Ah, what a wonderful consumer society we live in.

That means that I got my cheap online glasses yesterday.  They appear to be completely satisfactory for my simple near-sighted prescription.  And they arrived in less than 2 weeks.

Yes, I had to warp them to my face myself, without the benefit of the years of experience that the optician at my local shop has.  I have the disadvantage of having only worn glasses for the last 40 years or so myself.

I will admit to not being greatly pleased with the clip-on sunglasses that I bought with them.  The clips go over the lenses and they are relatively hard to get on without getting gobby fingerprints on them or on my regular lenses.

And I can see the clips. Distracting.

But since the whole purchase was less than 1/6th the cost of my previous, local shop, pair of glasses, I am amply motivated to simply buy a second pair online which is tinted for sunglasses.

New prescription sunglasses.

My inner pennypincher is asking me whether I calculate the savings from buying two pairs for separate purposes against the single purchase I would have made locally, or do I get to calculate it against the total cost it would have been to buy two pairs even though I would never have done that at the 6x price?