My very best measure tools are in a top drawer.. but I mean all the way into the house, upstairs, at the desk with the big green pad.
This is where stuff like calibration gauge blocks, electronic digital micrometers, and suchlike are brought out.
In the garage shop, sure, I do have one cheapo digital caliper left, and that be the one I added value to by reworking it with some "improvements", by way of a replacement display stripped from the second "cheapo". They looked identical, but were not. The quality of the second was so abysmal, I complained, and the sale was cancelled, with no need to return it, so it became the donor only for it's display, which I transplanted into the first. I now have a reasonably decent "cheaper" caliper, and a pile of "caliper bits" which might even insult the other scrap in the box. Arguably, I should not have bothered!
BUT
I have taken to using reasonably high quality stuff, even in the shop. My iGaging Absolute OriginCal is not as pricey as a Mitutoyo, but it seems to work like one. It was £55, so think about $74. It's just that some things, like optical flats, 0.001mm electronic micrometers, and calibration gauge blocks are just too precious to use right up near a lathe or bench grinder, amid chips, WD40, way oil, and wire brushes.