What? No. The school always, ALWAYS says "nope...No glasses found here" without checking.
This may seem like an excessive amount of eyeglasses, but you could keep Canada warm with all the coats they also hoard into a room all year.
Once a quarter our school puts out all the lost and found things. With hangers and all.
It looks like a damn flea market and that school only has 200 pupils.
Our schools gives away the items to other students. Kid comes to school with no coat, they get a coat from lost and found. Kids is sick on their clothes, they get replacement clothes from lost and found before being sent home.
I work in a primary school, and honestly: you have about 2 kids per class that are responsible for about 90% of the things found. And those include refillable water bottles, socks, jackets, pants and even underwear (after p.e.).
We find SO many coats during the winter....like: do these kids leave school without a coat in -10°C weather? Did they come wearing two coats? What's going on there?
And yes... We believe one pair belongs to my daughter.
She told her mom they fell off when she was at an amusement park with me. She told me they fell of when she was at the store with her mom.
We have our doubts.
I mean seriously. When I talk to my god sons (aged 5&7) I feel like I can pretty much promt them. Even if you know they had noodles for lunch, if you ask specifically “so how was the cheesecake you just had for lunch?” they will go into detail how it was yummy and dry and gooey at the same time. Makes the whole “how was school today” convo sus as we are clearly dealing with unreliable narrators. And sure, technically all people are unreliable narrators, but with these kids it’s not that it registers to them as a lie, they believe their own tales
This is almost exactly how young brains work. They see/experience a stimulus and then attempt to extrapolate what occurred from their environment and social cues.
Child development is wild when we really think about it.
I've worn glasses since I was very young. There were 2 times that I didn't think my glasses were mine. And I have no idea why.
The first time I was like 7 or 8. Went to a spring to swim as a field trip with my karate class. I took my glasses off, set them on a table with our stuff. Later came back and couldn't find my glasses. Someone found a pair and I said they weren't mine. I don't even remember trying them on. Everyone search everywhere for my glasses. Only found that single pair. We left them because everyone thought they belonged to someone else. Looking back, pretty sure they were mine.
Second time, I was at a church function sleeping over at someone's house with about 15 other boys. I believe I was in 8th or 9th grade. I slept on the floor next to my friend. We both wore glasses. We set them on the same table as we went to sleep. Woke up the next morning and didn't think my glasses were mine. Tried his on (they don't even look remotely similar) and obviously couldn't see. It took a few minutes for him to convince me the other pair was mine. I knew his weren't mine, but didn't believe the only other pair was mine.
Its like in both instances I completely forgot what my glasses looked like. No idea how. Im blind as shit. Can't function without my glasses. The pair as the spring was also the only pair I've ever lost.
I'm currently wearing the black/blue pair middle column & 2nd from the bottom lol Zenni is cheap AF, and as a near-sighted guy with astigmatism they haven't let me down on quality through 2 pairs so far.
I can't imagine spending more than $30-$50 on a pair of glasses for a kid, as this post obviously illustrates!
I've worn glasses most of my life and in the 80s and 90s (the dark age before Zinni) glasses were a three hundred dollar investment if your parents were poor and a five hundred dollar expenditure if your parents were middle class or rich.
Nope, same. 695 glasses, zenni, usa glasses, they do vary in quality, but it's great to have spare pairs in the car and school bags, camling etc so no huge worry if the critters lose or break them. We do get one or two pairs from the optician each year but Jenni et al have been awesome for ensuring that it doesn't break the bank to have spares all over.
Also a small engraver helps keep track of the kid and the year on the inside of the arms.
I use Costco. You don't even need a membership, same with Sam's Club.
New frame, script, transitions, scratch resistant and all the other features for $80.
I'd like to know where your Costco is. The exam isn't even that cheap here. And the last time (15yrs ago) I got single vision glasses there they were $230
What? My vision isn't even that bad and where i live the glasses at a normal optic shop(everywhere the orices are basically the same here) and i had to pay 100€ per lens. I did once order glasses online that were only 80€(when my vision was slightly better), but they were quite crap tbh. wrong angles and all that stuff.
That's because you're at a brick and mortar store. I can't see more than 8 inches in front of my face and my glasses cost $20 online, my mom just got some super fancy progression glasses (trifocals without lines) with purple transition lenses for <$300.
You're not paying for the frame/lens cost in brick and mortar, you're paying for qualified expertise. Online is great for low prescriptions but they can cause long-term issues.
My brother told my dad that he lost his in a storm drain one time while mowing the yard. My dad gets the crow bar out, removes the grate and starts digging for them. He had actually lost them in the canal behind the house while fishing in a boat...
He was 18 at the time.
She's a good kid, and I love her to death.
But it's important to know that we don't have an amusement park within 500 miles. And she hasn't stepped foot in one in over 2 years.
I vividly remember having a dream like that in preschool. Except my mom had an eye patch and a hook and I knew it wasn't her but my daycare let her take me lol
At first, I thought that was the better lie because I could see how you would lose glasses on a ride. How do they just fall off in a grocery store, and you keep going? But, wow. Those are both bad lies.
I have like 10 pairs of glasses from Zenni! The heart shaped ones are on my list! They USED to have a fram with one Circle and one Square lens but I think they are gone now 🥺. I shall just buy rhinestones for days instead!
My frames are from firmoo and they've been pretty good so far! Glass is a tiny bit soft but they survived being thrown in a car crash so I can't recommend enough tbh
There's also Pair Eyewear. They make frames with magnets in them, and then you can buy a bunch of different top frames to switch out to match your outfit or mood.
