I saw they cut my auto-refill discount for my phone plan by $4, raising my phone by from $60 to $64 with the 20-gb hotspot plan. Just another cost on the budget — but with remote work and the library closed it’s kind of important to have Internet at home. That kind of sucks, but I guess everything is going up in price. May 1st my rent is going up too, and I just adjusted my bank to reflect the additional $25 a month. Car insurance is due on Monday. At least I should be getting a good tax-refund and the stimulus check this month, and I think I will be able to otherwise stay the course on my budget and savings. Once office life resumes, I can go back to the more basic data package, that will save money, to offset the cost of bus fares for commuting.

I really hate that my phone sends me stock market updates. It’s just particularly helpful, because I’m not a day trader, and any one day event — or even a year long event — is likely to have much of an impact on savings for retirement or long-term investment.