I wish I still needed to wear eyeglasses, I wore them from a very young age up until I was around 20 and unlike a lot of kids — I actually loved wearing them, especially as a teenager, they were just another accessory and way to express myself.

I was sad when I was told it was redundant me wearing them, and as an adult I no longer had my parents to pay for them for me so I stopped wearing them.

That is until a few years ago when I discovered Zenni Optical, an online eyeglasses specialist who have had much recognition in recent times, even getting a nod in the New York Times.

They sell frames for as little as $8…at that prices, who cares that I don’t need to wear them? I have already had 3 pairs off of them with clear lenses and I am sure I will buy more in the future also.

I am tempted to go for these ones next, they are so delightfully nerdy that I fell in love with them the second I saw them. However I am not sure I could really pull off the look — I want to look nerdy cool, not nerdy nerdy.

My family should know by now that I am the online bargains expert, I run a bargain website and spend a good portion of my days on certain well known bargain websites. I also know all the best places to get voucher codes and where to go to get cashback and rebates on pretty much every thing — from car insurance to eyeglasses.

Yet still my mum goes out and buys things without talking to me about it first. She says that she doesn’t like to bother me, but I wish she would because it causes me actual distress when I see people paying way more than they have to for things.

She recently got some new prescription glasses that cost her a rather whopping £180. If she’d just asked I would have told her about Optical4less.com where you can get top quality ones for as little as $15 — that’s about £10 at the current exchange rate — quite the difference for the exact same product huh?

I think I would have had to sell her on the quality, Optical4Less’ prices are so cheap that I think they shoot themselves in the foot a little because people assume cheap = rubbish. But at just $15 it is surely worth taking the chance? Everyone I know who has used them has been perfectly happy