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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.
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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.
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Samoas have always been my favorite!! I literally have to make DH hide the box and only give me a couple at a time or I will eat the entire box at once. (Sad, but true.)
I've always said they should redo the nutrition label so a "serving" of thin mints is a sleeve. Really -- isn't that how we all eat them?!?
I don't like GS cookies. I used to buy boxes from my girls' friends, but the boxes would sit in the freezer for a year and I'd end up throwing them out when it was time to buy cookies again the following year. Now we just donate money instead of wasting cookies someone else could be eating.
I've always said they should redo the nutrition label so a "serving" of thin mints is a sleeve. Really -- isn't that how we all eat them?!?
Yes, but they don't want us to have heart attacks when we see the calorie count!
Oh, and the peanut butter sandwich cookies are called Do-Si-Dos here, too, but I swear they were Savannahs when I was a kid.
Interesting info on the bakers and regional differences. I always thought there was one factory and everyone sold the same cookies. Thanks for educating us, Carolyn!
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Now we just donate money instead of wasting cookies someone else could be eating.
That's one cool thing about the Boy Scout popcorn sales. They have an option for purchasing/donating popcorn to the military. At the end of the sale, each council adds up those purchases and that amount of popcorn is sent to military units who are stationed overseas, for a little taste of home.
I didn't notice anything like that for the GS cookies, but it would be AWESOME if they did. I HAVE to support the GS since I was one, but I really don't need the cookies, but they are just too darn tempting.
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That's one cool thing about the Boy Scout popcorn sales. They have an option for purchasing/donating popcorn to the military. At the end of the sale, each council adds up those purchases and that amount of popcorn is sent to military units who are stationed overseas, for a little taste of home.
I didn't notice anything like that for the GS cookies, but it would be AWESOME if they did. I HAVE to support the GS since I was one, but I really don't need the cookies, but they are just too darn tempting.
GS do something called Gift of Caring. Each troop identifies their charity. One year, our troop sent them to Iraq, another year we sent them to Walter Reed Army Hospital (since it's here locally for us). Last year we gave them to Ronald McDonald House, but when I called this year, RMH said they still had 250 boxes left from last year!! So we are actually giving them to our local food pantry, who are thrilled to get them. So, for folks who want to support the sales, and don't want the cookies, this is an option!
I didn't notice anything like that for the GS cookies, but it would be AWESOME if they did. I HAVE to support the GS since I was one, but I really don't need the cookies, but they are just too darn tempting.
The GS have that. The troops can donate the money through council -- which then gives cookies to the USO, Second Harvest, etc. -- or choose a charity of their choice and give actual boxes of cookies themselves.
DD's troop is doing their "Bronze Award" project for the local animal shelter, so we donate our cookies to them, and they use them in the silent auction at their spring fundraiser dinner. It's amazing what folks will bid for a sealed carton of Thin Mints!
Oh, and the peanut butter sandwich cookies are called Do-Si-Dos here, too, but I swear they were Savannahs when I was a kid.
Probably a baker that's no longer in the mix. Or marketing research that determined people didn't get the connection between GS and Savannah.
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Interesting info on the bakers and regional differences. I always thought there was one factory and everyone sold the same cookies. Thanks for educating us, Carolyn!
I've been DD's cookie mom for 5 (or is it 6?) years. We've been through both bakers, two sale formats (preorders and "cookies now"), two service unit cookie coordinators, three sets of cookie management software and two different banking procedures. I'm glad the store of useless knowlege stuck in my brain is worth something
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GS do something called Gift of Caring. Each troop identifies their charity. One year, our troop sent them to Iraq, another year we sent them to Walter Reed Army Hospital (since it's here locally for us). Last year we gave them to Ronald McDonald House, but when I called this year, RMH said they still had 250 boxes left from last year!! So we are actually giving them to our local food pantry, who are thrilled to get them. So, for folks who want to support the sales, and don't want the cookies, this is an option!
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The GS have that. The troops can donate the money through council -- which then gives cookies to the USO, Second Harvest, etc. -- or choose a charity of their choice and give actual boxes of cookies themselves.
DD's troop is doing their "Bronze Award" project for the local animal shelter, so we donate our cookies to them, and they use them in the silent auction at their spring fundraiser dinner. It's amazing what folks will bid for a sealed carton of Thin Mints!
This is cool! I don't recall seeing or hearing about anything like that here. I will have to ask my GS cookie mom about this for future reference.....Already ordered my cookies for the year....gotta have that fix.
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
That's one cool thing about the Boy Scout popcorn sales. They have an option for purchasing/donating popcorn to the military. At the end of the sale, each council adds up those purchases and that amount of popcorn is sent to military units who are stationed overseas, for a little taste of home.
I didn't notice anything like that for the GS cookies, but it would be AWESOME if they did. I HAVE to support the GS since I was one, but I really don't need the cookies, but they are just too darn tempting.
That is a really cool program the Boyscouts have, but the reason I prefer GS cookies to the popcorn is I can buy waaaaaaay more boxes of cookies than I can popcorn for the same amount. That stuff is darn expensive!! I bought a 3-pack from Dnephew and it was $40! That's 10 BOXES of Samoas!
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So we are actually giving them to our local food pantry, who are thrilled to get them. So, for folks who want to support the sales, and don't want the cookies, this is an option! 
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