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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-07-2002, 01:03 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
My children are in Elementary school and their lunches are $1.55 per day. When I go to eat lunch with them, it is $3.00 for an adult visitor. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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10-07-2002, 01:10 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
Most kids in my son's elementary school bring lunch from home so I only need to write a check for $1.75 per week for milk. I had no idea what the cost of a hot lunch was these days, so I checked the form. It's $1.50 per day, but I know he would not eat most of what they serve.
He brings a PB&J sandwich, a piece of fruit and some cookies or other treat each day along with the milk and he complains that he hasn't enough time to eat it all.
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10-07-2002, 01:13 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Maryland
Posts: 215
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
My daughter's lunches costs $1.50. The past couple of years, I prepaid for the whole year (with a small discount equal to one week I think). But this year, she is taking her lunch half of the time, so I couldn't prepay.
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10-07-2002, 03:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
Ours here are $1.35 per day and $1.25 per day if paid in advance (20 days worth) [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img]
I remember school lunches being .25 per day. I was in high school when it went to .30 and we students went on a lunch strike. The local papers even showed up. The cafeteria workers broke the strike by serving pizza the next day and the students caved in. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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10-07-2002, 03:39 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
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Originally posted by MichelleC:
How much are your kids' school lunches?
When I started school lunches were 35 cents a day. Big change!
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Mine pay $1.50 per day and they attend middle school. The price may be a big change, but the food hasn't changed at all. It's still terrible. I've convinced my oldest DS to let me make him a good lunch, but my youngest DS still buys 2 or 3 times a week, depending on the menu. |
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10-07-2002, 04:05 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
Posts: 3,406
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
Lunches at school here are $1.85 [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
DD will not eat hot lunch, so it's PB&J for my fussy eater.
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10-07-2002, 05:41 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 5,790
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
Goodness! I remember paying .50 a day back in the early grade school years (before mom started packing lunches for me). DH's daughter takes money with her to H.S., never pays more than 2.50 for whatever she ends up getting (salad, chicken strips, cookie, drink, who knows what else!).
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10-07-2002, 06:08 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: In the state of Disney Dreaming!
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,572
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
There's no such thing as a free lunch, so they say, and it's absolutely true at DS#1 & 2 schools. MS - $2.25 HS - $2.85! My sons say the lunches are terrible! They bag it.
One day DS#1 forgot his lunch. School policy is no phone calls. They do not "loan" money for lunch. Well, he came home absolutely famished. He told me he forgot his lunch. I asked if he had extra money with him to buy something. He said no. I asked what do they do then? "After everyone else has gone through the line, they call you up and give you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a milk"...and that's it...for high schoolers! I said how was your sandwich. He said they wouldn't give me one because by the time everyone else got through the line, lunch period was over! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Talk about an upset mother! I let the school know that they cannot keep my son from eating lunch and if it ever happened again I would be going to the school board or the local paper if necessary.
Fortunately it hasn't happened again (atleast to my son) because he now keeps extra money in his book bag for emergencies!
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10-07-2002, 06:24 PM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,546
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
My sons go to elementary school & our price for lunch is $1.25 per day ( cheap compared to some of yours) They also have 'ice cream & snacks' that they can buy for an additional 25 cents to 60 cents.
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10-07-2002, 06:35 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
I have no idea since I haven't had anyone is school in a few years. DS #2 usually took his lunch as did his brother.
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10-07-2002, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
Ouch, our elementary school is 1.75 a day. My girls love to get hot lunch, even my middle daughter. I questioned her about it, and they can get a peanut butter sandwich instead if they want to. If so, all they get is a sandwich on cheap white bread, a piece of fruit and a milk. For 1.75, you'd think they would just sub the sandwich for the main entree! My 12 year old (the one that doesn't eat!) weighs 140 lbs and is 5'7" tall. I don't think that is an adequate lunch for her - but I'm just the Mom!
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10-07-2002, 08:04 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
My son loves the school lunch. He says the middle school food is much better than the elementary. They have 2 or 3 hot choices plus a sandwich and/or salad bar.
He did forget his lunch money one day (forgets both ways huh?). I stopped at the school office on my way to work and left an envelope with them. They called him down to the office to get it. He thought he was in trouble till they gave him the envelope. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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10-07-2002, 08:54 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,087
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
Our school lunches for students are $1.75. I know the schools are pretty limited to what they can serve becasue of the national guidlelines for school lunches, but you wouldn't catch me eating that stuff!
When I was in middle school I would eat the hot lunch and a sack lunch from home. Hey, I swam four hours a day so if I didn't eat a lot I would have wasted away to nothing.
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10-08-2002, 12:59 AM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 20,411
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OK kids, got your lunch money?
Since I had to sit down this morning and write 3 checks for lunch money for the kids, it got me thinking. How much are your kids' school lunches?
Mine pay $1.40 per day in elementary school, and $1.50 in middle school. When I started school lunches were 35 cents a day. Big change!
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10-08-2002, 09:25 AM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 20,411
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Re: OK kids, got your lunch money?
I have to defend our lunchroom ladies, because my MIL was the lunchroom manager until she retired this year. They get some of the food from the government and they have to serve it, even if it's not what kids would eat. I remember one time they got a large shipment of dates! How many kids like dates? But they had to serve them.
My MIL says the school systems waste so much money on computers, cashiers, secretaries, etc. related to lunch money that they could do away with all of this and feed every child for free!
After reading some of your posts, I realized I'm not as bad off as I thought, some folks are paying over $2.00 a day. Yikes!!
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