Eyes getting older

All A Dollar reading glasses are the best. My husband and I have them everywhere. Sometimes when threading my sewing machine needle, I find that if I place a small white card behind the needle, I can see the eye hole better.

From Utah,

Bev

Welcome to Bifocal Denial. This thing with the triangles is the real, true, genuine reason why I make them a bit too large and trim down -much easier to get them accurate with the Bias Square. And it might be the true reason why my colors are getting brighter -easier to see the suckers against the mat :-)

DH is 7 years older than I, and we are now into retro gloating. I used to gloat about his 1st reading glasses, now I could wear them (if they fit my head) so he's gloating. But in a gentlemanly fashion -we've been married long enough so he knows where not to cross the line! Roberta in D

My sister is my optometrist. She was positively gleeful when she prescribed my first pair of bifocals. As she is only 15 months younger than me, she should have known that my needing them was just a signal to her that she would need them soon . . .

lisae

Roberta Zollner wrote:

My DH seriously accused me of putting lower wattage bulbs in all the lamps. He was mightily offended that he was losing his eyesight. His distance vision is still perfect. I have to look for my reading glasses a lot more often now, but I don't mind it. I have some really cute ones. He is just appalled and it is a real inconvenience to him. He has glasses laying everywhere.

Cindy

I didn't even know I was shortsighted till I was 19- just assumed that the world was meant to be fuzzy. Getting glasses was ruinously bad for me- I had to give up painting- couldn't deal with the amount of detail in the world. At that age my usable eyesight finished about 2 inches from the eyeball. Lately I have found, to my horror, that the bit at bent-arms-length- you know, the bit where the needle is, has become available without glasses. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is still missing if I take them off. I thread a needle (hand or machine) maybe a hundred times a day. Have had to learn to do it by touch....... aaaargh!

Helen

It's nice to know those green mats drive someone else nuts, too. For an industry so affected by contrast, wouldn'tcha think *every* cutting mat would have a light and a dark side? As for glasses...I hate to think how much of my life is spent hunting for them. Unlike my car, they're not as good about showing up when I whistle for them...

In article , teleflora writes

Hey, my DH accused me of running the washing machine too hot and shrinking all his trousers. It couldn't have anything to do with all the pizza and beer. Oh no.

This is such a great idea! I wonder if there is a company out there that produces two-color reversible mats? I'd love one! Or two....or one in each size!

-JoyceG in WA

Well, I didn't know that pants got shorter when the person wearing them got wider. I thought my legs grew!

Cindy

I started wearing glasses at 16, eyesight test for learner's permit showed that I needed glasses. It seems that my eyes have stabilised a bit in the last few years, but I'll still get them checked out thouroughly every two years.

We used to have a local car mechanic ( owner of the gas station actually ) who would wear his wife's old glasses...quite a site as they had rhinestones on the top of the frames !...Mary

I've got a couple of white mats. Love them for the color, but the ones I have don't seem to "heal" as easily as the others. Dritz also makes a blue mat, but that is difficult to see blues on. So I have different mats for different colors. I look for them on clearance and sale to buy and try different ones.

Pati, in Phx

DDM wrote:

The Fiskar's mat is light gray on one side and a darker gray with orange grid lines on the other. The light gray side is just about the perfect color for me. Unfortunately it warps like crazy. Does anyone use the white cutting mats? I don't know a brand name, but I've seen them at vendor's booths at shows.

Dee in LeRoy, NY

One of mine is gray on one side, and a sort of off-white gray on the other. I think it's a Fiskars. I've got way too many mats! Anyhow, it works to see greens on, but seems to dull blades faster.

Dragonfly Who had to try them all to see which she liked best!