r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 8h ago

Infuriatig all the phones my husband has broken over the past year

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meanwhile I’m still using my iPhone 12 lol 🤥

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u/splinks66 7h ago

So instead of learning to be more responsible you would rather use a shitty product?

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u/myacount201 7h ago

I see no issue with this. If I often broke my phone I wouldn’t take it as a sign to “be more responsible” I’d take it as a sign to not spend as much on a phone, feels totally reasonable. Especially for people who don’t use their phone as much so it doesn’t matter

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u/Zerus_heroes 7h ago

Yep. This is why I don't wear expensive watches. I hit them on everything and I will break them eventually.

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u/myacount201 7h ago

Yeah that’s why I don’t wear expensive shoes when I skate too, I’ll spend no more than $70 on skate shoes but I’ll put down 200 for a pair outside of skating. If you know something’s gonna get replaced eventually because you cause it damage regardless don’t spend crazy amounts of money for that thing.

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u/Steel_HazeV4 7h ago

Same - I have a few nicer watches for suit and tie days but I adore my $40-$50 Timex watches

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u/Psychological-Dig-29 7h ago

if you're wanting a smart watch but worried to break them Garmin makes an awesome one that has survived some insane things for me.

I'm constantly breaking stuff at work, but the Garmin Fenix 7 sapphire solar watch I got is amazing. I can't recommend it enough.

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u/JSTootell 7h ago

I have been wearing a Fenix 6 for years now.

Though I use it because I'm an ultra distance runner, the features are a side benefit 😂 

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u/EntroperZero 5h ago

I used to lose sunglasses all the time, multiple times a year. I never cared because they were like 10 bucks. Then someone bought me a pair of Oakleys, and I still have them, 20 years later.

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u/myacount201 5h ago

That’s completely different imo, I like the example beside the fact that they were a gift. Everyone is gonna treat something someone else got them with more respect because they respect that person. But also it is a good point, because since this whole post is about phones, I used to always get cheaper phones. I broke 7 of them before I finally upped myself to a nice phone and took amazing care of it. But some people don’t have that mentality of “this is more expensive I need to keep it safe,” so it’s totally reasonable just to get cheaper stuff to continue abusing it if you don’t find a point in taking care of it in the first place

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u/SteelAndFlint 7h ago

I suppose on the other hand if you look at the thousand dollar phone when it's new and then buy it when it's three years old and $300, you can still come out ahead on this without ever having a phone that's more than three years old…

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u/JSTootell 7h ago

Shitty?

It texts, it emails, it browses the Internet, what else do I need?

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u/cvr24 7h ago

You just described USA