Your assumption that I’m smug is gross. I just grew up in a pretty poor family and taking good care of our things was ingrained, for obvious reasons. It always seems crazy to me how many people abuse and have no respect for their possessions.

No it’s not. And misogyny? Wtf? … I just see people everywhere treating their things like shit. People everywhere with thousand-dollar phones with cracked screens, yet I’ve never broken a single screen on a phone. It’s not hard to look after things… But I guess people like you just have more money than sense.

I did, it’s just that our family (including my mother) looked after our things and the phone never got ruined…

Two things:

1. the land-line phone handset cord probably got less use than your charger cable.
2. look after your things!!! I have never had a USB cable of any kind end up this way. This kind of damage only comes from abusing the heck out of them.