Tag: resources

vgfm:

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stephanemiroux:

bigskydreaming:

Okay heads up for all Americans eligible to vote:

The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.

This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.

What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.

They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.

And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.

This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:

If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.

Yikes

Reblog this shit right now

Here’s a Twitter thread with resources for voters in every state to check on their registration status: https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1006221580458790912

Make sure you check it periodically because the newest voter roll purges likely haven’t happened yet.

azimedes:

azimedes:

Heat Transfer Vinyl

Okay dudes I wanna teach you some magic today.  I get a LOT of questions about what I use for designs on my Zelda costume as well as on my Matt Miller jacket.  You can buy it on eBay pretty easily.  I get mine here.

This stuff looks amazing and it’s SO CLEAN when you apply it.  It also isn’t overly shiny, so it looks pretty great on most fabrics, which is why I prefer it to painting fabric.  SO here is how the stuff works:

  1. Heat transfer vinyl has two sides—a glossy and a matte side.  You’re going to want to draw your design on the matte side, as that’s where it has the adhesive.
  2. Draw your design and cut it out.
  3. Place it matte side down, glossy side up on the fabric you’re using.
  4. Iron!  I put my iron on the highest setting just to be sure it sticks but some times this can warp the vinyl if you’re not careful.  You’ll want to go over it a few times.
  5. Peel off the glossy side and bam! You’re done and you have a kickass design on your fabric!

Hey guys, I wrote this tutorial a million years ago but I’ve been getting questions about Matt Miller again so HERE U GO.

Let’s talk about mynoise.net

theessentialrohly:

sabertoothwalrus:

a–mellifera:

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vaudevillellain:

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

Enjoy!

OH MY GOD

yeah this thing basically saved my thesis

@ ya’ll with misophonia or other noise sensitivies

I’ve been using the app version for hears and it has saved me from so many anxiety attacks

hey old news here but back when i worked at kroger my schedule was so shitty that I had to get about 80% of my sleep in the breakroom and this site right here, is the only reason I was ever able to do that. The fan noise drowned out everything and actually allowed me to fall asleep, which technically stopped me from completely dying/suffering greatly. I’ve kicked them a few dollars in support but they totally deserve more, check them out if you’re bored or looking for something similar!

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neurofancier:

khirsahle:

newtsckamander:

suaimhneas-peace:

emeraldboreas:

a-windsor:

mellivorinae:

a-windsor:

mellivorinae:

OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???

“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”

I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT

NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU.

Also:

Dear ______:

Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future].

Sincerely,
@mellivorinae

THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE

YOU ARE WELCOME

My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.

should it be an email? or like a physical letter?

email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are. 

Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.

I didn’t get the job.

However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.

So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.

Either way, those letters are important.

Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it. 

Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.

Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)

Also like for cover letters I always closed with “thank you for the opportunity, and I look forward to hearing from your company, should my skills fit the needs of this position.” Which got me employed less than a year after law school in the field of my choice

Executive dysfunction life hack

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star-anise:

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naamahdarling:

lenyberry:

star-anise:

feathersmoons:

star-anise:

feathersmoons:

star-anise:

lemonsharks:

star-anise:

Instead of telling yourself, “I should get up,” or “I should do this,”

Ask yourself, “When will I get up?” or “When will I be ready to do this?”

Instead of trying to order yourself to feel the signal to do something, which your brain is manifestly bad at, listen to yourself with compassionate curiosity and be ready to receive the signal to move when it comes.

Things I did not actually realize was an option

What’s amazing is what happens when you do this with children.  I hit on it when working at the foster home, where nearly all our kids were on the autism spectrum, and they weren’t “defiant” around me because I said things like, “How long do you need to stand here before we can move?” and “Come into the kitchen when you’re ready” instead of saying, “Stop staring out the window, let’s go,” or “Come eat dinner,” and interpreting hesitation as refusal to obey.

I have also definitely found that doing the “okay when I finish counting down from twenty is getting up time” has been useful.

Yup, that’s way better for toddlers and younger kids.  It helps when they don’t have the self-awareness, attention span, or concept of the passage of time to estimate when they’ll be ready by themselves.

Oh I meant for me. XD Saying it to myself.

WELL OKAY WHOOPS XD I should not have been overspecific, I was just thinking about teaching this stuff to the parents at my job and your reblog made me immediately think of you with Banana and the kidlets.

