I got a bit of a surprise this weekend when I looked at the stats on my blogs. It turns out, a major personal finance blog, The Consumerist, linked to one of the posts I put up on The Dog Ate My Wallet. Since that post was my yearly rant against commercials that claim luxury cars are good gifts, my post also linked to last year’s posts here. Traffic to all my sites went up considerably, though it was most evident on The Dog Ate My Wallet. My previous traffic high had been 35 views. On Friday, I had 1,390.