Back in Sep­tem­ber, I started wear­ing glasses occa­sion­ally for com­put­ing.  Since then, I have been get­ting used to the idea of wear­ing glasses while read­ing and work­ing at the com­puter.  The main prob­lem I have faced has been keep­ing them clean.  I think this would not be as big of a deal if I wore them all the time, but because I con­stantly find myself remov­ing them and putting them back on, they get a lot more han­dling than most full time glasses-wearers.  In addi­tion to this, I came to the real­iza­tion today that ever since I chopped off my hair, I have been putting “hair stuff” in (Bum­ble & Bum­ble Sumo Tech, for those that care) and my habit of prop­ping the glasses up on top of my head when some­one comes in to talk to me causes some of that to lightly deposit on the glasses.  After a few times, this smears up the inside (or, rather, the me-facing side) of the lenses.

I received a nice microfiber lens clean­ing cloth when I got the glasses, but that is start­ing to get grimy.  I usu­ally wrap my glasses in that before putting them in the metal tube case I carry them in.  A coworker uses alcohol-based lens clean­ing wipes, which mostly work.  They seem like they clean every­thing but the hair cream, which just gets smeared around — though the microfiber cloth picks it up.

So my ques­tions to the glasses-wearers out there are these:

• Is there a good, rec­om­mended, way of clean­ing this microfiber cloth, or should I just treat it as dis­pos­able and start with a new one every month or two?
• Is there a bet­ter way of clean­ing glasses and keep­ing them clean?
• It’s almost an uncon­scious motor-reflex to prop the glasses up on top of my head, where they come in con­tact with the per­ilous hair stuff.  Is there a bet­ter way of doing this?  Some­times I only bring them up to my fore­head, but that does not always work, not to men­tion look­ing and feel­ing a lit­tle silly.  I have also tried push­ing them to the end of my nose and peer­ing over the frames, like a bad MySpace photo, but that does not always come nat­u­rally nor is super-comfortable.  Maybe I just need to retrain myself to com­pletely take them off instead of prop­ping them on my head?

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