March has been the craziest month ever for my blog.  Of course, I am very thankful for all the traffic and new visitors that have come my way!  Switching hosts was pretty scary to me, but luckily it all went without a hitch and now I am very happy not worrying about my hosting going down.  The stats are a little skewed because I switched hosts in the middle of the month. Here are the most popular posts for March:  Unique Uses for Baking Soda How to Avoid Prepayment Penalties No ‘Poo Shampoo Alternative (AKA I am a dirty hippy) Dish Soap Recipe The Ultimate Laundry Detergent Recipe What does $1 Trillion Dollars Look Like? Make your own Wool Dryer Balls Cloth Toilet Paper And the top referrers: Thank you very much! Wide Open Wallet! The Frugal Girl Sense to Save M is for Money Money Saving Mat

First things first, head over to Wide Open Wallet for the Carnival of Personal Finance, where Ashley was kind enough to include my post, How to Avoid Prepayment Penalties, in the editor’s picks!  Thanks so much! Also, I have the winner of my blog giveaway! Congrats, Kacie! I’ll be emailing you to work out the details. Miss M and Mat, I’ll make you two the 125×125 buttons too! Look for an email from me! Thanks for participating!

Have you ever wondered what a trillion dollars looks like?  I’ll show you today.  Someone forwarded this to me in an email, and I thought I’d share it. Here’s a $100 bill. I’m sure we’ve all seen one of these. This is $10,000. It is less than 1/2 inch thick and is composed of 100 $100 bills. This just happens to be One Million dollars ($1,000,000). One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) placed on a pallet. Now it’s starting to look like a lot of money! This is One Billion Dollars! ($1,000,000,000) And here’s the money shot, One Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,000).  Notice the little man in the left corner in red?  He’s still the same size.  Now the pallets are double stacked.  Amazing!  How’s that for a bailout?