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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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02-19-2002, 07:45 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
I'd love to say another WDW trip - alas, no such fun. [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] I'm investing 1/2 and I bought my wife furniture with the rest. How boring! [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img]
What are ya'lls plans with your "fun money"?!?
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02-19-2002, 07:48 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,738
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
We are in the process of putting another bathroom in our house with a Jacuzzi!!!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I can't wait!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Debbie
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02-19-2002, 07:56 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: May 2001
Location: CT.
Posts: 1,381
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
A stupid roof for the house. [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] Still going to try to sneak a few bucks out for our trip in June though.
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02-19-2002, 07:59 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
I don't even have my taxes done yet but it's a safe bet my refund will go towards my december trip to WDW [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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02-19-2002, 08:53 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Keith County, Nebraska
Posts: 366
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
Refund? What refund? You mean you can get money back? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
We pay estimates all year . . . and we never get a refund! We always pay in . . . tax time is so depressing! [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]
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02-19-2002, 09:20 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: From the Shores of Cape Cod, Mass.
Posts: 399
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
Like they say at the Superbowl--I'm going to Walt Disney World!!!! Got both, state & federal returns already..both in the bank earning what little interest they will get from the middle of Feb. till April when it will turn magically into Travelers checks! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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02-19-2002, 10:52 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: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
Ours is going towards the closing costs on "the house". The one we are buying for an investment and/or maybe moving into. Still up in the air about where to move.
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02-19-2002, 10:55 PM
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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: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
I plan to also do my roof! (boring)
pay off some credit cards....so I can use them freely while in the world.
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02-19-2002, 10:56 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Robbinsdale, MN
Posts: 7,526
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
Ditto what Swazie said!
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02-19-2002, 11:07 PM
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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: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
I wont know till next tuseday what I'm getting back.I will put it in the bank till I know what to do.
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02-19-2002, 11:25 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: B\'ville, OK
Posts: 851
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
Well of course a good share is going toward our WDW trip in June and some will go to support DD#1's dance habit. Man those workshops, costumes and competitions can get expensive. I don't even want to think about her getting into a summer camp. Then I'll save the rest for hmmm.. maybe a little December Magic [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I'll have to work on that one.
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02-19-2002, 11:42 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Liberty, MO
Posts: 165
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
Uncle Sam was good to us this year [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] We're going to build a new deck and buy some patio furniture after our May trip to the Mouse. The rest of it is going towards my summer tuition. Now if only I had the will power to veg in the sun and do homework at the same time... [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
andrea
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02-20-2002, 08:01 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,138
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
The first year we got "real" jobs we owed Uncle sam over 6K...now, whenever we have a refund (and it's usually a small one) it goes straight into the bank.
Fortunately, I get my company bonus in March, and I always get to buy myself something extravagant with part of that.
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02-20-2002, 08:12 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: VERMONT
Posts: 4,201
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
My huge $700 refund has already been spent on 7 Day Park Hopper Plus Passes. Wish I could get a whole trip out of a refund. I even had to kick a couple hundred in toward the passes. At this rate it would take me 4 years to pay for a trip. [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img]
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02-20-2002, 08:19 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: So what are YOU doing with your tax refund?!?
We have not got a tax refund since 1987. That's the year we opened our agency. We send the government money every quarter and at tax form time we still owe them more!!!!! [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]
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