My wife knew I needed a wallet but not that I had ordered this one, which arrived shortly before my birthday.  The pictured wallet came in a mailer so thin, I doubted it contained anything more than a piece of paper (unfolded).  Then I saw a fake monetary bill etched into a leather material. Tben the transformation of my WTF puzzlement into an OMG moment of recognition.  This was the wallet I had ordered in.a moment of whimsy, not expecting much if anything in return for satisfying my curiosity.  Even after the recent tariffs on Chinese goods, is it possible that some high-quality but cheaply-priced products are still be available to the American consumer?

I opened the wallet and liked it more with each passing minute. Despite its "non-subtle" cover, the wallet is stylishly thin, fits in my back pockets, and offers sufficient room and notches to accommodate my cards and bills.  There's one window (for my driver's license, which I've replaced 3 times just in the past six months! (I blame my frequent visits to Walgreens drive-thrus to fill prescriptions (for my wife and me) requiring identification.  Feeling the heat of impatient drivers in the line behind me, I'm usually attentive to the prescribed product but not to the return of my license--which, if it isn't left behind, slips into the cracks of the car's front seat or ends up in the wash (after being placed in.a shirt pocket).  Any day now I expect to be reunited with all of my lost licenses.  Then, I'll be assured of a spare the next time I lose one.  And a bonus of searching is finding other stuff you've lost--like a costly iPod Touch (unfortunately, after I had purchased another one from Apple).

But because of this wallet, I have reason to hope yesterday's trip to the DMV was my last for the purpose of having my picture taken for yet another replacement of my elusive driver's license.  If the prominent window and tight slots don't serve to protect my my "new" license and remind me of its importance, I'll forswear driving.  Besides the window, the wallet has half a dozen slots for cards and at least two places for concealing card-sized items and memberships my  (like my AFM Card, my ACLU card, my PMLA card, and  and my NRA card--one of which is a lie.  Going beyond these features, the wallet has not one but two separated "long" pockets for unfolded bills.  But there's more!

One of the two long pockets has a tiny zipper (which I failed to see for the first several days).  Unzipping it reveals yet another pocket for long bills (for your $20's, $50's, $100's, and those $1K bills you don't plan spend until that trip to Sweden or the water park at the Wisconsin Dells.  Best of all, the zippered section is the ideal location for one of those alarms that's activated by its complementary app in your iPhone.  (My old wallet was so loose and ratty that the alarm--called a "Tile"--slipped out more frequently than my driver's license.).

Now the hard part.  My birthday present was a genuine leather wallet, wrapped with loving care in a 3-layer silken package which, upon opening, emitted the redolent and unmistakable fragrance of genuine leather.  I then learned that this gift had a price tag that was 25 to 30 times the price of this Hensong US Dollar Bill wallet.  Moreover, the seller was waiting to engrave or burn any initials or words of my choice.

It's a tough.choice.  I certainly won't return the Hengsong wallet (not only is it postage-free, but it's going for ONE buck less than the minimum postage charge for a product without Prime!!).  I'd love to try this wallet for several months, then evaluate its durability.  At its current price, I doubt there's a better value on Amazon.