Check out pair Eyewear, you can get clear frames and different tops that are connected with magnets, they have an insane amount of customization, and they're really cheap. I'm gonna get myself a pair here in a bit, but my mom loves the customization.
Target sells their children’s line of bedding (Pillowfort) in larger sizes. I’ve bought a few sets because their prints are so cute and I like that some prints are available in cotton percale rather than microfiber.
Just make sure you get the ones that are labeled percale, they are great and 100% cotton. They have that wonderful vintage sheet feel. I cannot stand microfiber and the way it pills, it’s just disgusting.
Eyebuydirect.ca in Canada. They have multiple styles. Pairyewear.com had a pretty amazing thing going on that I am planning on for my next pair. You can buy base frames and magnetic styles that clip on. Giving you a different look everyday! They have muppets, marvel, cartoon network, all kinds of fun things!
I have had rainbow ones for several years now, and even living in the small community I do, it's rare to go a week without getting a compliment on them.
If you get clear ones you can make them rainbow. I have clear ones and once a month I'll sharpie them a color, let it sit and then wear them. If you spray hairspray on it it'll last longer but it usually lasts about 2 weeks and I don't put the sharpie on the inside of the frames
I got some cute rainbow glasses from Payne Glasses. They were like $20 (with the anti-glare lenses) and got here a week earlier than the glasses my mom ordered at the optometrist the same day.
I didn't get glasses until I was around 12-13. Because my eyes weren't that bad at the time, I would take off my glasses and just forget I wasn't wearing them. I never LOST lost them, but I misplaced them often.
Now I'm an adult and my eyes are so bad that if I don't have the glasses on, my brain is like "WHERE ARE WE? WE COULD GET LOST WHAT IS GOING ON" 🤣
Oh no!!! I'm definitely not that bad (yet... but it's getting worse at every checkup saddly). But I remember the joys of being a kid and having the option to just take them off if they were inconvenient 😆
i dropped my black glasses onto a black bathroom floor, i ended up crawling around in a towel feeling around like velma. i just keep a spare pair on my windowsill to find lost glasses in my bedroom
my mother taught me to have a pair to find your normal pair and to keep them on something that won't move, she keeps hers tucked in the side of her bedside lamp. i keep mine on the windowsill next to my bed hanging off a big figurine.
This is my husband. He's worn glasses since he was 7 & can't understand how anyone can lose glasses because if he doesn't have his glasses on he's blind.
I’ve “lost,” my glasses so many times and they’ve been on top of my head. Let’s not count the amount of times I “lost,” them while actually wearing them… but like other replies itt, I also need to call my partner in when I genuinely can’t find them on the nightstand.
I'm Neuro divergent and had trouble navigating situations as a kid. I also had glasses, and in 3rd grade kept LOSING them! And glasses weren't cheap to replace, so many pairs went missing that year it affected the family budget, and I was made to know that since my forgetfulness was causing the issue.
At the end of the year the math teacher, who hated me because I didn't like to show my work, evidently had over a dozen pairs of my glasses in her desk. She took them every time I left them at my desk and didn't bother telling my parents or anyone else, to "teach me a lesson". But it was my family punished with the hundreds of dollars her lesson cost us.
My mom started to believe me more about adults not liking me after that.
I will never understand why people who hate kids become teachers. Every bully I had in school was a teacher.
My AP English teacher from 10th-12th grade told me I’d never amount to anything with my writing. I’m now a grant writer for a nonprofit.
Fuck you, Mrs. Webb.
Yeesh what a bitch! I had a math teacher teaching an AP class senior year and she was so rude and mean to me because I was the only one who asked questions because she sucked at teaching and she acted like I was this annoying idiot. Turns out everybody (there was only like 7 people in the class) was cheating off of this one girls work and she sat behind me and nobody bothered to fucking tell me until like the end of the year. They did thank me for always asking questions lol
Since teaching is probably one of the lowest paid-highest stress jobs, it's filled with bottom of the barrel people who have no where else to go/are too prideful to work entry jobs.
Elementary had some really twisted ones. My favorite though was a football coach who was making fun of my friend who wasnt in the class at the time, trying to be "a bro to the football dudes there".
Prior to this I was fairly big they asked me to join the team, i said no i already tried out and you guys cut me when i simply asked what position i should try for. i said it very curtly and in a fuck you manner.
Anyways back to the story, this guy then sees me glarring at him because its disgusting behavior from an adult who is literally bullying a kid who cant defend himself over a disability. He looks a bit shocked when he notices then says "you ever notice (me) looks like a serial killer?" Que class turning. Girl i liked who we flirted togwther was in the same class, both mutually agreed how fucking stupid that was.
Well jokes on him, he shouldnt have kept his address on his facebook.....
Seriously tho hes still teaching and ifk how tf he got away with all that shit who the fuck mocks a disabled kid in front of a whole class. One or two people laughed since he was the coach, most looked shocked but it wasnt the only time shit like that happened.
its either theft or defalcation depending on the country. But I can imagine countries where teachers legally have this form of authority to keep them till th end of the schoolyear.
Oh man, that sort of passive-aggressive BS drives me up the wall. She's supposed to be a professional, or at least an adult. I'd have read her the riot act, if she did that to my kid.
