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If you're like most people and use your phone frequently, it's where you should be spending your money. Something I rely on daily needs to be reliable and well-featured. That isn't to say you necessarily need to spend hundreds on a phone, but you can pick up darn good new phones for about $150. The Moto G7 was $149 through Google Fi.

You'll end up spending more on phone service than the phone itself though, so that's the first consideration. What are the terms of your service currently, and is it meeting your usage needs?

I've got my wife and parents on the same Google Fi plan. $20/mo for the first phone, and $15/month for the others for unlimited voice/text. $1 per 100MB data, which is steep, but my family is on wifi almost all the time. They aren't watching Youtube videos on the bus or anything (don't buses have wifi now?). My wife likes large screens, so I pick up the Pixel XL used for ~$90 on Ebay.