The UPS guy dropped them off this afternoon. I ordered them last week from BestBuyEyeglasses and they shipped them out via UPS. I got an emailed order confirmation, a shipping confirmation and even the UPS “Delivered” notification which arrived as the truck was pulling away.

The packaging made me laugh and impressed my “green” wife. They arrived in a simple corrugated cardboard box, and the cushioning was being handled by a few pages of the New York Times Super Bowl Sunday edition. The frames came in the Shuron-labeled plastic bag inside a simple eyeglasses slip case my grandfather might have used.

That’s fine with me. I’ve got eyeglass cases coming out of my ears.

I’m heading in for an eye appointment next week and these will be shipped off to 39DollarGlasses immediately afterwards for a simple pair of lenses. I’m already looking forward to getting them back.

Shuron frames are going to cost more than the frames I’ve become used to from 39DollarGlasses, Goggles4U, Optical4Less, EyeBuyDirect and others, but there is a place in my growing collection for a couple of pairs of these truly iconic frames — especially when they’re still dramatically less expensive than the crap at Lens Crafters.

These frames are all-American, like the tattered Levi jeans in my dresser, the 14-year old BMW in the garage (OK, so I  have an affinity for a few old German things as well), and listening to the baseball game on the radio in the garage.

I started flipping through the pages of Shuron eyeglass frames at BestBuyEyeglasses and had a couple of them catch my eye. In particular this one — the Shuron Freeway,

in “Crystal”,

but mostly in Demi Gray!

So I said to myself, “Self? Holy crap! We need a pair of those.” And at about $67, the games began. You may be familiar with another site I’ve had a lot of fun with, GlassyEyes.com — It all started when I broke my glasses and… (you can read more here). Anyway, I got out the trusty ol’ Moleskine and started jotting down Shuron notes. Who has the best deals? How much do they want for lenses? I had to know — and I had to share.

I’ve come up with a few places to compare, and a plan for getting these frames from the online retailers, to our faces in one to three (or four) easy to exciting steps.