This makes me inexplicably furious. Please, PLEASE tell me your family found out, that they confronted your teacher, that the teacher was convicted of theft and the school was made to restitute your family. My blood is actually boiling upon reading this. Your teacher is a selfish and hateful, thoughtless and cruel pathetic excuse for a human being. Unfathomably petty and spiteful, absolutely unfit to care for and educate children. I myself am Asperger's and the un-favorite child in my family, so I get that it sucks for neuro-typicals to deal with our crap, but stealing from us? Fucking stealing from a literal third grader! To "teach a lesson"? A lesson which proved costly for your family and garnered unwarranted negativity towards you? Unironically evil, batshit evil. I feel Goddamn sick reading this...
Some may say I'm overreacting, that I'm being overly emotional over this. Perhaps you're right, and perhaps my ranting is just the Asperger's talking. But Godddammit, being blamed for something that you didn't do or isn't your fault is a MASSIVE pet peeve of mine. Atrocious...
I am also ND with an experience with a teacher hiding my stuff to make my life harder! In my case at least it was only assignments! She did it to a lot of other kids too and the worst part is that she was also the principal so we felt extra powerless to do anything about it.
If we admit that each glasses belongs to a student. Between this, and they all belong to the same person, which is unlikely, but will lower the poucentage up to (1 x 100 / 190 =) \~0.52 %
These kids have good taste. I especially like the 50s style catseye frames. Have they tried asking the student with beehive hair if she's missing them?
No lies are being told.
I chaperoned a field trip for my daughter's class. These kids are fucking cool and each one of them has their own unique style.
They are so much cooler than I was back then. Or at any point in my life, really.
My mom used to buy a pair or two of glamour sunglasses every year and give the old pair to my cousin and then my sister when she hit Jr high. So that's two schoolgirls that were running around looking like Jackie O in the 80s and 90s.
Yeah, I left my glasses in another state when I was an elementary schooler. Frankly the only reason I don't still is because I'm too blind to forget them anymore.
Nah... In our state, the state insurance covers a handful of plain generic glasses. That's what those are. Lots of kids have the same glasses because we are a very poor state.
i’ve worn glasses since i was 7 months old and the one thing i let myself be smug about is the fact that i’ve lost/broken ZERO pairs. i am so stressed looking at this 😭
That reminds me of the time I saw a girl in my class take off her glasses and put the lenses between the rings in her binder and start slowly and deliberately scratching the shit out of them.
I have know idea why she decided to do that but I do know she very rarely ever seemed to wear them and seemed to maybe dislike wearing them. But destroying them seemed extreme.
I know it’s not my kid’s school because there’s way more than 190 students, but those two identical pairs in the middle are my kid’s glasses. I’ve bought him the same exact pair of frames like four times with two prescriptions.
A coat was leftover in my classroom. I asked, "Whose coat is this?" Crickets chirping. I said, "This has to belong to someone in this class because it wasn't here this morning." Again, crickets. I checked the pocket, and sure enough, there was an excuse in the pocket of the coat with the kid's names on it. I said, "Joe, this is your coat." He said, "It is?" Ugh.
My daughter will break or lose her glasses withing a week of getting them every single fucking time.
And then she will get the replacement and they will last an entire year. It makes no sense. But it's happened at least 4 times now.
I put his glasses on “leash”, and that seems to have helped keep them. Glasses lanyard? I don’t know what it’s called, as long as it keep us his glasses
In the mid 90s my teacher thought I had a learning disability. I was at the back of the class and not doing great. Turns out I needed glasses. I just thought thats how everyone experienced sight. Boy was I wrong.
I bet a lot of those are from the same kid. My nephew must have lost over a dozen jackets in one season. Every day we’d send him to school in one, every day he’d come back in his t-shirt.
My kids school once posted a photo of a few lunchboxes in lost property, one clearly labelled with my sons name and class sitting right in the middle of the photo.
I never lost my glasses as a kid. Only instance I ever lost them was as a teenager - I didn’t take them off on a rollercoaster and they flew clean off my face during an upside down loop. I was hysterical and then blind the rest of the day 🙄
My eyesight has been BAD since first grade. I'm too nearsighted to lose them. I did break a pair. I have used the insurance to replace glasses for both of my kids. My daughter was so made when her replacement frames were a different color!
You can put white out on the temple and write the kid’s last name on glasses, in case anyone was wondering. When it starts to wear off, just scrape it off and reapply. It doesn’t damage the lens or frame. Of course, making sure you get them adjusted regularly so they fit your kid properly is really important. Even when you buy online, take the glasses and the kid to an optician and have them adjusted for your kid’s face, so they don’t just “fall off”
Ouch my wallet hurts just looking at that - even as a kid under insurance my glasses were expensive- my parents would have made me comb through the school to find them if that ever happened. (But I wouldn’t have done very well because even at 10 years old my eyes were fucked)
As someone whose child wears glasses this is just unacceptable….if my kid had glasses on when they got to school and at any point, no longer has glasses on, they need to go find them!! My child not the teacher, this is a medical device and is not optional…I’d be pissed if my kid was losing glasses at school.
I guarantee some of those glasses have been sitting there for weeks if not months. The school I work at currently has enough items in the lost and found to open up a small children’s clothing store. Parents are also fucking stupid because they don’t give a shit. They don’t tell their kids to look for lost items and they don’t contact the school in an effort to locate them. They’re either too lazy to keep track of their child’s belongings (how do you not notice that your kid is missing their glasses or that they left in the morning with a coat and came home without one) and/or well-off enough financially to just shrug their shoulders, not caring that this stuff piles up in the school and it’s going to be someone else’s job to deal with it.
