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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-18-2003, 05:17 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 153
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Birthday Gifts for Friends Question
Hi, I don't know about you guys but I'm not big on buying gifts for every occasion. Big occasions yes, Baby and Bridal Showers, Weddings, New Home, A Big Birtday (22, 30, 40,50, etc...) and of course Christmas.
None of my friends and I exchange Birthday gifts except for occasionally. We do cards - and call each other. Well I have these friends and they are not even that close of friends and they buy gifts for us for everything! They bought us Christmas gifts (which of course we bought them one as well) and then they bought us a house warming present which was also nice. Well here is the thing - every time they go on vacation they bring us back a gift. Sure it isn't much but they still bring it back every time. My birthday was a few months ago and I casually mentioned it after it had already passed something like, "Oh yea DH and I went there for my birthday." Well the next time I saw them they gave me a birthday gift!
Tonight is one of their birthdays. Their partner is out of town at the moment so we are all getting together for dinner so that he isn't home alone on his Bday. No biggie. But now I don't know if I am suppose to bring a gift. I really don't want to, I don't have the money and have no idea what to purchase. Plus I don't want to get into the habit of having to buy them gifts every single year. I figure the fact that we are going out to dinner and will spend $35 tonight would be enough.
What would you do? What do you do when it comes to Friends and birthday gifts? Am I just insensitive?
~Amanda
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11-18-2003, 05:43 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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Re: Birthday Gifts for Friends Question
One of my best friends and I exchange Christmas gifts
alternately. She gave me this silver Christmas ball
one year and a gift so the next year I had the ball
& gave her a gift. We do not exchange B-day presents.
You may just have to not give a gift to get
the idea across that you don't feel comfortable
exchanging B-day gifts with them. It really gets
expensive if you exchange gifts especially if you
have kids. It seems like we're constantly getting
b-day party invit's from school. I quit doing them
except for their close friends. Good Luck!
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11-19-2003, 10:24 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
Posts: 2,025
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Re: Birthday Gifts for Friends Question
Buy a nice card. If they are offended or suprised that you didnt give a gift, then they are probably over materilistic and I would just not worry about it.
as far as my practice, I dont usually exchange gifts w/my closest friends, we just occassionally throughout the year give each other gifts if we come accross something that seems perfect for the person.
I do bring back small gifts for good friends if I go someplace they have never been like Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, etc. Otherwise I usually buy a card for casual friends who have a birthday, etc.
You could always bake something if yOu want to bring a gift.
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11-19-2003, 11:37 AM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Birthday Gifts for Friends Question
<font color="blue">I tend to just give cards or if I see some thing that is like a dollar I think my friends would like I would get that. But I don't go over board. </font>
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