I try to adjust my budget for things based on how much time i spend using them. My glasses, bed, phones, and shoes have very little (relative to my budget) expenses spared. My most recent purchase was a pixel 8, back when it was relatively new around at around 700$. I plan on putting grapheneos on it at some point and keeping it for as long as i can reasonably get away with.

Before that, it was the samsung s20fe 5g, also at around seven or eight hundred. I used it without a case for two years and the screen broke too early for me to be entirely happy with it. Im treating my pixel a lot better in hopes that doesnt happen again.