@QasimRashid This is such an important point and, to a certain extent, I think, can be extended to nice things as well. So often I feel really weird whenever I'm able to buy something nice for myself either through financial aid from being a student, scrimping/saving for a long time or, (carefully,) using payment plans. If I'm truly poor, I shouldn't be able to do this, right? I shouldn't be able to get something that isn't the bare minimum, even if it would quantitatively help me/improve my quality of life somehow in a measurable way? We have associated poverty with having nothing in a beyond rock bottom sense, and while many don't have much--I certainly don't--having something does not magically make the fact that money is extremely tight go away. It just means that, once in a while, you manage to find a way to get something you need, even if that need is slightly impractically shaped.