If you're starpointing or just pointing around your room away from reflective objects you don't need goggles. If you're pointing near reflective objects, your face is close to the laser, you're burning stuff, you need to accurately point your laser at something, you're going to be/need to be...
This summer before I got my first high powered laser (50 mW 532 nm) to get a visible beam from a <5 mW 660 nm I would spray compressed air upside down, although it smells terrible.