I always used to turn my phone completely off since the early 1990s. Now I only have one because some financial institutions require me to have a mobile phone,

I always used to turn my phone completely off since the early 1990s. Now I only have one because some financial institutions require me to have a mobile phone, otherwise, I would not own any sort of phone. Phone calls bug me. Texts bug me. Emails bug me. I keep my phone in a Faraday bag, leave it buried way down in a desk drawer. I never see it. It's in the Faraday bag so that no signals go in or out. On the very rare occasions that I MUST use it for those financial institutions, I bring it out for a minute or two to get the pass code. I have to spend $180 per year on something that I use maybe 5 minutes per year. Everything else I do on my VOIP. So I only check stuff out very rarely. People can leave me voice mail and texts there. And just send my email to my desktop, too. And, no way am I going to allow Google and every other company they sell my information to let them know where exactly I am every minute of the day. That's just gross. I know I can't be 100% private these days, but I do what I can.