I’m going to be taking a little vacation from the online world this week, but I didn’t want to disappoint anyone who regularly reads The Lean Green Family (formerly Suddenly Frugal) by completely disappearing from your daily life. That’s why I’ve set things up so that we can have “The Best Blog Week Ever” this week–a take on VH1′s “Best Week Ever” but really a “best of” this blog.

So how did I come to determine what would constitute a “best of” week? I culled the blog statistics that I collect via Sitemeter and Google Analytics, both of which let me know a lot of things about the people who read my blog, including the posts you guys like the most. These two services also tell me:

* how many times you visit (not “you” individually but each visitor; it’s not that Big Brother!)
* where visitors live
* what sites referred them to The Lean Green Family
* what search words they may have used to land on The Lean Green Family
* which pages within the blog get the most readership

It is this last stat that I’m using to run this week’s “best of.”

So for the next five days, prepare to take a trip down memory lane as I rerun the five most popular pages from the past year.

Also, if in re-reading this posts you are inspired to ask me to cover other topics in the future, post a comment. Many of the best and most popular topics I’ve written about this year were in response to reader questions (i.e. the Q&A posts that pop up from time to time).

Enjoy!