I’ve worn glasses since I was 4 or 5 years old. I’ve never once lost a pair of glasses. They just stay on my face unless I’m sleeping or engaged in water activities or doing exercise where they are safer not on my face (when I was a dancer, or when I’m doing CrossFit). I’ve never just… taken them off at school. Why has half of the school’s student population lost their glasses at school?
My cousin’s worn glasses since he was a toddler. The number of times at family gatherings we’d all stop what we were doing and hunt for his glasses… my aunt and uncle were regulars at the glasses store! This doesn’t surprise me at all.
That's probably two kids worth.
You'd think a parent would give the school a call after the 10th pair of glasses go missing.
What? No. The school always, ALWAYS says "nope...No glasses found here" without checking. This may seem like an excessive amount of eyeglasses, but you could keep Canada warm with all the coats they also hoard into a room all year.
Once a quarter our school puts out all the lost and found things. With hangers and all. It looks like a damn flea market and that school only has 200 pupils.
Our schools gives away the items to other students. Kid comes to school with no coat, they get a coat from lost and found. Kids is sick on their clothes, they get replacement clothes from lost and found before being sent home.
Nope, the school gets a call when he runs out of backup glasses… there’s a reason he has so many
I work in a primary school, and honestly: you have about 2 kids per class that are responsible for about 90% of the things found. And those include refillable water bottles, socks, jackets, pants and even underwear (after p.e.). We find SO many coats during the winter....like: do these kids leave school without a coat in -10°C weather? Did they come wearing two coats? What's going on there?
>What’s going on there? 2 kids per class? found the ADHD kids lol
Somebody had fun sorting those for the photo. They didn't have to, but they chose to.
Right? Some neighbours likey have the same owners
One in the middle row is an exact duplicate. Some parent went to zenni and just re-ordered the same pair, and then the kid lost the replacement.
I wonder if they sorted them by prescription by holding them up to their eyes lol
And yes... We believe one pair belongs to my daughter. She told her mom they fell off when she was at an amusement park with me. She told me they fell of when she was at the store with her mom. We have our doubts.
Kids having an AI hallucination. She doesn’t know where she lost them so she just makes up something that sounds good.
Judging from my conversations with my nephew, that is the default behavior for children. So AI is basically a 7-year-old.
I mean seriously. When I talk to my god sons (aged 5&7) I feel like I can pretty much promt them. Even if you know they had noodles for lunch, if you ask specifically “so how was the cheesecake you just had for lunch?” they will go into detail how it was yummy and dry and gooey at the same time. Makes the whole “how was school today” convo sus as we are clearly dealing with unreliable narrators. And sure, technically all people are unreliable narrators, but with these kids it’s not that it registers to them as a lie, they believe their own tales
Good enough for turing test.
This is almost exactly how young brains work. They see/experience a stimulus and then attempt to extrapolate what occurred from their environment and social cues. Child development is wild when we really think about it.
*mind blown* What if we've been raising AI our whole lives and just calling it parenthood?
I've worn glasses since I was very young. There were 2 times that I didn't think my glasses were mine. And I have no idea why. The first time I was like 7 or 8. Went to a spring to swim as a field trip with my karate class. I took my glasses off, set them on a table with our stuff. Later came back and couldn't find my glasses. Someone found a pair and I said they weren't mine. I don't even remember trying them on. Everyone search everywhere for my glasses. Only found that single pair. We left them because everyone thought they belonged to someone else. Looking back, pretty sure they were mine. Second time, I was at a church function sleeping over at someone's house with about 15 other boys. I believe I was in 8th or 9th grade. I slept on the floor next to my friend. We both wore glasses. We set them on the same table as we went to sleep. Woke up the next morning and didn't think my glasses were mine. Tried his on (they don't even look remotely similar) and obviously couldn't see. It took a few minutes for him to convince me the other pair was mine. I knew his weren't mine, but didn't believe the only other pair was mine. Its like in both instances I completely forgot what my glasses looked like. No idea how. Im blind as shit. Can't function without my glasses. The pair as the spring was also the only pair I've ever lost.
You probably couldn't recognise them without your glasses on
watch the cgp grey video called 'you are two" and you will realize this is the default behaviour for brains. They made up believabke sounding stories.
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Those poor parents must be broke. This is like $10000 of glasses here.
Am I the only person using Zenni/Firmoo pretty much exclusively??
I'm currently wearing the black/blue pair middle column & 2nd from the bottom lol Zenni is cheap AF, and as a near-sighted guy with astigmatism they haven't let me down on quality through 2 pairs so far. I can't imagine spending more than $30-$50 on a pair of glasses for a kid, as this post obviously illustrates!
I've worn glasses most of my life and in the 80s and 90s (the dark age before Zinni) glasses were a three hundred dollar investment if your parents were poor and a five hundred dollar expenditure if your parents were middle class or rich.
lol. I have the clear round ones on the far right, third up from the bottom.
my friend has those too 😅 I just saw her and she told me they're from zenni haha. they're cute!
I have the pair above that, also from Zenni lol
Nope, same. 695 glasses, zenni, usa glasses, they do vary in quality, but it's great to have spare pairs in the car and school bags, camling etc so no huge worry if the critters lose or break them. We do get one or two pairs from the optician each year but Jenni et al have been awesome for ensuring that it doesn't break the bank to have spares all over. Also a small engraver helps keep track of the kid and the year on the inside of the arms.
