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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-07-2003, 05:49 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Make mine a double
Do you have a bar in your home? We do not - did growing up (my parents were HUGE entertainers).
So if you don't, and you keep alcoholic beverages in the house - where do you store them?
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08-07-2003, 05:55 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: Make mine a double
In a box, stuffed under the bench in our breakfast nook. Very little drinking going on here. We have a small winerack on top of the fridge that has a few bottles of wine kept for sentimental reasons, too. We just don't have the occasion to drink very often anymore. Being responsible snuck up on us. [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]
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08-07-2003, 06:08 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 4,695
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Re: Make mine a double
Nope, no bar in our house. We keep most of it in a small cupboard in the kitchen. Really need a wine rack though because I keep buying some of our favorite wines when they go on sale.
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08-07-2003, 06:09 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Make mine a double
I have a bottle of wine that was sitting on the cabinet for months until I indulged on the 4th of July.
Also have a pint of vodka on the top shelf of a corner cupboard. My parents always kept their liquor in the top cabinets, too. Not like there was much. They probably had the same bottle of Jim Beam for 15 years until I snuck it out of the bottle. Y'know water with a few drops of vanilla looks a lot like Jim Beam [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I wonder if that bottle is still up there. I know I never got caught.
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08-07-2003, 06:11 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: York, PA , USA
Posts: 2,022
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Re: Make mine a double
No alcohol allowed in the house, except for the occasional bottle of holiday champange.
I know that I can't stop my kids from drinking, if they really want to (when they are older, of course), but we're sure as heck not going to be the parents they steal it from! Also, if we want them to refrain from drinking, them we need to set a good example...
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08-07-2003, 06:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Make mine a double
No bar here either - John can't drink alcohol at all - doesn't mix with his medication. I rarely imbibe - only when I'm out. There is a bottle of chardonnay currently in the fridge - bought it when John's Mom came up last week - but we never opened it! There are also a few Beck's beers in there - John's dad only drank a couple from the six pack we bought.
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08-07-2003, 06:23 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 1,735
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Re: Make mine a double
We do have a bar (I live in the South, remember) and we have tons of liquor that never gets drunk (never does seem to sound like the correct tense!)But I have a wine rack for my wine which definitely DOES get drunk [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] and beer in the fridge which sits and sits except for when my brothers visit. DH doesn't drink but he likes to a little of everything for guests.
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08-07-2003, 06:23 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Make mine a double
How did that happen - not only a double post on the "DOUBLE" thread, but with someone else's post in between?? [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Sorry!
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08-07-2003, 06:53 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Make mine a double
No bar, but we do have a hand made wine/liquor cabinet in the dining room. I bought it 20 years ago from an 80 year old craftsman. Just a little rum and Zambuka in there now. [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img] There is some beer in the fridge, but not usually. Think I'll go get rid of one now, not going out. [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img]
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08-07-2003, 07:43 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Make mine a double
We have a lazy-susan corner cupboard which naturally has wasted corner space. That's where we keep ours.
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08-07-2003, 11:17 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: Make mine a double
DBF is adamant about not drinking. I was brought up a different way (Irish [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ) and have a bottle of scotch whiskey underneath the counter next to the pots and pans---DBF must be rubbing off on me because it's been under there since last summer.
If my family comes over, there's beer in the fridge, but it does not last long at all.
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08-08-2003, 12:37 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: Make mine a double
Well I prefer to go out and get tanked....so there is usually no booze in the house. Once in a while there will be a six pack in the fridge when DH decides there is a project to do that may need the aid of beers.
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08-08-2003, 01:54 AM
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: Make mine a double
We have a fridge just set aside for drink - both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. When we moved in here, the house had a fridge fitted in the kitchen and we just kept our free standing one as well.
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08-08-2003, 05:18 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Re: Make mine a double
We don't have a bar. I keep the hard alcohol in a cabinet on top of the fridge. I put the wine in the hutch in the dining room. We're not big drinkers, so there isn't really that much to store.
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08-08-2003, 08:38 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: Make mine a double
No hard stuff in my house and no beer. We do have a wine collection in the basement. Some of the bottles are at least 20 years old.
As to setting a good example. We have never been much on drinking. When the guys went to college they started drinking. Not much but Scott does enjoy a little beer. Keith drinks even less. I think seeing us not drink did have an impact on them. Neither had anything until they were of age.
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