Hohoho My Dollar Shop Reading Spectacles Disaster

Last calendar week I ran to the dollar store to selection upwardly an extra dyad of reading spectacles to move along inwards my studio. If you lot follow my spider web log as well as my jewelry adventures, you lot likely already know that ane of my biggest jewelry making hints is to move along a dyad or ii of reading spectacles on your workbench to assist you lot run across what you lot are doing when you lot are working amongst tiny components. This tip is particularly helpful if you lot are similar me as well as don't wearable prescription glasses. H5N1 dyad of reading spectacles tin live a swell assist 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 about other an extra pair, as well as then I figured I would snag a inexpensive dyad at my local dollar store, since I had noticed them in that place inwards the past.

So I spotted the reading spectacles display, industrial plant life the magnification I was looking for, tried a dyad on, as well as checked out at the register. All within almost 3 minutes.

Wow, solely ane dollar for such an of import tool! Of course of teaching at this betoken I was feeling pretty swell almost myself as well as my amazing cheapskate shopping wizardry. Until....

...Until I got abode as well as wore them for the outset time. I sat downward to solder about jewelry, grabbed my novel reading glasses, pose them on, as well as started to work. But wait, what was that smell?

Within simply a few minutes I started to honor a potent chemical smell coming from my glasses. Well, I thought, they are cheapie reading glasses, as well as then I approximate they odor a petty chip 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 solely 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 wearable them ane to a greater extent than time, to run across if the odor was fading. Nope. It wasn't going away. But these spectacles weren't simply smelly, they truly made my eyes burn. Something was truly incorrect amongst these glasses.

I googled "dollar store reading spectacles smell" as well as upwardly popped a few articles almost things NOT to purchase at a dollar store... the outset article I read was from Woman's Day periodical as well as was almost 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, light-headed straws as well as window clings, as well as these items had about pretty scary descriptions. Some included cancer-causing chemicals inwards plastic, toxic levels of DEHP, PVC as well as chlorine. (read it here)

After realizing that something was truly incorrect amongst the glasses, I didn't know what to create amongst them. I didn't desire to throw them inwards the trash because I didn't desire their toxicity landing upwardly inwards the Earth. Do I post them to the EPA? Return them to the store? I'm all the same non just certain what to create amongst them, but I'll figure it out soon.

But my whole betoken is this: Remember, anything that you lot are putting against your peel you lot 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 utilisation tons of cosmetics or beauty treatments. I worry almost toxic chemicals as well as fumes. I imagine people going through cancer treatments due to exposure to toxic, cancer-causing substances. Situations that possibly could accept been prevented. It happens every day.

There are labels on as well as then many products alarm us of unsafe substances. People utilisation those items all the fourth dimension without a 2nd idea or security precaution. They solely intend of the hither as well as right away as well as well I require this handling for my skin/hair/nails/for cleaning/what-have-you right now.

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

Okay as well as then I'm variety of passionate almost the discipline as well as larn a petty carried away, but it's important. Isn't it?

What create you lot think?

Have a swell week!

Laura