One of the things that the Great Workman (see my last post) do not give us as people is universal good vision.  When I was in fifth grade my vision went south and I had start wearing glasses.  A few years later when I went in the eighth grade I tried wearing contacts.  They were hard contacts and I remember walking out of the doctors office being amazed that I could see the leaves on the trees. 

Since they were hard contacts I stopped wearing them within about two weeks.

A few years later disposable contacts came out and I bought my first box of disposable contact lenses for about $100 a box, that included about six contacts in each box and I needed two boxes one for each eye.

The work contact lenses for the next 10 years and the prices really went down and I started to purchase my contact lenses online.  I haven’t worn any contact lenses since 2001 I have LASIK surgery.

I was amazed today to see just how cheap contact lenses have become.  I was looking through a contact lenses site and noticed the prices of the contacts I used to purchase were now down to about $10 a box.

Notice the price of the Acuvue 2 lenses!

When I decided to have LASIK, I partially made my decision based on how much it would cost to keep buying contacts and  glasses over the next 10 years.Prices of drop dramatically and my choice probably would’ve been different if I had made that decision today.