The Back to School Savings
by: Jocelyn Iyog
When my daughter first got glasses about a year and a half ago, I really had no idea how much abuse they would have to take. She got her glasses about a week before rehearsals started on her school’s spring musical. Between learning the big dance numbers and the roughhousing that goes on when you put enough 10-year-olds in a room together, I watched her brand new glasses gradually deteriorate. First a few scratches on one lens, then the other, and then one of the side pieces came apart, and by the end of the school year they were held together by adhesive tape. Replacing them cost $180.She managed to keep the replacement pair intact, but now she’s growing like a weed and they don’t fit so well. I was poking around on the Internet one day and saw an article about Zenni Optical on TV where you could order glasses online for like $8. And I thought, well, that’s $8 for the frames, then they’ll gouge you on the lenses and try to upsell you on a bunch of extras.
Nope.
You can get a complete pair of glasses for $8. There’s another $4.95 shipping, but that’s it. The only thing we didn’t have that we needed for the order was the number for “pupilary distance.” We had a copy of her prescription, but it didn’t have the pupilary distance written on it. But all it took was a call to the optometrist to get the right number. It took just under 2 weeks for them to arrive, and she loved them. In fact, she plans to set aside part of her allowance so she can get another pair before next semester. Anyway, high five to zenni optical. Here’s a picture of the glasses we got her.
And if she breaks them, and I have to make her pay for the next pair herself, she can actually do it without any financial help from her dad and me.
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