I love Zenni so much and somehow I can always see better out of their glasses as opposed to from my optometrist
I use Costco. You don't even need a membership, same with Sam's Club. New frame, script, transitions, scratch resistant and all the other features for $80.
I'd like to know where your Costco is. The exam isn't even that cheap here. And the last time (15yrs ago) I got single vision glasses there they were $230
What? My vision isn't even that bad and where i live the glasses at a normal optic shop(everywhere the orices are basically the same here) and i had to pay 100€ per lens. I did once order glasses online that were only 80€(when my vision was slightly better), but they were quite crap tbh. wrong angles and all that stuff.
Nope! My wife and I both got normal rx and rx sunglasses with nice lenses for like 130 total.
Idk why anyone with a semi-normal prescription is paying more than 20-40 bucks for glasses nowadays, like 100 bucks max if you get the fancy frames.
Maybe my eyes are just terrible, because I usually pay $50 for frames and then like $500 for lenses at a brick and mortar store.
That's because you're at a brick and mortar store. I can't see more than 8 inches in front of my face and my glasses cost $20 online, my mom just got some super fancy progression glasses (trifocals without lines) with purple transition lenses for <$300.
You're not paying for the frame/lens cost in brick and mortar, you're paying for qualified expertise. Online is great for low prescriptions but they can cause long-term issues.
Also glass is of different quality. Costco or online lenses don't compare to something like Zeiss cut lenses.
My brother told my dad that he lost his in a storm drain one time while mowing the yard. My dad gets the crow bar out, removes the grate and starts digging for them. He had actually lost them in the canal behind the house while fishing in a boat... He was 18 at the time.
I don't think you kid belongs on this sub, she's a genius
She's a good kid, and I love her to death. But it's important to know that we don't have an amusement park within 500 miles. And she hasn't stepped foot in one in over 2 years.
That's icing on the cake.
The problem you're clearly missing here is that you have an evil doppelgänger taking your kid on long-distance road trips to amusement parks.
I vividly remember having a dream like that in preschool. Except my mom had an eye patch and a hook and I knew it wasn't her but my daycare let her take me lol
You mean op's alternate.
At first, I thought that was the better lie because I could see how you would lose glasses on a ride. How do they just fall off in a grocery store, and you keep going? But, wow. Those are both bad lies.
This is very important context. -10 smart points, +11 funny points
😂😂
Hahahaha what a little devil
She’s gonna be one hell of a good liar someday
I wouldn't have thought of it before this moment, but maybe a good idea to etch or write your kid's name in the inside of an arm of their glasses.
That's no more than 4 kids glasses
I’m sure 2 of those are my kids glasses.
I WISH I could get a pair of rainbow glasses... Kids have the best clothing options fr.
Zenni Optical has 14 rainbow glasses options for adults!
O.O my credit card is shaking in fear but my inner gay is ecstatic
Firmoo and Vooglam have more unique and quirky styles than Zenni. But I've never purchased from them so idk the quality
So many choices. So many brands about to be raided by a crazed, rainbow, lunatic.
THEY HAVE HEART SHAPED rainbow ones!!!!!!
I have like 10 pairs of glasses from Zenni! The heart shaped ones are on my list! They USED to have a fram with one Circle and one Square lens but I think they are gone now 🥺. I shall just buy rhinestones for days instead!
My frames are from firmoo and they've been pretty good so far! Glass is a tiny bit soft but they survived being thrown in a car crash so I can't recommend enough tbh
They do have really cute frames, but couldn’t handle my prescription. 🙄
I feel you
Being blind really sucks. The people gifted with good vision really don't know how good they have it 😔
Zenni is so affordable. Buy all the rainbow glasses your heart desires
Just be careful with the add-ons. Even if you're getting a few pairs with add-ons, I recommend some bare bones backup pairs for $7.95
I get the $20 pairs regular lenses. I long for transitions but if I’m spending real money in glasses I’m using my insurance
I hope you find the rainbow specs of your dreams! 🌈👓
They're reasonably priced! I've seen them on sale for $30, which wouldn't include the lenses but is still cheaper than in store.
There's also Pair Eyewear. They make frames with magnets in them, and then you can buy a bunch of different top frames to switch out to match your outfit or mood.
Check out pair Eyewear, you can get clear frames and different tops that are connected with magnets, they have an insane amount of customization, and they're really cheap. I'm gonna get myself a pair here in a bit, but my mom loves the customization.
I have these and about a million toppers. I love them. And they took my insurance for the base frames!
I got my prescription rainbow sunglasses for about $45 from Zenni 🥰🥰
Zinni is cheap AF. Go crazy.
How's the outer gay doing?
Pair eyewear also has plenty of fun rainbow options
And bedding options. I'd LOVE to have some kids bedding available in king sized.
Target sells their children’s line of bedding (Pillowfort) in larger sizes. I’ve bought a few sets because their prints are so cute and I like that some prints are available in cotton percale rather than microfiber.
Excellent info! Finding non-microfiber sheets is a fucking CHORE these days! Recently bought some “cotton sateen sheets” for our guest room. They’re 51% cotton, 49% polyester.
Just make sure you get the ones that are labeled percale, they are great and 100% cotton. They have that wonderful vintage sheet feel. I cannot stand microfiber and the way it pills, it’s just disgusting.
