I wear ridiculously large sunglasses.

Fortunately, my head is normal sized so I don’t end up looking like Rachel Zoe. And if you don’t know who Rachel Zoe is please don’t bother to look her up because it’s bad enough that someone thought she was relevant enough to get a tv show that we don’t need to prop her up with any google search stats. She’s a lollipop head, emaciated “stylist” who wears clothes that all seem to be recently shorn from a wooly water buffalo and the most godawful shoes the world has ever seen. Enough said.

I also wear regular glasses, at night and if I run out of saline, which is like once a year. The running out of saline happens once a year. Night happens slightly more frequently.

It’s convenient that I don’t wear my regular glasses often because I am not very good at taking care of them. Say, on a scale of 1 to 10 if 1 was “put them in the garbage disposal and then the toilet” and 10 is “keep them in a safe place,” I’m like a 2. Maybe a 3.

I wear sunglasses almost every day. Even when it’s not sunny, although sometimes I wear them as a headband which I realize I should have stopped doing sometime around 1986 but they don’t squish that spot behind my ears the way other headbands do and I like having my hair pulled back but not in a haphazard MomTail.

I can’t, therefore, buy nice sunglasses. If I were capable of taking care of them, I’d buy one of these Kate Spades:

Kate Spade Veronica Sunglasses

Or these Kate Spades:

Kate Spade Evan Sunglasses

But I’m not. So instead, I buy about 10 pairs of $8 plastic sunglasses a year. These are the most recent. Other than what my husband said, which was something exactly like, “You look like an insect or a car with huge headlights,” and he didn’t mean “headlights” in a good way, I’ve had more compliments on these cheapies than any of their predecessors in years.

My Kate Spade look-alikes

Best part…I bought them in a store I’ve never been in before in my life. NY and Company. Although actually, maybe it’s the worst part, because now when I trash these I’ll feel compelled to go back in there and I’m dangerously allergic to pre-ripped jeans and tackiness. Maybe if I bring an epi-pen?

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