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Everytime we go out for a meal we can't read the menu!
Cos we forget to take our glasses
so we end up with soup in a basket cos we don't know what we are ordering!
so.....
Wolvie went to asda yesterday and bought off the shelf some bins for £7 and a case for £2
so for under a tenner we have specs we can see with!

considering we both paid over £3oo quid for the ones we have each!!
that is an amazing saving

they are vile but who cares
I can see!

Doesn't matter too much if you lose them either

(I'm already short sighted so no off the shelf for me when I start needing reading glasses - and with varifocals they say you can lie on your side and watch the tv/read a book)

I think that is what I need cos I keep looking over them when
I talk to folk and then have to look thru em when I read somat

mind they are better than the ones I had before cos I had sticking plaster over my nose
as they rubbed me so much.

Northern Lass wrote:I think that is what I need cos I keep looking over them when
I talk to folk and then have to look thru em when I read somat

Reminds me of my old maths teacher Mr Luxton and his half moons!
Why do they call them "bins"?

snoopysue wrote:

Northern Lass wrote:I think that is what I need cos I keep looking over them when
I talk to folk and then have to look thru em when I read somat

Reminds me of my old maths teacher Mr Luxton and his half moons!
Why do they call them "bins"?

I think it is northern for binnoculors can't spell that ..

bet Pete could

Northern Lass wrote:
I think it is northern for binnoculors can't spell that ..

bet Pete could

Thanks for that Just goes to show.... I always thourght it was Cockney Rhyming Slang

Jan I think you may find it is Bans not Bins after the posh Ray Bans !
Mike.

mikleed wrote:Jan I think you may find it is Bans not Bins after the posh Ray Bans !
Mike.

Not heard that one before - just googled it NL's right, but so are you (sort of). Bans is american slang for sunglasses

mikleed wrote:Jan I think you may find it is Bans not Bins after the posh Ray Bans !
Mike.

no it is Bins! ....Jo who is really really northern says bins!

and here look

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bins

I Do Love Lucys Bins!!

Rob wrote:I Do Love Lucys Bins!!

You scoured that didn't you to find something waccy to say!

I've heard them called bins in our area.

I have varifocals bins but they don't have expensive designer frames .

Also got 2 pair of the cheep kind from Lidle and they are good for reading , I take them when I go out shopping for if I lose them .

Annie

Northern Lass wrote:

Rob wrote:I Do Love Lucys Bins!!

You scoured that didn't you to find something waccy to say!

Northern Lass wrote:

mikleed wrote:Jan I think you may find it is Bans not Bins after the posh Ray Bans !
Mike.

no it is Bins! ....Jo who is really really northern says bins!

and here look

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bins

No say Gegs
Dont know why
Jo

You can get reading glasses cheaper than that NL. My hubby buys his from Poundland or TKMax. He's got 4 pairs (at the last count) as he keeps them around various places in the house or car. I told him to get one of those thingies, like a shoelace, you put round your neck and attach the ends of the thingy onto the arms of your specs. We had a look at the price and they were about £3 or £4. In shock he replied "I'm not paying that much, the specs only cost me a quid" so I offered to crochet or knit him a thingy. He replied "keep using that it will stretch down to me knees"