The last upgrade I bought was some $10 memory.
I bought a $30 usb stick drive the other day as additional backup for my 30,000+ collection of family photos. Most of those are from digital cameras, the rest scans of negatives, slides, and prints. (For a long time I had my film developed at Costco and got the digital pictures on CD.) I may have been motivated by all the disaster news, thinking it would be handy to have something I could quickly put in my pocket if I had to flee this place.
All the boxes of old photos and scrapbooks would fill a pickup truck... 
The last "new" conventional computer I bought was a shopworn 386 for $300. (The 486 had just been released...) Since then I've diverted many computers from the e-waste stream, maybe upgrading them by maxing out the memory, but that's it.
A computer that's been rendered frustratingly slow by Microsoft Windows cruft becomes quite usable again running Linux.
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