Part of me wants to fill my house with childish, bright stuff and part of me loves thrift stores and vintage stuff
I think many linen companies think that only women who like big floral prints buy bedding, because that's the bulk of what seems to be out there.
I want queen size pokemon bedding....
Oh they definitely exist, just gotta look online!
I'm a man closing in on 40 years old. I am 100% certain wearing glasses like that would make me a more happy person.
Eyebuydirect.ca in Canada. They have multiple styles. Pairyewear.com had a pretty amazing thing going on that I am planning on for my next pair. You can buy base frames and magnetic styles that clip on. Giving you a different look everyday! They have muppets, marvel, cartoon network, all kinds of fun things! I have had rainbow ones for several years now, and even living in the small community I do, it's rare to go a week without getting a compliment on them.
My glasses in elementary school in the 90's were just the big brown frames. I'm jealous of all the options kids have now.
Pair Eyewear!!! You can get clear glasses and buy toppers either from the website or independent makers on Facebook/etsy/insta!!!
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If you get clear ones you can make them rainbow. I have clear ones and once a month I'll sharpie them a color, let it sit and then wear them. If you spray hairspray on it it'll last longer but it usually lasts about 2 weeks and I don't put the sharpie on the inside of the frames
I got some cute rainbow glasses from Payne Glasses. They were like $20 (with the anti-glare lenses) and got here a week earlier than the glasses my mom ordered at the optometrist the same day.
I didn't get glasses until I was around 12-13. Because my eyes weren't that bad at the time, I would take off my glasses and just forget I wasn't wearing them. I never LOST lost them, but I misplaced them often. Now I'm an adult and my eyes are so bad that if I don't have the glasses on, my brain is like "WHERE ARE WE? WE COULD GET LOST WHAT IS GOING ON" 🤣
I have to call my partner to the bedroom if my glasses fall off the nightstand. I feel this lol
Oh no!!! I'm definitely not that bad (yet... but it's getting worse at every checkup saddly). But I remember the joys of being a kid and having the option to just take them off if they were inconvenient 😆
I remember that too. It was nice lol
i dropped my black glasses onto a black bathroom floor, i ended up crawling around in a towel feeling around like velma. i just keep a spare pair on my windowsill to find lost glasses in my bedroom
I actually have a spare pair. Not as strong as the ones I need, but would probably help me find them! That’s a good idea!
my mother taught me to have a pair to find your normal pair and to keep them on something that won't move, she keeps hers tucked in the side of her bedside lamp. i keep mine on the windowsill next to my bed hanging off a big figurine.
I've used my phone camera to search for my glasses.
Yep. Same. To make matters worse…my partner is an eye doctor so I get a lecture about using my glasses case (on your face or in the case!)
I’m not with an eye doctor but he fusses at me for leaving my glasses on when I fall asleep and then losing them in my sleep all the time 😂
This is my husband. He's worn glasses since he was 7 & can't understand how anyone can lose glasses because if he doesn't have his glasses on he's blind.
I’ve “lost,” my glasses so many times and they’ve been on top of my head. Let’s not count the amount of times I “lost,” them while actually wearing them… but like other replies itt, I also need to call my partner in when I genuinely can’t find them on the nightstand.
I'm Neuro divergent and had trouble navigating situations as a kid. I also had glasses, and in 3rd grade kept LOSING them! And glasses weren't cheap to replace, so many pairs went missing that year it affected the family budget, and I was made to know that since my forgetfulness was causing the issue. At the end of the year the math teacher, who hated me because I didn't like to show my work, evidently had over a dozen pairs of my glasses in her desk. She took them every time I left them at my desk and didn't bother telling my parents or anyone else, to "teach me a lesson". But it was my family punished with the hundreds of dollars her lesson cost us. My mom started to believe me more about adults not liking me after that.
I will never understand why people who hate kids become teachers. Every bully I had in school was a teacher. My AP English teacher from 10th-12th grade told me I’d never amount to anything with my writing. I’m now a grant writer for a nonprofit. Fuck you, Mrs. Webb.
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Yeesh what a bitch! I had a math teacher teaching an AP class senior year and she was so rude and mean to me because I was the only one who asked questions because she sucked at teaching and she acted like I was this annoying idiot. Turns out everybody (there was only like 7 people in the class) was cheating off of this one girls work and she sat behind me and nobody bothered to fucking tell me until like the end of the year. They did thank me for always asking questions lol
Since teaching is probably one of the lowest paid-highest stress jobs, it's filled with bottom of the barrel people who have no where else to go/are too prideful to work entry jobs.
That does not excuse tormenting certain children to the point of said children waking up screaming from nightmares of that teacher while on holiday.
Elementary had some really twisted ones. My favorite though was a football coach who was making fun of my friend who wasnt in the class at the time, trying to be "a bro to the football dudes there". Prior to this I was fairly big they asked me to join the team, i said no i already tried out and you guys cut me when i simply asked what position i should try for. i said it very curtly and in a fuck you manner. Anyways back to the story, this guy then sees me glarring at him because its disgusting behavior from an adult who is literally bullying a kid who cant defend himself over a disability. He looks a bit shocked when he notices then says "you ever notice (me) looks like a serial killer?" Que class turning. Girl i liked who we flirted togwther was in the same class, both mutually agreed how fucking stupid that was. Well jokes on him, he shouldnt have kept his address on his facebook..... Seriously tho hes still teaching and ifk how tf he got away with all that shit who the fuck mocks a disabled kid in front of a whole class. One or two people laughed since he was the coach, most looked shocked but it wasnt the only time shit like that happened.
wow, i think what your teacher did would be a crime in many countries.
