MAKE MONEY: Eyeglasses

By Tom Parker

Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.

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Photograph by Tom Parker

$89.95

Single-vision glasses to correct myopia, from optician.

$1.00

Pinhole glasses made from two half-dollar coins, plus a piece of salvaged brass rod.

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