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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I'm having the same problem with stupid roaches. Good luck! The only thing I've ever found that works on ants is a line of poison around the exterior wall of the house.
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We had ant problems a couple of summers ago and we used Ortho Home Defense. We bought it at Wal Mart. We now spray the perimeter of our house in the spring and summer and have not had problems with ants since. It is also safe for children and pets once it is dry.
We had a major carpenter ant problem this summer and tried all the home remedies and ant traps we could find or Google. We finally called Terminix and haven't seen one since except the dead ones. They came once and did targeted treatments indoors (safe for kids and pets) and sprayed outdoors. They will come quarterly for the next year and just do outdoors.
I have written posts on ants, carpenter ants, roaches and several other pests for over a year.
As lexiemom also confirms USE Ortho Home Defense inside and outside your home. This spray is so active that ants die immediately and they will not cross over the line where you sprayed and no dry resdue.
If the Collins Family is reading this, with their roach problem, this is the spray you need.
For any interested readers see the pictures on the Ortho Home Defense container for the many different pests it kills.
My DH bought some sort of ant traps, and they take it back to the nest and kills them all
I think I have an extra box..let me go look at the name( Raid double control ant baits)
It only took a day or 2 and we havent seen any ants since, its been about 1 1/2weeks..
I have written posts on ants, carpenter ants, roaches and several other pests for over a year.
As lexiemom also confirms USE Ortho Home Defense inside and outside your home. This spray is so active that ants die immediately and they will not cross over the line where you sprayed and no dry resdue.
If the Collins Family is reading this, with their roach problem, this is the spray you need.
For any interested readers see the pictures on the Ortho Home Defense container for the many different pests it kills.
Is it time for home made yellow jacket traps yet?
Excellent! Thanks! We will be investing in some immediately.
We used Terro Liquid Traps inside in high-traffic areas for the ants and I sprayed Ortho into every nook and cranny I saw the little buggers coming from AND around the house. The liquid traps are a freakin' mess. Some of it got on the linoleum in my bathroom and it ATE through the linoleum and MELTED it. No wonder it kills ants. It'll eat the chrome off a car bumper. I ditched the liquid traps and switched to a spray made of cucumber juice and salt that the ants HATE. Works like a charm.
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We had problems with ants early this spring/summer and we used the raid traps and they worked great, without having any spray residue around for the kids/pets to get into.
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They came once and did targeted treatments indoors (safe for kids and pets) and sprayed outdoors. They will come quarterly for the next year and just do outdoors.
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No wonder it kills ants. It'll eat the chrome off a car bumper. 
I ditched the liquid traps and switched to a spray made of cucumber juice and salt that the ants HATE. Works like a charm. 
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