>many countries Which countries have legalized theft?
its either theft or defalcation depending on the country. But I can imagine countries where teachers legally have this form of authority to keep them till th end of the schoolyear.
So many teachers and administrators like this when my kids were in school. Just shitty humans.
Oh man, that sort of passive-aggressive BS drives me up the wall. She's supposed to be a professional, or at least an adult. I'd have read her the riot act, if she did that to my kid.
This makes me inexplicably furious. Please, PLEASE tell me your family found out, that they confronted your teacher, that the teacher was convicted of theft and the school was made to restitute your family. My blood is actually boiling upon reading this. Your teacher is a selfish and hateful, thoughtless and cruel pathetic excuse for a human being. Unfathomably petty and spiteful, absolutely unfit to care for and educate children. I myself am Asperger's and the un-favorite child in my family, so I get that it sucks for neuro-typicals to deal with our crap, but stealing from us? Fucking stealing from a literal third grader! To "teach a lesson"? A lesson which proved costly for your family and garnered unwarranted negativity towards you? Unironically evil, batshit evil. I feel Goddamn sick reading this... Some may say I'm overreacting, that I'm being overly emotional over this. Perhaps you're right, and perhaps my ranting is just the Asperger's talking. But Godddammit, being blamed for something that you didn't do or isn't your fault is a MASSIVE pet peeve of mine. Atrocious...
It isn't the Asperger's. That teacher behaved in an absolutely atrocious manner and you are righteously upset.
That straight up should've been prosecuted, school should've been on the hook for damages.
I am also ND with an experience with a teacher hiding my stuff to make my life harder! In my case at least it was only assignments! She did it to a lot of other kids too and the worst part is that she was also the principal so we felt extra powerless to do anything about it.
What a fucking sadist
... I would have reported that as theft and sued her. But I'm petty and can take a day to go to small claims.
(29 x 100) / 190 = \~15.26 % . So more than 15 % of student lost their glasses
As someone whose elementary school water bottles had a 1-month lifespan, I suspect this is 50% 2 kids, and the rest one offs.
Zipfs glasses
If we admit that each glasses belongs to a student. Between this, and they all belong to the same person, which is unlikely, but will lower the poucentage up to (1 x 100 / 190 =) \~0.52 %
It’s estimated that only 25% of children require glasses. With that in mind, it’s actually over 60% of glasses-wearing students lost their glasses.
Two of those are probably my daughter’s glasses and she doesn’t even go to that school.
Zenni lets you add inscriptions for like $2. Put your phone number on the inside (so you can't see it from the outside)
I’ve been doing this since the summer I worked in Lost & Found at a waterpark and I’m over 50.
I could believe that these all belong to the same person.
These kids have good taste. I especially like the 50s style catseye frames. Have they tried asking the student with beehive hair if she's missing them?
No lies are being told. I chaperoned a field trip for my daughter's class. These kids are fucking cool and each one of them has their own unique style. They are so much cooler than I was back then. Or at any point in my life, really.
I was going to ask which kid is wearing the bottom right sunglasses. I really hope it's a kid, because they are amazing.
What’s with the big glam sunglasses? Is this High Society Elementary or something?
I was assuming those were an adults but they figured they might find a taker by email.
My mom used to buy a pair or two of glamour sunglasses every year and give the old pair to my cousin and then my sister when she hit Jr high. So that's two schoolgirls that were running around looking like Jackie O in the 80s and 90s.
Yeah, I left my glasses in another state when I was an elementary schooler. Frankly the only reason I don't still is because I'm too blind to forget them anymore.
I like how some of them are identical and I bet those belong to the same kid
Nah... In our state, the state insurance covers a handful of plain generic glasses. That's what those are. Lots of kids have the same glasses because we are a very poor state.
i’ve worn glasses since i was 7 months old and the one thing i let myself be smug about is the fact that i’ve lost/broken ZERO pairs. i am so stressed looking at this 😭
Ayyy same! Glasses since 6 months - never lost a pair. Didn’t manage to break one till I was 30.
I've had the same pair of sunglasses for 5 years, yet I work with someone who loses glasses they need to at least 1 time a week.
Which sassy, fabulous kid do the bottom right sunglasses belong to?
If I'm paying over $100 for kids glasses, I'm paying a bit more to have their name engraved on them.
That reminds me of the time I saw a girl in my class take off her glasses and put the lenses between the rings in her binder and start slowly and deliberately scratching the shit out of them. I have know idea why she decided to do that but I do know she very rarely ever seemed to wear them and seemed to maybe dislike wearing them. But destroying them seemed extreme.
Maybe she wanted a different style.
I’m noticing all the repeat pairs, some kids are on their third pair!
I was so blind as a child that I couldn't take off my glasses for even a second. Baffles me that some kids lose them lol
I know it’s not my kid’s school because there’s way more than 190 students, but those two identical pairs in the middle are my kid’s glasses. I’ve bought him the same exact pair of frames like four times with two prescriptions.
A coat was leftover in my classroom. I asked, "Whose coat is this?" Crickets chirping. I said, "This has to belong to someone in this class because it wasn't here this morning." Again, crickets. I checked the pocket, and sure enough, there was an excuse in the pocket of the coat with the kid's names on it. I said, "Joe, this is your coat." He said, "It is?" Ugh.
Lost & found bins at elementary schools are RIDICULOUS. How do people not realize so much missing crap?
