Whomever may be reading this, I've recently found incredible luck with dawn dish soap.
Run glasses and hands under water
Put glasses to the side and lather dish soap on your fingers.
Using your lathered fingers, gently apply soap to glasses
Put glasses to the side and rinse off your hands so they're not still soapy
Reduce water pressure so it's gentle, constant stream of water.
Rinse off glasses
I only really clean my glasses once a month ish. Maybe twice. Of course if I smear my glasses or it's an eventful week, I clean as needed. That's just how often I clean them.
I have a box of a few hundred disposable glasses cleaning wipes I just stuff everywhere. Was like $20 on Amazon and my best purchase ever. Been using it for months. Life changing.
The problem is you wanna wash off any potential grit with running water before cleaning your glasses, otherwise those wipes will still scratch them. I never use glasses cleaning wipes for that reason.
I got some from Costco. Fantastic purchase. I've been wearing glasses daily for less than a year at this point and feel dread when I don't have one of these wipes handy and need to clean them
I picked up this trick from a reddit comments years ago and it's a godsend, perfectly clean smudge-free glasses, and they last longer as you're less likely to scratch them.
i've had glasses for a little over a year now and this is what i too have been doing since beginning. i thought it would be bad for the lenses and remove the coating but kept on doing it anyway and they are totally fine. i keep a soft cloth in my pocket for little smudges though.
Swamp Sight:
A creature with this feat may peer through dirty lenses and objects as if they had true sight and dark vision. If a smudge or other blemish obstructs view, the creature may see through it as if it were not there.
The longer you wear them, the easier it is. I didn't get glasses until I was over 20. I wasn't used to them, so I would have to clean them about every hour. Now that I've been wearing them for the better part of ten years, I don't even have to clean them every day.
The inside part of your shirt around your waist is usually clean enough to just wipe your glasses clean without any cleaner. Rub in small circular motions until you get the entire lense
I've found that denim does a rather good job. I actually have a couple cleaning cloths cut from old jeans, but I mostly just use the leg of whatever pair I'm wearing.
I think, as another user here pointed out, that it’s more about how long someone has been wearing glasses and therefore how often they accidentally touch them. I’ve only been wearing glasses for about 6 months, so I accidentally touch them several times a day. I have to wipe them clean each time, and I need to wash them clean once or twice a week as the oils build up.
I've recently started wearing sports goggles for hockey as I can't do contacts. I feel this one a lot. The fogging up and the constant sweating on the lens is never ending..
Working through some of that now but the sweating and then cleaning the sweat off is making it worse. Still need to figure out a system where cleaning them doesn't invite the fogging after. I think if I never sweated on them I would be fine for fogging up.
I just learned to ignore anything that isnt a significant, sight obstructing smudge, cause I got tired of wiping every drop of sweat or accidental finger brush off my lenses.
Wore glasses for almost my whole life. Never touch them with your hands, don't splatter foods when eating, position them so your lashes don't touch them if possible. I always keep some microfiber cloths and lens cleaning solution at my desk.
But got lasik over a year ago. Sure the dry eyes are a pain in dry weather, but it's nicer than not having to worry about smudging my glasses. Also, even though there is some light flaring at night if my eyes are dry, it's not as bad as when I get them with glasses that have microscratches on them.
I still notice when other people who have glasses have smudges all over them and they seem to not be bothered by it. Even I'm bother by seeing it imagining how bad everything must look. Hell, even a speck of dust annoys me while wearing glasses if it's in the right spot.