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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-20-2005, 01:45 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
Posts: 17,126
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Fess Up!
Who has their tree up already?
We do. We bought a new artificial tree (easier with Ana) after the holidays last year. We put it up yesterday. I only have lights on it so far though. Ornaments will probably go on next weekend.
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11-20-2005, 01:45 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 24,867
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Re: Fess Up!
No Tree yet but I have my Sam's Club Disney Christmas Village up!
Amy
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11-20-2005, 01:47 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Fess Up!
Not us [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] We put it about about 2 weeks before Christmas.
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11-21-2005, 05:28 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Ky
Posts: 1,720
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Re: Fess Up!
My next door neighbor is putting his lights up right now. We won't put our tree up until 12-24. Some of our family members will come over here and help us put up our tree, and then we will all go to other family members homes putting up their trees. We end up at my parents house with the entire famuly putting up the tree, and then exchanging gifts.
It's been that way for more than 50 years in our family, and it is a tradition that I hope to pass on to my daughter.
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11-20-2005, 01:47 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 18,767
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Re: Fess Up!
Not yet! Chuck will be out of town from Mon-Wed so I'll probably be putting it up then. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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11-21-2005, 11:37 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Arlington Heights, IL
Posts: 2,739
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Re: Fess Up!
Our tree is up in the house with lights but no ornaments yet - DD & I will do that this week.
My DH got outside a few weeks ago while it was still nice out and put all the lights up outside. We are like The Griswolds at Christmastime [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] We will begin turning our outside Christmas lights on the night of Thanksgiving.
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Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95. |
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11-20-2005, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: Fess Up!
Nope -- and I won't until I get to New Mexico Dec 22.
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11-20-2005, 02:03 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: Fess Up!
Not yet
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11-20-2005, 02:13 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Bluffton, IN
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 2,431
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Re: Fess Up!
I am soooo, soooo ready to put my tree up, but I have to wait because I have two naughty kitties.
Last year we were away for the weekend and they chewed through two strands of lights on the bottom of the tree. We are waiting until we get back from WDW because we don't want to see what they will do when we are gone for a week and all they have is our house sitter stopping in.
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11-20-2005, 02:34 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 1,019
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Re: Fess Up!
We're not putting one up here [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/pout.gif[/img] since we're moving in a few weeks. We'll put one up in our new house, but that won't be until around the 15th or 16th. I hate waiting that long!!
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11-20-2005, 07:49 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: Fess Up!
We like to put ours up the day after Thanksgiving (tried to start that tradition the year we got married)... but this year we're waiting till we get back from WDW so the cats don't destroy it while we're gone.
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11-20-2005, 08:24 PM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 29,184
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Re: Fess Up!
Not till after WDW, but the rest of the stuff is going up this weekend! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
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11-20-2005, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 21,627
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Re: Fess Up!
I have my Disney tree up in the family room and my snowman tree in the bedroom but the main tree is not up yet in the living room.
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11-21-2005, 08:35 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Ma. Home of the Red Sox!
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 2,061
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Re: Fess Up!
Not yet. I have my christmas village up in the hallway. Just purchased a train to go around the tree. We are going to pick out a tree today. With DS it's easier to have an artificial tree. We'll probably put it up this weekend.
Donna
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11-21-2005, 05:32 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NC
Posts: 3,536
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Re: Fess Up!
Nope, but it will be up by the weekend!
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