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How to keep your glasses from fogging up

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So it’s the first day of February, one of the coldest months of the year. To mark the occasion, here’s a tip for keeping your eyeglasses from fogging up when coming indoors from the cold:

Walk in backwards.

I have no idea why this works, but it does. It’s a trick I learned when I was a kid delivering newspapers in Lower Sackville. My glasses would always fog up when I entered people’s homes on cold nights to collect paper money. One night, one of my bespectacled customers suggested I try it.

People have been looking at me funny ever since.

Written by dmisener

February 1st, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Posted in glasses, winter

4 Responses to 'How to keep your glasses from fogging up'

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  1. They’re still fogging as you walk in backwards. It’s just staring out into the snowstorm you can’t tell?

    oliver

    3 Feb 07 at 1:27 pm

  2. Are you kidding? Does that seriously work?

    I’m always afraid on tripping on something and falling … and giving myself a concussion. Which might give me more to worry about than a pair of fogged glasses :S .

    Diane

    8 Feb 07 at 12:51 pm

  3. It totally works. For me, anyway.

    dmisener

    15 Feb 07 at 5:17 pm

  4. I just got glasses today, and they have fogged up/gotten dirty quite a few times. You know what I do? I run them under cold water, then spread BABY SHAMPOO on them, and finally rinse and dry. IT WORKS!!

    Alli

    27 Jan 08 at 6:56 pm

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