U.K. tips, along similar lines... Most high street stores do free eye tests to get you in the door. The price will be around £20, but free vouchers in papers,

U.K. tips, along similar lines... Most high street stores do free eye tests to get you in the door. The price will be around £20, but free vouchers in papers, leaflets, in store, online, etc, are very available. You could probably just ask for a free one. Alternatively, if you use a computer enough in your work, I believe your company is required to cover eye tests. Lastly, but online. Get your prescription from the store and don’t buy in store. Go to somewhere like Glasses Direct, a Warburg Parker equivalent for the U.K., and buy from their own brand ranges if you can. They are typically £25-100 for frames, and almost always buy one get one free. Between these tips, I tend to get a new pair of glasses and prescription sunglasses, with good lens coatings on both, and going for more fashionable frames, for about £120 all in (2 pairs). As a student I did this and was spending about £60, and that’s every 2 years or so as my eyes change and glasses break. Conversely I have family who spend £250+ a pop on the high street.