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Day 1 - Pride. Seven great things about yourself.
Day 2 - Envy. Seven things you lack and covet.
Day 3 - Wrath. Seven things that piss you off.
Day 4 - Sloth. Seven things you neglect to do.
Day 5 - Greed. Seven worldly material desires.

1. A hot tub
2. More than one pair of glasses, in fun colors and styles
3. A really comfy reading/writing chair and worktable
4. A bunch of clothes that fit and look awesome
5. A studio of my own
6. A central system that contains ALL our music, and a way to play it easily in each room
7. A house I never have to move from again

Day 6 - Gluttony. Seven guilty pleasures.
Day 7 - Lust. Seven love secrets.

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We matched on #1. I need new reading glasses, but am waiting a year due to the dental bills this year eating up the flexible medical spending.

I sit on an aluminum folding chair at an unfinished-wood computer table. For a while I had a real comfy office chair, cost under $100 at Staples; then I got rid of it after reading the news story about someone dying after being impaled when the hydraulic mechanism to lift and lower it malfunctioned and became a missile. I have no carpets and minimum-cushion furniture because I am allergic to dust mites. I have enough clothes, mostly for work and not suitable for very polite society.

I hope you get the space of your own. I used to fantasize about it when my husband's stuff was piled everywhere, and there is a definite upside to living alone. I'm with you on the moving bit... I will probably move within a year (gotta) and then again (wanna) within 5 years, but after that hope to not have to again for a good 20.

When my ex and I rented the Cheapest House in Davis ($500 for a 4-bedroom place), one summer we had an extra bedroom we couldn't fill, so we just paid the extra rent and I adopted it. We had a single bed and a desk we stuck in there, and I made it my writing/reading/painting room. It was HEAVENLY and I've always wanted to do it again. We will someday!

I never knew that about chair hydraulics... I've had those chairs fall apart, but never explosively. What a way to go!

#1- I was skeptical, but now I've ordered from www.zennioptical.com 3x and had perfect results each time. The glasses took between 10-18 days to arrive (10 days, 16 days, 18 days).

Thanks! I'll look into it!

Holy COW those are cheap! Do you have bifocals? (I think you did, but I'm not positive...)

I have always fantasized about having more than one pair of glasses... thanks SO MUCH!

Do you get any discount for referring me? I don't see a way to do that, thought I'd ask...

no referral bonus and yes to bifocals...I have 7 pairs of glasses now! One that I have had for years and 2 sets of 3 from Zenni. Love them all.

So you don't get your prescription checked? I know my eyes have been changing over the last few years (the joy of gettin' old)... I wonder if they've settled down enough to go ahead and get a few pairs.

I can't link to a particular pair, or I'd show you the first ones I'm getting. I think the item number is 362729, maybe it's findable that way?

I went to CostCo for my prescription and specifically asked them to measure the distance between my pupils for the Zenni order. I have to get new scrips every year for contact lenses anyway.

I think eye doctors will give you that measurement. I've been wanting to order a 'cheap' pair of prescription sunglasses, although i'm not sure i got that measurement at my last eye appointment.

I have two pairs of really nice glasses - a almost-not-there pair, and a stylish thicker frame pair. Neither one was cheap, but, i have to say, the overall expenditure spread out over all the years i've worn them have been entirely worth while. Since i wear glasses pretty much all the time, i really appreciate that i have some that i genuinely like, not just put up with. It is, in some ways, a simple pleasure, but it is a very real pleasure.

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