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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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.