I have more money now than I used to -- not a lot, just enough to buy more than basic necessities now and then -- and one of the weird things that keeps catching me by surprise is now nice people are when you have money. I just got a very cute new wallet (the old one was about 13 years old, and disintegrated along with my phone in the laundry) that was a little pricey, and when it arrived in the mail, there was a hand-written thank you note enclosed with it.

Hand-written! With my name and everything! Signed by someone named Anjali! Oh my God! That's so NICE.

James and I were shopping for jackets a month or so ago. We went into the Diesel store (for the first time in my life seriously considering making a purchase there) and I was stunned to learn that if you like a jacket, but they don't have it in your size, and their sister-store DOES have it in your size, they can have it SHIPPED from the other store! As in, you don't have to get in your car and drive to San Jose -- they'll send it up for you!

That's SO NICE!

So, it turns out, when I was poor and thought that you could be happy without money, I wasn't totally correct.