Groceries: $369.35
Dining: $55.58
Starbucks: $35.55

Total: $460.48

That is pretty good, compared to other months (I think). I'll have to go back and take a look. The analytical side of me can't wait to create all sorts of custom reports and graphs in Quicken to compare spending throughout the year. But I only have 6 months worth of data right now, so I'm holding off on that little project.

Edited to add other totals:

Jan = $486.55 (326 + 131 + 29.55)
Feb = $495.51 (351.33 + 100.28 + 43.90)
Mar = $713.33 (415.81 + 292.02 + 5.50)
Apr = $516.21 (310.72 + 151.05 + 54.44)
May = $493.98 (277.11 + 182.32 + 34.55)

I did something different in June - I went to the grocery store more often, as opposed to less often, and I think it helped. Isn't that funny? I think the advice is to limit your trips, but for us, it meant choosing more fresh food that suited our mood that evening, thereby reducing our meals out. We also got taken out to dinner once by my parents, so we had a couple of nice meals out but only paid for one of them. Our anniversary celebration got postponed, so that will show up in July's totals.

The contract arrived for DD's new school, so I'll be writing a hefty check today. They have payment plans, but those have fees associated with them, so we're going to pay all at once and then work to rebuild that account. The interest we would have earned in now way would exceed the fees we'd have to pay. Even just breaking the payment up into two payments would cost an extra $100, IIRC.

I have a lunch meeting today, and happily people agreed to brown bag it. I really didn't want to go out if we could just bring our own lunches.

I also have a potential tutoring student. I'll be directing her studies in Algebra II over the summer, and it looks like we'll meet once or twice a week. From her mother's description of her work habits and level of self-startingness, I'm going to suggest we start out at twice a week and go from there. I'm trying to figure out how to deal with prep time. I will be putting in some time behind the scenes with planning (and possibly correcting work), but I don't know how much yet.