Hope!! My Dollar Shop Reading Spectacles Disaster

Last calendar week I ran to the dollar store to selection upwards an extra duo of reading spectacles to travel on inward my studio. If yous follow my weblog as well as my jewelry adventures, yous in all likelihood already know that i of my biggest jewelry making hints is to travel on a duo or ii of reading spectacles on your workbench to assistance yous come across what yous are doing when yous are working amongst tiny components. This tip is peculiarly helpful if yous are similar me as well as don't vesture prescription glasses. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 duo of reading spectacles tin live a keen assistance when making jewelry.

You tin larn them at whatever drugstore or grocery store, but I didn't desire to pay the 20 bucks for yet approximately other an extra pair, as well as then I figured I would snag a inexpensive duo at my local dollar store, since I had noticed them at that spot inward the past.

So I spotted the reading spectacles display, constitute the magnification I was looking for, tried a duo on, as well as checked out at the register. All within most 3 minutes.

Wow, alone i dollar for such an of import tool! Of course of written report at this betoken I was feeling pretty keen most myself as well as my amazing cheapskate shopping wizardry. Until....

...Until I got dwelling as well as wore them for the get-go time. I sat downward to solder approximately jewelry, grabbed my novel reading glasses, position them on, as well as started to work. But wait, what was that smell?

Within only a few minutes I started to expose a rigid chemical smell coming from my glasses. Well, I thought, they are cheapie reading glasses, as well as then I guess they odor a fiddling fleck similar novel plastic. I tried to ignore the odor as well as kept on working. Within a few to a greater extent than minutes, it seemed similar the odor was getting stronger as well as stronger. And non alone that, my eyes were starting to burn!

Could these reading spectacles live giving off toxic fumes that bothered my eyes? They had to be. There was no other explanation. I tried to vesture them i to a greater extent than time, to come across if the odor was fading. Nope. It wasn't going away. But these spectacles weren't only smelly, they genuinely made my eyes burn. Something was genuinely incorrect amongst these glasses.

I googled "dollar store reading spectacles smell" as well as upwards popped a few articles most things NOT to purchase at a dollar store... the get-go article I read was from Woman's Day magazine as well as was most the 10 most toxic items at a dollar store, as well as though reading spectacles weren't on the listing - lots of other plastic things were - such equally plastic kitchen utensils, dizzy straws as well as window clings, as well as these items had approximately pretty scary descriptions. Some included cancer-causing chemicals inward plastic, toxic levels of DEHP, PVC as well as chlorine. (read it here)

After realizing that something was genuinely incorrect amongst the glasses, I didn't know what to create amongst them. I didn't desire to throw them inward the trash because I didn't desire their toxicity landing upwards inward the Earth. Do I post them to the EPA? Return them to the store? I'm nevertheless non precisely certain what to create amongst them, but I'll figure it out soon.

But my whole betoken is this: Remember, anything that yous are putting against your peel yous are also putting within of your body. I read that years ago, as well as it ever stuck amongst me.

I don't dye my pilus or job tons of cosmetics or beauty treatments. I worry most toxic chemicals as well as fumes. I imagine people going through cancer treatments due to exposure to toxic, cancer-causing substances. Situations that peradventure could accept been prevented. It happens every day.

There are labels on as well as then many products alert us of unsafe substances. People job those items all the fourth dimension without a 2nd idea or security precaution. They alone mean value of the hither as well as at i time as well as well I take away this handling for my skin/hair/nails/for cleaning/what-have-you right now.

It's such a self-contradiction when people fuss most buying as well as eating organic foods as well as yet inward the same breath they larn chemic based beauty treatments position onto their bodies...which province upwards within of their bodies, inward their organs, inward each of their cells, etc.

Okay as well as then I'm variety of passionate most the champaign of written report as well as larn a fiddling carried away, but it's important. Isn't it?

What create yous think?

Have a keen week!

Laura