Polaraized sun glasses help.

[Magoo541]

CHeck your local blue coller supply houses.   they often have higher end safety glasses that are 40 ish.  They last for years and no one knows they are safety glass.   

Did that trick when money was tight but they got abused "because they were cheap". Bought one pair if Oaklrys that lasted three years and now I have a pair of Costco special Nike polarized sunglasses that are six months old for ~$30.

[Bic]

these all claim to have polarised lenses: Even the $20 ones.

 http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/catalog/servlet/Search?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&keyword=polarised+lenses&Ns=None&Ntpr=1&Ntpc=1&selectedCatgry=Search+All

[Solus]

you can test to see if the lenses are really polarized....if you have two glasses to test.

hold one lens in front of the other and rotate them till the glasses are at 90 degrees to each other.  

If they are polarized, you should see the light transmission diminish as the lenses are rotated from 0 to 90 degrees.

[PegLeg45]

I've been an Oakley wearer for nearly twenty years......  I have one pair that are almost ten years old (cost $175 in '04) and still going strong, so I figure I got my $$ worth (wife had a pair, bought at the same time, and she lost hers in a dept. store last month  ).

I did luck up last year and went to an optics retailer that was going out of business and got a great deal on a couple of Oakley E-Wires for half price....... I just began wearing a pair of them and think I like them better than my old ones.

If I hadn't found the Oakleys, I had made up my mind to not pay that kind of money for glasses again...... I had looked for good glasses at decent prices and found the optics center in Wal-Mart and Sam's both had Ray Bans, among others, in the non-prescription area for around $40 that looked similar to the Oakleys.