Another hack: when you want to get up but are stalled by your brain and frustrated – stop. Breathe. Think about what you want to do once you’re up, without thinking about getting up. Treat it like a fantasy, no pressure, just thinking about something you’d like to do in the future. Instead of thinking “I should get up” over and over, think about having a bagel for breakfast, or getting dressed in your soft green sweater. Imagine yourself doing the thing.

I find that exercise often side-steps the block and the next thing I know I’m out of bed and on my way to doing the other thing I thought about.

Works for other things too, if you’re stuck on one step and having a hard time doing it, think about the step after that. Need to do laundry and you can’t get yourself to gather up your dirty clothes in the hamper? Think instead about carrying the hamper full of dirty clothes to the laundry room. And when you get to that next step, if you get stuck again, think about the step after it – you have a hamper of dirty clothes that needs to be put in the wash, let your subconscious handle the “carry hamper to laundry room” step while you’re thinking about the “putting them in the wash” part.

YMMV of course, and this doesn’t even always work for me (particularly not when I need to do a collection of tasks in no particular order, like packing for a trip… “pack socks, pack underwear, pack toothbrush, pack pants, pack shirts” is the kind of non-linear task list where this trick doesn’t help at all), but it’s something I’ve found helpful often enough.

This is one of the most beautiful threads I’ve seen on Tumblr simply because it deals so compassionately with an issue so many of us have and can barely even articulate to ourselves, let alone to anyone else. ❤

I think I get overwhelmed from the thought of all of the consequent steps, so maybe I’ll do the reverse of the advice above and try to focus on the first one.

@the-rain-monster i was just about to say something similar. that can work too sometimes. instead of going “ugh i need to eat something” for four hours, i try to focus on each step in turn.

and i mean each TINY step. just getting out of my chair has this many steps:

  1. pause music
  2. remove headphones
  3. hang headphones on laptop screen
  4. pick up laptop
  5. leg-bend recliner footrest shut
  6. set laptop aside
  7. stand

and i reckon that’s why i get stuck on it; because i’m trying to treat it as one thing, while executive dysfunction is treating it as seven things, and choking on trying to skip to step seven.

concurrent with this is a method i call ‘junebugging’. which is where i go to the location of the thing i want to do, and just sort of bump around the region like a big stupid beetle until the thing somehow accidentally magically gets done. this is an attempt to leverage ADHD into an advantage; i may not have the executive function to make myself a sandwich on purpose, but if i fidget in the kitchen long enough, some kind of food is going to end up in my mouth eventually. and hell, even if i fail on that front, i will probably have achieved something, even if it’s only pouring all my loose leaf tea into decorative jars.*

@star-anise please may i give you an internet hug *hug!* because god how i wish anyone had known to do that for me when i was a kid. my childhood was one big overload, and like 99% of the huge dramatic meltdowns that made me the scapegoat/laughingstock/target of my entire elementary school were simply due to people not giving me time to process the next step, and interpreting a bluescreen as defiance/insult.

*this happened when i was trying to do dishes actually but the principle is sound

yeah i absolutely echo what j’s saying about the steps, it’s a lot like that for me too. i get overwhelmed at the prospect of something that should be simple, and have to slow down and sort out how many steps it’s actually going to take, and what a complicated endeavor it actually is, even if no one else thinks so. 

also, i thought i should put in: try to honestly figure out what you’re averse to, that makes things so tough. making a whole bunch of decisions really fast? the potential of things to make a horrible noise? the shame of failure? having to put down what you’re doing now? having to clean up whatever it is you might go do when you’re done?

for instance, for me, the difficulty rating on anything goes waaaay up when a step of a task is ‘go somewhere people will look at you,’ which is for me about the unpleasantness equivalent of ‘jump into a very cold swimming pool right now’. you know you’ll be fine and even have fun once you’ve settled into it, but it still takes a lot of shuffling around and bracing yourself first to go for it. and some days you just don’t fucking want to go swimming.

i discounted this factor for years because i wouldn’t admit that i was so daunted by something so silly as as people looking at me. but, now i know what i’m so aversive about, i can factor it in to plans, and work around it, and be kind to myself. for instance, i was never able to get fit since highschool PE, because i couldn’t make myself go to a gym, or even out jogging. once i figured out the big problem wasn’t avoidance pain or difficulty, it was avoidance of doing a New Thing that i was Bad At in front of Unknown Quantities Of Strangers, which is like a triple threat of stressors, i started working out quietly and safely in my room at night, and i’ve been doing really good on it! 

