Our phone screens keep cracking. Oh sure, we know to carry a case. We know to protect our phones, but we’re still cracking our shiny glass bricks at a rate that might frighten you. So, what’s your guess for the number of phones that are getting smashed each hour, just in the U.S. alone?

A few hundred? More. Let me help — replacing those screens cost consumers $3.4 billion across the past year. On an hourly basis during work time, that’s $1.7 million being spent on replacements and fixes.

We've all seen people rocking the cracked screen look.

More than a thousand, you guess? Getting warmer. The cost basis I just told you about is a little misleading. That’s because new research via SquareTrade suggests 65 percent of folks avoid fixing a cracked screen, and 38 percent of cracked screen owners don’t get their phones fixed at all. We’ve all seen people rocking the cracked screen look. Sometimes a phone can keep pushing through ok if the display still works. Sometimes it’s a case of glass-in-your-finger until your next paycheck.