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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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12-20-2001, 09:34 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Christmas Stockings
Are they big in your house? We always had big time things in our stockings as kids - not just candy, but video games and other toys - and I even remember once my mom getting diamond jewelery in her stocking from my dad. Stockings were always the very first thing we looked at on Christmas morning! My wife's family on the other hand - well they usually got something like an orange or a stick of gum (half kidding) - and they were almost an afterthought. So are stockings a big deal in your house?!? We've fortunatley passed on the tradition I grew up with! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
[ 12-20-2001: Message edited by: Dadtojbj ]
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12-20-2001, 11:10 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Orlando....5 mins from Mickey!
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Re: Christmas Stockings
Very big deal here. I still have the same one my mom made me for my first Christmas. I just finished making my 7 mo daughter's. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Growing up, my stocking was the first thing I could open. It had some interesting things in it so my parents could sleep for atleast another hour. We always had the 6am wake up rule. I couldn't bug my parents before then.
The stocking really helped [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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12-20-2001, 11:29 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: MinneSOta
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Re: Christmas Stockings
Hi Dadtojbj,
Stocking are a big deal here too. We would get to open anything in it. there was always some small game to play while mom slept in. Still the first thing opened on Christmas day. Though I don't get up as early any more.
Bobšoš
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12-21-2001, 12:20 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: South Elgin, IL
Posts: 1,043
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Re: Christmas Stockings
What we usually do is set a per-gift limit for the contents of our stockings. This year, it's $10 to $12; with a $75 "overall" limit to the stocking budget. A budget like that forces you to get creative about the contents of your stockings!
So, we end up with a stocking stuffed full of small items we might not get for ourselves -- Jim gets a rather expensive razor (or refill); a couple pairs of sexy undies; a video rental gift card ($5-10); samples of very nice soap, aftershave, etc. (depending on availability); some "designer" toothpaste, maybe one cheesy video of some movie or other he enjoys watching that we don't happen to have a copy of (this is VERY hard to do for a man who has a Master's degree in film!); a gift card to the local video rental place. Nifty items like a Mickey Mouse pen or pencil he can use at work; cool stuff he'll enjoy but wouldn't buy for himself. I always include either a small package of shrimp, crab legs, or herring -- some sort of expensive seafood we wouldn't usually buy that he is nuts for -- smoked salmon, some little luxury like that. Not scads, just a taste.
In a "good" year, we might allocate fully 1/3 of our Christmas budget to our stockings. Each gift, no matter how small, is individually wrapped. (I've gotten specially wrapped tubes of chapstick!)
Half of the fun is peeling the paper off of some of these odd, inexpensive gifts. (Ever try to wrap a pocket comb?!?) For us , the stockings are often the best part of the Christmas gifts. With the "big stuff" you usually have an idea what is coming -- the stockings could hold anything at all!
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12-21-2001, 07:35 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Christmas Stockings
For the kids they are a big deal here. We fill them up long after they are asleep. Then we sneak into their rooms and leave them on the bottom of the beds. The instructions are, they are to enjoy the stockings w/o waking us up early in the morning. Sort of works. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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12-21-2001, 09:22 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,197
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Re: Christmas Stockings
Stockings are big with us too. Growing up I always had one. When I got married DH said he never had one. My parents were going to stop the stockings about then but they made one for both of us plus my brother. I've taken over the stockings for just our family now. So I fill 3 and DH has to do mine. He used to not get me anything (I would do my own). He's getting much better now--years of practice. All of us always get a candy bar. This year they are big Hershey bars.
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