Absolutely loving the tag #you don’t make a broken car work by yelling ALL THE OTHER CARS WORK FINE

I always picture myself doing the thing before I do it, checking possible outcomes. It is good for my executive disfunction because my brain thinks “Ah, O already did it, just repeat”, and sometimes it works. Also, it helps me to to avoid mistakes. The drawback is that everything takes more spoons because in my brain I do everything several times. And I developed this before I knew what Executive Disfunction was … I was just trying to survive.
I was actually surprised to learn that most people “just do” things. How is that even possible?

I find usually when I’m stuck, it’s because I’ve grouped too many tasks together, so I go “of all the things I intend to do when I get up, which is most crucial?” and I decide to do only that one thing, never mind all the other things I was going to do.

I know this post isn’t for me, but I think I’m going to use it too. For like, getting out od ved and doing homework, because the only modivation for either is that if I don’t, I’ll be in trouble. Maybe I should focus on the result of the action rather than currently doing it? Idk. I almost never can get out of bed while still kinda tired or upset when my mom isn’t there to tell me I have to, and somedays I just can’t do homework. Does anybody know if the tactics above also work for when you have a lack of modivation? I don’t have anything wtong with me, but I am easily distractible, and I tend to abandon work for things that are more fun and make me happy. If you don’t want someone changing the subject though, I’ll get off your post. Y’all are just so observant. Like, seriously, looking at the big picture? That’s hard. I think we all need to do that.

This thread got even more amazing since I last reblogged it.

These are a lot of great tips, struggling with executive dysfunction is a living nightmare. I love the part about junebugging around the kitchen, because I often find myself doing the same thing without realizing that’s what I’ve been doing. I need a food but the thought of going through all the steps of making a food- even something as simple as microwave noodles or a PB&J is just so overwhelming. So I find myself just puttering around the kitchen cleaning up for about 10 minutes, because doing mindless cleaning is a million times easier than purposeful cooking. It’s very frustrating to feel you should be able to accomplish tasks that, for some inexplicable reason, feel like climbing Mount Everest – virtually impossible. Thank god I have a big household and by our powers combined we form almost one whole functional adult. 

How do i know that i have executive dysfunction and i’m not just being lazy/procrastinating and am overreacting?

star-anise:

How would you respond differently in the second scenario? 

Proposed techniques for executive dysfunction include things like changing how tasks are structured, mindfulness, and recruiting help. 

Usually when people talk to me about “laziness”, their proposed solutions include….yelling at themselves, punishing themselves, or offering themselves rewards for good behaviour.

So here’s my question: Do any of those techniques for “laziness” actually help? Do they actually make things better? Do you actually perform better or produce more when you use them? Do these methods work?

Because here’s the thing. If you’re totally neurotypical–if you could do the work if you just tried hard enough–then maybe those tactics will work. If you can but just don’t want to, the problem is that you’re not sufficiently motivated.

But if you’re not–if you’ve got anxiety or ADHD or a learning disorder or depression, something that makes work either too painful or too difficult to handle as it is, something that makes work seem not possible, then those strategies will backfire on you big time. You might get a little spurt of productivity out of the adrenaline of sheer terror, but once that wears off, you’re back to the essential problem that no matter how motivated you are, the work is too difficult/too painful to do the regular way.  You won’t be able to maintain a regular, steady flow of work.

(If you have a lack of motivation no matter what, that’s a different problem. Our brain considers getting organized [executive dysfunction] a nice fancy perk. However, the motivation to eat, do things, and take care of yourself is rather more fundamental. Executive dysfunction can be solved with fancy cognitive tricks in many cases, and many people with executive dysfunction issues cope without medication. But if you have an absolute lack of motivation, that’s usually associated with depression and often needs medical treatment to fix.)

So the answer to your question–and the reason why I don’t believe “laziness” lies at the base of most peoples’ problems–is in the results. I’m not kind and gentle with myself because it feels better; I used to self-flagellate with the best of them. But the simple truth I had to admit was that beating myself up didn’t get the work done.

Punishing myself, or promising myself rewards, failed to perform. I got more done, to a higher standard, by being gentle and gently disciplined with myself.

So… that’s how you know. Try both methods and see what works.

useful junk for RP

ouyangdan:

lumicide:

websites & add ons. 

