to get you to buy glasses there too, though getting that distance is great since they can measure each eye.
Dollar Tree has readers for $1.25 per pair. Instead of buying a pair from the optomistrist for a hundred bucks, go to DT and get 75 pair for the same cost. Yea, they are not the prettiest glasses in the world, but they work. DT also has sun glasses for a buck twenty five.
dont forget tools to maintain them!
Great post. Thanks.
Interesting suggestions.
This is a great idea. Thank you!
Also you can order some pretty cheap pairs on Zenni if you don't get any of the extras & just get the cheapest frames.
I am currently wearing an old pair of glasses. I have a pair of Ray Bans that had Nikon lenses in them. I had a hot shell land behind the lenses and melt a spot on the lenses. While I am waiting for the replacements my old glasses have a different field of view. Anybody who understands parallax knows this makes a huge difference at a quarter mile.