Every device our family needed for a year was bought refurbished, open box, or not at all, with one deliberate exception. Here is the full ledger, the one problem we hit, and what the year proved about buying new.
One $300 phone, three generations, two weeks each. The teenager, the parent, and the grandparent disagreed about almost everything, and their disagreements are the most honest budget phone review we have ever produced.
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