I would like to thank all my readers, wherever you are (though most appear to be in the United States :)), for your continuing support and encouragement.  I love getting feedback (preferably good!) so keep the comments coming!  And if you have suggestions for future topics, drop me a comment or send me a tweet (@valshopaholic) and I will do my best to meet your needs 🙂

Happy 2012!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.