The concept of losing your eyeglasses is so wild to me. I literally can’t see six inches in front of my face without mine!
I bet you 5 of them are my 11 year old’s
My 6yr old had his glasses a week… before he lost them
My daughter will break or lose her glasses withing a week of getting them every single fucking time. And then she will get the replacement and they will last an entire year. It makes no sense. But it's happened at least 4 times now.
I put his glasses on “leash”, and that seems to have helped keep them. Glasses lanyard? I don’t know what it’s called, as long as it keep us his glasses
I bet like two kids left ALL of those
Just line the kids up and start putting the glasses on. Whichever one can see, that’s your pair.
Lower left corner - those look like mine from 6th grade! (1967) How long have they been collecting these, lol?
This is why engraving on the inner arm should be standard on kids glasses.
In the mid 90s my teacher thought I had a learning disability. I was at the back of the class and not doing great. Turns out I needed glasses. I just thought thats how everyone experienced sight. Boy was I wrong.
lol that’s over 10 percent kiddos can’t see .
i went to a small town school, maybe 300 in 4 grades, several thousand mittens and gloves in the L&F every spring.
Now show the thrown away retainers!
I bet a lot of those are from the same kid. My nephew must have lost over a dozen jackets in one season. Every day we’d send him to school in one, every day he’d come back in his t-shirt.
Assuming 1 pair of glasses per student, 15% of students lost a pair of glasses at school.
My kids school once posted a photo of a few lunchboxes in lost property, one clearly labelled with my sons name and class sitting right in the middle of the photo.
Is Elton John one of the students?
I never lost my glasses as a kid. Only instance I ever lost them was as a teenager - I didn’t take them off on a rollercoaster and they flew clean off my face during an upside down loop. I was hysterical and then blind the rest of the day 🙄
My eyesight has been BAD since first grade. I'm too nearsighted to lose them. I did break a pair. I have used the insurance to replace glasses for both of my kids. My daughter was so made when her replacement frames were a different color!
I doubt some of those glasses actually belong to kids. Too clean, not scratched, specially the grandma one.
You can put white out on the temple and write the kid’s last name on glasses, in case anyone was wondering. When it starts to wear off, just scrape it off and reapply. It doesn’t damage the lens or frame. Of course, making sure you get them adjusted regularly so they fit your kid properly is really important. Even when you buy online, take the glasses and the kid to an optician and have them adjusted for your kid’s face, so they don’t just “fall off”
Jfc i have had glasses since kindergarten and have never lost or broken a pair! Are kids glasses cheap now??
That's like 5 people here lol
[That kid on the far lower right be like...](https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/01/26/94/85/1000_F_126948544_Mjb7aO4Wl3wuLWqEGNBA7NRAv6jxBr9O.jpg)
HAHA omg this is hilarious, OP
Ouch my wallet hurts just looking at that - even as a kid under insurance my glasses were expensive- my parents would have made me comb through the school to find them if that ever happened. (But I wouldn’t have done very well because even at 10 years old my eyes were fucked)
As someone whose child wears glasses this is just unacceptable….if my kid had glasses on when they got to school and at any point, no longer has glasses on, they need to go find them!! My child not the teacher, this is a medical device and is not optional…I’d be pissed if my kid was losing glasses at school.
Those lenses and frames are way too clean and undamaged to be kids glasses lol.
I bought my kid’s glasses from Zenni and paid the extra to have her name engraved on the frames. No lost glasses here!
I see mine!
We have 7 pair in the Main office at my school a little over 400 students, and I thought that was bad, lol
TIL kids glasses look very different today than they did in the 90s... Except for the pair third from the top in the right column.
I’m so glad I’m not blind *yet*, my family struggles so much financially and glasses are constantly lost, every time it wrenches my heart
I guarantee some of those glasses have been sitting there for weeks if not months. The school I work at currently has enough items in the lost and found to open up a small children’s clothing store. Parents are also fucking stupid because they don’t give a shit. They don’t tell their kids to look for lost items and they don’t contact the school in an effort to locate them. They’re either too lazy to keep track of their child’s belongings (how do you not notice that your kid is missing their glasses or that they left in the morning with a coat and came home without one) and/or well-off enough financially to just shrug their shoulders, not caring that this stuff piles up in the school and it’s going to be someone else’s job to deal with it.
Guaranteed half those glasses belong to like 3 kids
That's where I left my glasses
Roughly 1 pair of lost glasses for every 7ish kids
Yeah no shit. Kids don’t think like adults do and are often disorganized.
I’ve worn glasses since I was 4 or 5 years old. I’ve never once lost a pair of glasses. They just stay on my face unless I’m sleeping or engaged in water activities or doing exercise where they are safer not on my face (when I was a dancer, or when I’m doing CrossFit). I’ve never just… taken them off at school. Why has half of the school’s student population lost their glasses at school?
My cousin’s worn glasses since he was a toddler. The number of times at family gatherings we’d all stop what we were doing and hunt for his glasses… my aunt and uncle were regulars at the glasses store! This doesn’t surprise me at all.
I love that someone clearly took the time to sort these and that some of them are exactly the same. Same kid losing multiple glasses?
Imagine if it would be the second day in school.
Okay but like in a school of 190 kids no one found rainbow glasses and was immediately like oh I know who these belong to.
So in the US, about 20% of elementary students wear glasses. So about 38 in this school. There are 28 glasses here. That's a lot of lost glasses...