How does one enter the competition? Have I missed a link to click on?
WORD PAIRS -APRIL 2026 (Old thread full )
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.
How does one enter the competition? Have I missed a link to click on?
I used to thread needles for my mother and now I need someone to do it for me! I keep a cheap pair of reading glasses in the kitchen drawer so that I can read the small print on bottles and packets. 'Use by' dates are a problem.
Using the laptop
I need them for looking at messages on my mobile phone, which is pretty much throughout the day. The instructions on tablets and medicine bottles seem to get smaller all the time! It's a hard job reading them. I spend a lot of time at my computer and the Eyejusters sound the perfect answer to all my problems.
I've tried varifocals & bifocals, but just can't get used to them, therefore have both reading and distance glasses, but get really frustrated swapping them over. I wear my reading glasses around my neck with a cord, but apparently this ruins them. I use these for reading, computer work and my mobile phone, reading labels and instructions, any close work like threading needles, eyebrow plucking, applying make up and endless other things, whereas my distance ones mainly for watching telly and driving, therefore these Eyejusters seem to be the ideal solution!
Handy in a supermarket trying to read the back of packets with tiny print
I use my reading glasses for reading, of course, using my computer/tablet and for when I crocheting and jewellery making. Adjustable lenses would be great as I could then have the close up vision when I need it whilst doing the more intricate tasks.
all the food packaging in the supermarket and recipe books
pc,reading and sewing crafts ,they sound great
I spend all my time hunting for my glasses. I am forever losing them around the house. I can't see them if I'm not wearing them! Does that make sense??
For reading, writing, sewing, knitting, I need my glasses so I can find my other glasses, I need to see the number on the front of the bus so I can put my hand out in time to stop it, I need my glasses to read tiny price tags in the shops. My husband stopped me buying a jacket I thought was a bargain for £40 and it turned out it was actually £400, I would have been so embarrassed at the till. I need my glasses to recognize people in the street who say hello to me and their faces are blurred without my glasses. I need my glasses for the theatre and for the.cinema and for the TV, I need my glasses, please I need my glasses, I really really do need my glasses. Please!!
I have one pair for reading, another for the computer, another pair for cross stitch and embroidery, all these are 'off the shelf readers'. Then there is a pair of prescription varifocals I wear for when out shopping.
Need my reading glasses for all the usual things but mostly for deciphering the small print you find on so many things today, i.e. documents, credit agreements, oil bottles and even the instructions that come with things I've bought!
After macular hole surgery last year I need reading glasses for checking my daft typing. It's quite amusing to see what I have typed or 'itd quote amudong to see whsy I habe tyoed'. See what I mean?!
I have had hard contact lenses for distance vision for 45 years but as I got older began to need reading glasses over them for close up work. Without the lenses I can read or sew without a problem. A few years ago on holiday I met a lady with similar vision who only wore one lens. This gave her one eye for close work the other for distance. When I got home I asked my optician what he thought and he said it was a good idea especially if I could alternate the lenses as it would be healthier for my eyes. I have been doing this for 10 years now. Sadly my near sight continues to get worse and I will soon be needing the reading glasses again - for only for very small print and for threading needles!
looking: at ingredients on labels
instructions
recipes
reading books and magazines _which I love
painting
sewing
and computer operating
most of all filling in forms for all sorts of purposes ,including competions!
reading medicine instruction, i swear they are getting smaller and smaller.
Pretty much everything. Especially the argos catalogue. That thing has shrunk over the years!
Reading,knitting, sewing and writing and working on the computer.
knitting i can hardly see the needles or yarn without them!
What a great idea!
I currently have 3 pairs of cheap supermarket reading glasses dotted around the house and another pair permanently in my handbag The older I get, the more I seem to need them...and the more I seem to mislay them 
Indoors, they're on for reading, writing, using the computer, knitting, sewing, following recipes....My daughter asked me to sew some badges yesterday on to my grandson's Cub jersey , using invisible thread. Just threading the needle was a challenge...requiring
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Outdoors, I need them in the garden, deciphering the small print on the seed packets, bug spray, plant food etc....
Shopping, they're on and off all the time, checking ingredients in the small print etc.
In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything I can do without them 
I have prescription varifocals but I could do with these reading glasses to give to my husband who needs different prescriptions for reading and computer work.
I need my specs, which are bifocal for more and more reasons, instructions on packets and jars being the latest can't see items.
I have a pair on a chain permanently round my neck nowadays as I need them for just about anything close up. I read a lot, draw, write, sew, and go online every day and could not do without my trusty glasses.
I do not presently have glasses. Though some members of my family do. My sister uses her glasses for reading and looking at photographs. Though most people tend to require glasses as they age, my Mum had a friend who never required glasses :- She was reading magazines aged 99 years, and died just about a fortnight before she would have been 100 years old. She was a very cheerful, pleasant woman whom, when we asked her if she was looking forward to her telegram from the Queen ( if / when she reached 100). Would say "a telegram, no. I want to meet her. I think I deserve that for reaching 100". She would have been delighted if she had ever met the Queen, and would have been ever so polite with her. Probably cheering her up, as she did with most people she met. Had a Wonderful disposition.
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