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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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When we were younger DH & I were awful at our finances. Consiquently we went very deeply into debt. Now we have a large bill with a collection agency we are paying off in instalments. We just received a statement from them that says we owe more than our records indicate. Since this company does not accnowledge our payment on a regular basis, I have been saving the "stub" from each of the cashiers checks we sent them. (At least this way I can prove we sent them the payments even if for some reason they didn't receive them. As it now seems to be the case.)
My question is, how many of you save your statements with the receipt attaced for your own records. I know a lot of people who think I'm being paranoid, so it got me thinking maybe I am...
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My 19 year old hero! Hurry home! (A.K.A. D_Stitch)
I always save receipts for everything, and if it's something major, I make copies of everything. It has saved us several times. You're not paranoid! You're organized and thorough, and there's nothing wrong with that!
We save all of our receipts, and then double-check our statement when it comes in, then we note the check#, date and amount of our payment on the statement before mailing it.
That is not a bad idea at all. I used to do that. I pay everything electronically now, so my payments show up right away. I make a notation on my bank transfers as to what the payment is specifically for in case there are any problems.
When we were younger DH & I were awful at our finances. Consiquently we went very deeply into debt. Now we have a large bill with a collection agency we are paying off in instalments. We just received a statement from them that says we owe more than our records indicate. Since this company does not accnowledge our payment on a regular basis, I have been saving the "stub" from each of the cashiers checks we sent them. (At least this way I can prove we sent them the payments even if for some reason they didn't receive them. As it now seems to be the case.)
My question is, how many of you save your statements with the receipt attaced for your own records. I know a lot of people who think I'm being paranoid, so it got me thinking maybe I am...
Yes I save all mine....I have bills from all the way back in 1994 or so. I just keep everything. I have just destroyed them this summer...thought it was safe because it has been 10 or so years.
If you have the "stub" from the cashiers check you sent them...look on the back of it, it may have a number or address you can get up with someone to see when and who cashed it. If they find it they can send you a copy of it...may be a small fee. I would suggest that you call the company and tell them that every time they receive a payment from you that they send you out either a recite or they send you an updated statement.
I have had that happen to me a few times. I always make the company look like idiots though...I tell them okay lets go over this and run down the list until they find the one that they are missing, then I tell them okay what is your fax number and who should I put the fax att to? I go right to the bank and they copy the check for me and then I call them back and say are you sure you dont want to rethink that you are telling me a payment is missing??? They say no, okay what is your boss's name so that I can send them this fax also???? Then they find the payment very fast. Only one time did I have to send the fax and needless to say that person is no longer with that company.
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I rarely do, but then again I do all my banking and bill-paying online, so there aren't really any stubs or checks to worry over. The chance for any human error (beyond my own) is pretty negligible. And if I make a mistake entering something in, I don't have to go far to complain to myself about it
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When we were younger DH & I were awful at our finances. Consiquently we went very deeply into debt. Now we have a large bill with a collection agency we are paying off in instalments. We just received a statement from them that says we owe more than our records indicate. Since this company does not accnowledge our payment on a regular basis, I have been saving the "stub" from each of the cashiers checks we sent them. (At least this way I can prove we sent them the payments even if for some reason they didn't receive them. As it now seems to be the case.)
My question is, how many of you save your statements with the receipt attaced for your own records. I know a lot of people who think I'm being paranoid, so it got me thinking maybe I am...
we always make notes on checks plus make copies of the bills being sent out because this is not an honest world any more and it is hard for me to say this .
Thanks guys. Now I don't feel so bad. I save them because we haad a problem where our landlord said we owed him like a whole months rent, and we were like, NO! We paid you. We should be a month ahead. Turns out he had not counted the check we had just sent him, and one we had sent 6 mths earlier had never arrived. We did a search, and when they knew for sure it had not been cashed, they put a hold on it for 30 days then re-issued it. Now, if we don't send a payment for a few weeks (we send the rent bi-monthly so we can stay ahead) he calls to see if something got lost in the mail.
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My 19 year old hero! Hurry home! (A.K.A. D_Stitch)
I have stacks and stacks of receipts. They are the bane of my existence, but they also save my hide more times than I can count. I have to keep business receipts separate from personal ones and it feels like a full time job some days! It is VERY smart to keep them, and I, too, make copies if I'm sending a cashier's check/money order for something. Better safe than sorry.
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I keep them all and staple them to the statement when it comes in (whether it's the bank or the credit card) 
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