  • lazarus – text form recovery! for when tumblr eats an ask or reply you’ve drafted in the post window. [chrome / firefox]
  • sessionbox – log in to multiple accounts on the same site within the same browser. for juggling lots of blogs without having to sign in and out, memorize a dozen emails, or use incognito windows. lets you save ‘sessions’, so you can reopen a different blog in a new tab with one click, no sign in needed. [chrome / firefox / opera]
  • rp thread tracker quickadd – a button in the address bar on permalink pages that adds the thread to your rpthreadtracker account. [chrome / firefox]
  • pro writing aid – in depth editor. checks for grammar, clarity, adverbs, passive voice, repeated words, cliches, pacing, ‘filler’ words, sentence length variety – there’s an on-click thesaurus, too! just, SO MUCH SHIT. [in browser; add-on for ms word/google docs] (as always, take any auto-editor with a grain of salt; your judgment as a writer trumps a computer algorithm.)
  • grammarly – add on that checks your grammar, spelling, & misused words in real time as you type in any browser text form. [chrome / firefox]
  • hemingway – a light, in browser auto-editor that checks your writing for sentence structure clarity, verbose phrases, use of passive voice (!!!), and more. lighter than prowritingaid; no account required. [in browser]
  • written? kitten! – a cute site that rewards you with a pics of kittens (or puppies, or bunnies) for every x number of words you write. [in browser]
  • write or die – a bit sadistic, but fun. set a timer and wordcount goal, then WoD will alarm the shit out of you if you slow down too much. ex., the screen goes red, an alert sounds. one particularly nasty option makes it delete words if you’re too slow lmao. good for a ‘jfc i just need to write SOMETHING’ kick in the ass, which we all need sometimes. [in browser; click ‘try’ for the free version]

software.

  • write! – pretty much my default writing program. clean minimalistic UI, autosaves every damn keystroke, jump between multiple documents in tidy tabs, cloud sync support (access all your documents from any computer in real time). [free for students; account required.]
  • focus writer – no fuss, full screen text editor. totally free, pretty themes, customizable, and most important: (optional) typewriter sounds!

(feel free to message me with stuff that’s helped you! if people use this i’ll keep it updated.)

4thewords – is an adventure game where you battle monsters by writing words, level up, and even face boss battles.

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mishafletcher:

hey, so, i feel weird promoting this, but you know how the collective we of tumblr are always like, someone should write a cookbook that’s actually easy? i did the thing, just in time for gross summer heat/seasonal affective disorder, depending on the hemisphere, to kick in.

image

Cooking is terrible, and food is often a massive pain in the ass. Eating is sometimes ok, sometimes a giant drag, and somehow still a thing that you have to do multiple times a day, which seems enormously unfair.

This book isn’t going to teach you how to cook, or turn you into the kind of person who hosts effortless dinner parties, or make you more attractive and popular and interesting. At best, it’s going to make it slightly more likely that you manage to eat something in the ten minutes between walking in the door and falling into the sweet embrace of the internet. I’m not joking—a lot of this can be done, start to finish, in ten to fifteen minutes. I resent thirty-minute meals because it feels like about twenty-eight minutes too long to spend on feeding myself.

If you’re excited to get home from work and spend an hour cooking dinner, this isn’t the book for you. If you really value authenticity, this isn’t the book for you. If you literally only eat three foods and you’re happy like that, this isn’t the book for you. If you, like me, are tired and depressed and just need to get some food into your face once in a while, this is definitely the book for you. You should buy it. Maybe it’ll help.

anyhow, you can buy it for $5 on amazon (for kindle files) and gumroad (for a pdf and epub), and any money earned goes towards things like paying my rent and buying groceries.

i’m disabled and mentally ill and a single parent, and i’d love to be excited about food, but most of the time, it’s just an inconvenient thing i gotta do to stay alive. i wrote this for people who’re kinda like me. i hope that maybe it helps someone.

I’ve read this, and it’s super useful– a whole lot of lists and easy to make meals that are better than eating nothing, again, for the sixth time this week because everything is too many. 

I suspect it’ll be super useful to a lot of y’all– brain weasels suck, and being out of ideas for food sucks, and being hungry because you open the fridge and then stare at everything and cry because it’s too many to work out what food is super sucks

Now that I bought it and read it, it really is just the thing I wanted.

