Er...... reading things.
John Healy has resigned as Defence Secretary
We've got our hands on 6 pairs of Eyejusters to give away!
Eyejusters are the near vision solution we’ve all been waiting for: Adjustable focus reading glasses. Eyejusters are a single pair of glasses to replace all your reading glasses.
The glasses have two small dials tucked behind the frame to adjust the lenses for each eye independently. They allow you to move the in-focus zone at any time to the desired distance. You can adjust the lens power from +0 to +3.00D, covering the range most commonly used in daily life. You need only one pair for all close-up activities.
You could also give the glasses away as a present for your husband or children, who refuse to get their eyes tested...
Eyejusters lens units have been developed and manufactured in-house, in the UK. The technical design fits into normal, stylish frames. For more details, take a look on Eyejusters' website.
Can you imagine a day without your reading glasses? To win a pair of Eyejusters (you get to pick you own style), tell us about all the activities you need reading glasses for these days.
This competition will close at midday on Friday 10 June.
Er...... reading things.
Quilting especially using the sewing machine, I have to buy prescription reading glasses as I need a different prescription for each eye. Sight is much worse in left eye so these would solve the problem.
I wear contact lenses that bring my eyesight back up to needing reading glasses
I'm not entirely sure how this combination was arrived at, but I think it had something to do with the contacts not being strong enough for doing craftwork.
So I use reading glasses for the 'puter, for knitting and crocheting, and for peering over.
Cross stitch. Threading needles. Plucking the upper lip
I'm blind as a bat and wear contact lenses normally, but some close work just defeats me without a bit of extra help.
What a brilliant invention! Never mind asking us what we wear our reading glasses for, ask us what our reading glasses still don't help with! I wear my reading glasses for so many things - reading, sewing, craft work, computing, watching TV, checking the ingredients of something in the shops, consulting the map when navigating on a journey.
However, there are many instances where they are not strong enough and I have to resort to trying to keep a loupe in my eyesocket while using two hands to do some fiddly job, like replacing the minute screws when they fall out of my specs, getting out splinters, deciphering tiny print.
Only today I had to untie a knot that had formed itself in a nylon thread. The only way to get it out was by using a pin as a marlin spike to get into the knot and tease it apart. Without the loupe I couldn't see exactly where to insert it, with the loupe in place I had only a few seconds to work before letting go of the thread to pick up the fallen lens from the table and put it back in my eye. Most frustrating (I did succeed eventually)
Tying tiny fishing flies, but more importantly, attaching said tiny flies onto very fine nylon line. My reading glasses only just cope these days, and at odd times when I have come out without them, I have had to borrow DH's or abandon the day. Coupled with my poor eyesight, my increasing lack of manual dexterity and pinch grip are beginning to make me wonder whether I should migrate to 'the dark side', where bunging a maggot or worm onto a hook and dangling it in the water would be so much easier and more convenient! ?
I need reading glasses for any close up work. The warm weather recently, that has since disappeared, meant sandals and the first time I needed my readers to see to apply nail polish to my toes 
I need a pair in every room and bag, specially when needing to read labels or menus.
I had to Google 'loupe' 
Reading, sewing, eyebrow plucking, looking at photos, all that kind of stuff.
Ive got two pairs of glasses at the minute and I have to keep swapping them about. I like to knit and watch TV, so when Im doing both the TV is blurry. Also reading the menus at coffee shops (the ones that are on the wall behind the counter).
reading cooking instructions on packets
Reading emails and of course gransnet!
More and more things! It used to be just small print in books, now I need them for instructions on packets, recipes, threading needles, the computer, menus etc. These sound brilliant, but please could the clever inventor(s) get to work on making a pair that are easily findable (making a noise or something). I did think that something on my phone to locate them would be good, but then I realised I would need to know where my phone was!
To read the calorie count on food packaging
I need them for reading, for watching tv and for sewing
I used to have distance sighted glasses for driving and for the TV, but got so fed up with having to keep swapping to reading glasses, that I decided to try varifocals. However these are no good for really close work, like sewing or working on the desktop computer editing photos. So I always keep a pair of off-the-shelf reading glasses by the computer and my sewing machine.
These Eyejusters sound fantastic! I know I would make so much use of them because although the supermarket reading glasses work, my sight is slightly different in each eye, so they're not perfect.
For reading occasionally.
I need them for reading and the computer
I wear contact lenses and need to wear glasses to read small print.
I have been prescribed glasses for reading for 20 years - long distance for 5. Yes I can't manage without the reading ones now but I have never used the long distance (except for driving) and keep them in the car. My Mother started relying on hers as soon as they were prescribed and within a few weeks was entirely dependant on hers. I sometimes think that this would have been the case for me too. I don't get headaches or have problems viewing TV so see no need to be 'trapped' into buying something I don't need. I have a sight test regularly but only buy reasonably priced glasses (plus I keep many £shop pairs all over the house because I can't be fussed with having to locate my 'best' for small tasks).
I need my reading glasses for Reading, sewing, threading needles, computer work, and reading food labels in the supermarket.
I wear varifocals, so have no need for extra reading glasses. I couldn't do without them!
Reading instructions etc on food, reading, changing granddaughter's nappy etc etc
I do have reading glasses - which I mainly use when I'm on my laptop/work computer. They aren't very strong though, so I have a habit of wearing them around my house/the office!
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