"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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NY wrote:

don't rush into getting varifocals.

I've gone back to a single vision lenses for distance (and these days an
intermediate pair, notionally for computer use).

The intermediates are "good enough" for most things around the house
except watching TV, the problem is they're good enough to get out to the
car before I realise I haven't swapped glasses as soon as I look beyond
the bonnet.

When I first got reading glasses, I only needed them for reading a book. I
didn't need them (and they made things more blurred) for using a computer at
a slightly greater distance. My distance vision is almost OK, but I need
very weak lenses to make things just slightly sharper.

As my accommodation has got worse over the last year, and my close sight has
gradually got worse, I've got into the habit of wearing my reading glasses
around the house to save me having to keep getting my reading glasses when I
need to read cooking instructions, names on incoming letters etc.

And it's got to such a habit that I too have gone out to my car several
times, still wearing my reading glasses, and only realised as I've started
to reverse that things aren't as sharp as they should be. Get out of car,
lock it, unlock house, find glasses, lock house, unlock car - it all takes
time!