I know how to cook and like cooking and there’s some actual cooking recipes in here, but when you’re someone whose mind just conks out completely for no reason, it really does help to have somebody suggest things as simple as “hey, nut butter and cucumbers go good on bread together, try that”

@meldanya44 & @veliseraptor I love you both but y’all need to eat. ♥

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ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

argumate:

where are those startups that are disrupting the glasses industry

zenni and it’s amazing and i love it 40 dollar bifocals fuck yeah

Hey I’m reblogging this again because if you need glasses here’s what I do:

  • Go to Costco/Sams Club/WalMart – wherever they’ve got that $58 eye exam. That’s with no insurance, btw. Just $58 cash on the counter, you get your eyes examined.
  • They’ll give you a copy of your prescription. ASK THE DOCTOR TO MEASURE YOUR PUPIL DISTANCE. If they don’t it’s not a huge deal, you just have to have a ruler around that has millimeters so you can measure it yourself and it won’t be as accurate but being off by as much as a centimeter isn’t a problem.
  • Make them give you a copy of your prescription – you are allowed to have this, they have to give you it, you don’t have to buy glasses there. If anyone challenges you say you need a copy for your records and you’re not going to buy glasses today.
  • Go to https://www.zennioptical.com/ and start looking at frames/glasses that you like. If you create an account it’ll let you upload a photo and based on your pupil distance the site will estimate how well various frames will fit you.
  • Add the frames you like to cart and start checking out – the checkout process will ask you for your RX details that will be written in the boxes on your RX page. It’s pretty intuitive to copy it over but if you get lost use the livechat feature on the zenni page.
  • Start selecting your glasses details. Your RX will determine what kind of lens you get (go with the one zenni recommends for materials and thickness) but your needs will determine the other stuff. I make sure to get the fancy oleophobic coating because I’m a slimy bog monster. I also get the cheapest pair of sunglasses possible because bog monsters hate the sun. You can get transitions lenses or anti-scratch coating or super lightweight lenses or whatever works best for you. The extras will add up in cost but you gotta do what you gotta do – my life is much better with a pair of sunglasses than it is with some clip-ons for my regular glasses; your life may be better with transitions lenses instead of carrying a second set of glasses. DO WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU.
  • Don’t bother paying the rush shipping, this is going to take two weeks regardless.
  • GLASSES ARRIVE. WEAR GLASSES.
  • If the fit isn’t perfect see if the place that did your eye exam will adjust the fit for you. They often will free of charge.
  • GLASSES. GLASSES. I CAN SEE.
  • PROGRESSIVE BIFOCALS THAT COST $40 WITH CUTE FRAMES AND NICE COATING.
  • SUNGLASSES.
  • FUCK
  • It costs less for me to get two pairs of bifocals, one tinted and one clear, with special coatings and nice frames than it would cost me to get one pair of single-vision glasses from Warby Parker.
  • The cheapest frames available for adults on Lenscrafter’s site is $69.95. That is JUST the frames, not the lenses. The lenses are like $200. The anti-glare coating is like $70. THE ANTI GLARE COATING IS FREE AND INCLUDED WITH YOUR PURCHASE AT ZENNI. Just the frames and the coating at lenscrafters costs more than my two pairs of glasses AND my eye exam.

I can’t articulate how many literal headaches Zenni has saved me because I just used to wear my old prescription until I had trouble keeping my eyes open from the strain. Now at the first hint of eye strain it’s like “Not today, Satan!” and I can plan for the $100 expense that’s going to last me potentially years.

I’ve had glasses places try to bully me into buying their overpriced glasses (even though they were supposed to offer eye exams no strings attached.) The Stanton Optical manager called me repeatedly trying to get my sale, after one of his employees literally mocked me for wanting to buy cheaper glasses online. I was firm about it and didn’t give in because fuck them.

also just a quick note on pupil distances:

  • if you’re PD is like mine and ends in a .5 or something like that and they only have whole numbers put the nearest whole number in the box then add a note with your real PD and they’ll fix it

another great website that i always use is eyebuydirect.com

ive been buying from them for 2+ years and their glasses start at $6 and they dont charge extra to put your prescription in. the only thing is that it takes about 2 weeks for the glasses to get to you but its worth it. my glasses are still in good condition and they always have bogo sales. and they give you like I think 10 or 15% off your first purchase if you use this code IFR6WNLQ4H 

i use my vision insurance to buy one “good” (read: expensive) pair from lenscrafters or wherever, and then i just randomly buy other pairs from these two sites. i actually started buying glasses here for cosplay- i’m too lazy for contacts so i usually need new glasses for each costume, and this way i can get ones that i won’t regularly wear without spending a ton of money- but now i just randomly go on and buy fun new pairs when i get bored of my current ones!

shipping to NZ is only $10?? even with the terrible conversion rate its way way cheaper than buying in store omg i cant wait to get some new glasses from them. 

thank you team <33