Buying contact lenses

We realized that Carla had only a few sets of contacts left, so we started looking into buying contacts in Sydney. The contacts are really expensive here, at least if you try to buy them from an optometrist. Sydney does not have a Costco store where, like in Canada, we can buy contacts at a great discount.

The only way we could buy contacts seemed to be through an optometrist. It has been over two years since Carla's last eye exam, so she needed to go for an eye exam. To get an eye exam and a prescription for contact lenses costs about AUD$120. And for what? For an optometrist to give us the same prescription that we had received last year. No thank you. Our eyes have not been changing for a while now, so paying $120 was out of the question.

After a quick search, I found about 10 websites selling contacts online in Australia. Then, I removed the expensive websites and was left with 8 websites. Following that, I removed websites requiring a proof of current valid prescriptions and was left with three websites. Not bad at all. I then picked the least expensive website (including shipping) and ordered the contacts. Five days later, we have our contacts and have not had to spend any money on the eye exam. How good is that!

We will go get an eye exam in a year or so, but the plan is to by then have health coverage that will cover eye exams. Until then, online ordering it is. By the way, we got the lenses for 50% off from what we would have paid at the optometrist's!