How to keep your glasses from fogging up

Posted: February 1st, 2007 | Author: dmisener | Filed under: glasses, winter |

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.

6 Comments on “How to keep your glasses from fogging up”

  1. 1 oliver said at 1:27 pm on February 3rd, 2007:

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

  2. 2 Diane said at 12:51 pm on February 8th, 2007:

    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 .

  3. 3 dmisener said at 5:17 pm on February 15th, 2007:

    It totally works. For me, anyway.

  4. 4 Alli said at 6:56 pm on January 27th, 2008:

    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!!

  5. 5 David said at 9:50 pm on December 5th, 2008:

    The reason that works is becouse of a draft you create when walking backwards which warms the glasses evenly, thus preventing the fog reaction.
    ps. It works better the faster you walk in backwards.

  6. 6 Don Rogerson said at 12:14 pm on January 18th, 2009:

    I tried it. I tried it at Wal-Mart. I tried it on a busy day at Wal-Mart.

    It didn’t work the first time, and after being asked to leave it didn’t work after the sixth time.

    I going to try a clear plastic bag next, making certain that it is not tied to securely around my neck.. wouldn’t want to Kick It even in the name of science eh?

    Don R
    In Canada

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