Does anyone else hate buying things these days?

I hate buying things ( and always have) because it inevitably goes to rat **** either during delivery (like yesterday / today's farce) or is DOA when it gets here.
 
Grimley said:
I've not bought anything that expensive for months now. Most I've spent this year is on a Motherboard for my nephews upgrade. The other reason is I've had to go to a private dentist to have 2 root canals at £850 each because both of my lower molars (the ones I have left) have cracked or broken. This is common for men in their mid 50's apparently but I still think said dentist is robbing me despite the fact I've had toothache both sides of my mouth at the same time in the last year.

Still with that at least there's only 2 choices - spend the money & get it done or live with the pain (Teeth, pain in the sinus & the feeling that your sinuses are blocked but you dont have a cold, sometimes headaches)
Because of Lockdown & saving for said root canals the only thing I've been buying is coffee beans (I buy when I get discounts) bottled water, milk and biccies (Shortbread and Jaffa cakes)

I'm now in the market for a new mobile phone as I change phones every 2 1/2 years roughly, last change was down to my old sony experia Z3 developed a touchscreen fault, my choice at the time to replace it was a Nokia 8 and that was a no brainer at the time in late 2017. Fast forward to now & as others have said here the Chinese have flooded the market with new models being released all the time. It's doing my head in on what to buy as the dilemma I have is:

Do I buy a cheap Mobile & keep it for a year?
Or spend a little more & hope it lasts the distance that I normally keep a phone for.

What I don't like is these phones are now so big, its like an arms race for who can make the biggest phone with the longest lasting battery & quickest charging, not important to me as I put my phone on charge before bed when I think it needs charging & when I get up in the night for the loo, job done.

Another thing is I keep my phone in my shirt pocket for work, if phones get any bigger & too heavy they wont fit in that pocket or the pocket stitching wont take the weight & phone goes clattering to the hard floor = broken. :(:mad:
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IPhone SE... Yes its Apple but its the best small phone.
 
/\/\/\ I'm not an iphone person, been on android since about 2011. I own a 2nd hand 1st gen ipad mini which I've owned for about 5 years now & thats as far as my Apple ownership will go.
 
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