Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

I had a great contact lens scheme that michaels would be proud of.

D&A contact lens by post. You pay monthly and they send lenses in the post, every 3 months for the light user scheme. This entitles you to eye care, contact lens check ups, half price glasses, eye tests etc etc. So I pay something like £11 a month and every 3 months a new box of 30 x 2 lenses arrive.

Except I don't where my lenses that often, so I end up with boxes unopened. Now for the clever bit, you phone up and tell them to put everything on hold and they stop sending the lenses and stop the DD for 6 months at a time. Yet you still get the eye care, the check ups and the half price glasses the whole time. So I'm paying £11 every 6 months for everything.

A winner. Check up today and she tells me that in a year or so I may need different prescription lenses. but I've got boxes of the current ones.:(

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I had a great contact lens scheme that michaels would be proud of.

D&A contact lens by post. You pay monthly and they send lenses in the post, every 3 months for the light user scheme. This entitles you to eye care, contact lens check ups, half price glasses, eye tests etc etc. So I pay something like £11 a month and every 3 months a new box of 30 x 2 lenses arrive.

Except I don't where my lenses that often, so I end up with boxes unopened. Now for the clever bit, you phone up and tell them to put everything on hold and they stop sending the lenses and stop the DD for 6 months at a time. Yet you still get the eye care, the check ups and the half price glasses the whole time. So I'm paying £11 every 6 months for everything.

A winner. Check up today and she tells me that in a year or so I may need different prescription lenses. but I've got boxes of the current ones.:(

That is a great scheme. Dh sadly changes prescription about annually. He is due again. Glasses and lenses are SO expensive.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

A winner. Check up today and she tells me that in a year or so I may need different prescription lenses. but I've got boxes of the current ones.:(

Hoisted by your own petard

JonnyBravo

silvercar wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Thanks for your "understanding".

:rotfl:

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

That is a great scheme. Dh sadly changes prescription about annually. He is due again. Glasses and lenses are SO expensive.

It seems a great scheme, and something that now I’ve had the ‘you’re due a check-up’ from Specsavers, I may look into. I have never walked out of there less than £300 lighter :eek:

Wheezy_2

Went to see 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' by Eugene O'Neill in Richmond Theatre on Saturday evening.(part of my b-day pressie ) The play was ok, David Suchet was really good.


This one:

http://www.atgtickets.com/Long-Day-s-Journey-Into-Night-Tickets/45/281/

Wrong night to go into Richmond though, it was full of drunk Welsh rugby fans

vivatifosi

Morning all. My laptop has been restored - DH has put in a new Dell keyboard and new mouse buttons to replace the ones I wrecked. Total cost: £26 and about 2 hours of his time. Woohoo, no having to buy a whole new lappy!

Have posted over at the other place now I can finally get in.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Not that you need any help but I always find speaking in a mirror to articulate helps me decide if the answer in my head is suitable or not. Makes me look a bit nuts though :rotfl:

Interview prep is not the problem, it's the 5 minutes before you walk in when you go..oh...:eek:

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morning all. My laptop has been restored - DH has put in a new Dell keyboard and new mouse buttons to replace the ones I wrecked. Total cost: £26 and about 2 hours of his time. Woohoo, no having to buy a whole new lappy!

Have posted over at the other place now I can finally get in.

Hurrah! :j:j:j:j

Edit....how did misskool get in my post?

iB1

silvercar wrote: »

I had a great contact lens scheme that michaels would be proud of.

D&A contact lens by post. You pay monthly and they send lenses in the post, every 3 months for the light user scheme. This entitles you to eye care, contact lens check ups, half price glasses, eye tests etc etc. So I pay something like £11 a month and every 3 months a new box of 30 x 2 lenses arrive.

Except I don't where my lenses that often, so I end up with boxes unopened. Now for the clever bit, you phone up and tell them to put everything on hold and they stop sending the lenses and stop the DD for 6 months at a time. Yet you still get the eye care, the check ups and the half price glasses the whole time. So I'm paying £11 every 6 months for everything.

A winner. Check up today and she tells me that in a year or so I may need different prescription lenses. but I've got boxes of the current ones.:(

I do exactly the same thing - although I have more expensive gas permeable lenses, so my DD is £25 per month. However, my prescription hasn't changed for about 8 years, so I have a nice stockpile which I then use up after suspending the DDs for 6 months. It does work fantastically well :T

JonnyBravo

Wheezy wrote: »

Wrong night to go into Richmond though, it was full of drunk Welsh rugby fans

Just be grateful you weren't there the week before. You might have run into some very drunk Worcester Warriors fans. Lord alone knows what state they'd have been in if they'd actually won