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Five habits that make glasses last longer

Five habits that make glasses last longer

The single biggest cause of broken kids glasses isn't the fall, the football, or the wrestling match. It's a backpack. Specifically: glasses left loose inside a bag where they get sat on, bent, and scratched by everything else inside.

Habit one: always use the case. We know, we know. But the case keeps the frame from twisting. Most of our frames can survive a 2-metre fall onto concrete. They cannot survive a 60-kilogram parent sitting on a backpack.

Habit two: teach the two-hand rule for putting them on and taking them off. One-handed glasses removal twists the frame asymmetrically over thousands of repetitions. Two hands keep it aligned.

Habit three: clean with the cloth, not the shirt. Shirts carry small particles that scratch lenses. The microfibre cloth that ships with the frame is all you need.

Habit four: don't leave them on a car dashboard. Heat warps plastic frames. Even TR-90 has limits in direct sunlight inside a car on a summer day.

Habit five: store upside down when not in the case. It sounds counterintuitive, but frames stored right-side up on a flat surface gradually loosen the hinge tension over time. Upside down distributes the weight differently.

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