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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-08-2006, 07:40 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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BTS Shopping
BTS (back to school) shopping has been quite an event - and we haven't even thought of clothing yet - between the 2 kids, they needed 13 3-ring binders, all different sizes, and you wouldn't believe some of the weird stuff. We've found all but the "magnetic envelopes" - maybe because NO-ONE knows what that is!!
13 yr. old also needed a zip-drive!!
are you done? Is there anything weird on your list? Does anyone know what a "magnetic envelope"?
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08-08-2006, 10:42 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Carol Stream, IL
Posts: 670
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Re: BTS Shopping
We are not done yet either. Kyle will be starting kindergarten and on his list it says they need 15 large glue sticks. 15, come on. I do know that there are other kids in his class that need 15 also so it's not just my kid bringing all the glue sticks. I hope this is a typo.
Sarah is starting preschool and they have asked for weird stuff. Her list is asking for watercolor paper, liquid watercolors (I'm assuming this is normal watercolor paint), watercolor pencils and oil crayons.
Good luck at finding your magnetic envelope.
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08-09-2006, 02:04 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 2,858
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Re: BTS Shopping
I've never heard of a magnetic envelope! DD attends a really small private school (14 kids total) so pretty much everything is included. I usually get her a new backpack but that's about it. Clothes are really the biggest purchase.
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08-09-2006, 02:23 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LITH, Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 3,205
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Re: BTS Shopping
Nothing too weird on my kids list. The only thing is that they will ask for a big bottle of glue, but I will buy 2 small ones because I can get the 2 for .40 instead of 1.48 for the big one. Why should I spend almost $2.00 for a 100 page notebook, when I can get a 70 page one for .08 and they never use all the pages.
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08-09-2006, 08:10 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 942
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Re: BTS Shopping
I wish I could start school supply shopping, but we don't even have our lists yet! I have a kindergartener and a third grader. I remember the kindergarten list 3 years ago included lots of supplies, but I don't remember the specifics! And, all the sales have already happened, and everything is picked over, so shopping will not be fun. We are supposed to get supply lists with our teacher assignement letters next week. Way too late, in my opinion. At least from a shopping perspective.
Debbie
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08-09-2006, 08:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 7,569
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Re: BTS Shopping
We took advantage of the tax free shopping days last week and got all our supplies for $84. We were fortunate enough to be able to recycle Lizzie's calculator from last year so that was a big savings, and this year Chet's teacher only wanted them to have the one big zip-up type binder instead of the smaller folders from last year. I guess the biggest thing were the new backpacks, but I insisted that they be under $20. Chet really could have used his same one from last year, but I remember how fun it was when I was a kid picking out a new lunch box every year. Both kids agreed to brown bag lunches this year so no new lunch boxes for them. Clothes wise we only bought new sneakers as they can still wear their summer things for the next couple of months. Chet wanted a pair of plain white ones like his character wears in VMK. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] But he had to settle for white Shaq sneakers. And Lizzie wanted black canvas Hi-Tops. Fortunatly there were none in her size and I convinced her that they would have looked wierd on her legs anyway. So we ended up with some cute black canvas ones with a red and yellow argyle on the side. Together both pairs were around $20.
Good luck to everyone else's shopping
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08-09-2006, 08:58 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: the Burbs outside of Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 12,093
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Re: BTS Shopping
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I wish I could start school supply shopping, but we don't even have our lists yet! I have a kindergartener and a third grader. I remember the kindergarten list 3 years ago included lots of supplies, but I don't remember the specifics! And, all the sales have already happened, and everything is picked over, so shopping will not be fun. We are supposed to get supply lists with our teacher assignement letters next week. Way too late, in my opinion. At least from a shopping perspective.
Debbie
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I'm in the same boat as you are. My dd is starting Middle School this year and we just got a letter from the school stating her schedule, homeroom and team assignment will be mailed the week of Aug 21 including a supplies list. Then they have an open house on Aug 31 where you bring your child in with their schedule so they can find all their classrooms. Finding supplies over Labor Day weekend should be a challenge.
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08-09-2006, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Boise ID
Posts: 14,396
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Re: BTS Shopping
We too have been slowly checking each Sunday's ad to see if they have anything we need on sale! DD's backpack and lunchbox are still in GREAT condition (I spent the $ last year and bought LL Bean), so even though I know it's fun to get a new one, I asked her if we could do a new one every other year instead. Such a big, grown-up girl she is sometimes, she said, "Ok, Mama." [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/Lonely.gif[/img]
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08-09-2006, 01:13 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2003
Location: too far away from my happy place!
Posts: 2,298
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Re: BTS Shopping
We did ours yesterday. Oldest DD needed just a few things but the school will supply most. I'm glad, when they were in private school I would easily spend $200. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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08-09-2006, 04:50 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2003
Location: a mere few minutes from the Mouse! <3
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 9,777
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Re: BTS Shopping
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] I am not done yet. We already bought tons of stuff, but today is the first day of school in Phoenix. We'll see what kind of list she comes home with today! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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