Forums Closed
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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-24-2005, 11:26 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
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I'm a company's coming cleaner, it's not too bad on a daily basis but when company is coming (especially my Mum) I make an extra special effort.
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Yup . . . me too!!!  |
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03-25-2005, 01:55 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: northern california
Posts: 9,588
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
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I keep it clean, but not spotless. If I'm having company it gets spotless.
[/ QUOTE ]me too, I spend all day doing spotless for my clients  |
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03-25-2005, 02:56 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: TN girl living in MS
Posts: 376
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
I'm a terrible housekeeper! I am such a packrat (papers I'm afraid I'll need later...even though I wouldn't be able to find them when I need them!) that even when it's clean there are things that don't have "a place". I'm a stacker....stacks of paper everywhere....when company comes I box up my stacks....and never unbox them. Dh is not a packrat and can straighten the entire house in 30 minutes, but he doesn't CLEAN anything...no vacuuming, dusting, washing clothes, washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms, mopping the floors...that's all mine. We tease each other about this a lot. He thinks straightening is cleaning (my clutter annoys him), and I can't seem to stop cluttering (although I do accomplish my list from above)!
My mom had a spotless house and once had a housekeeper tell her she felt guilty for charging her b/c her house was so clean (she did reduce her rate)! I wish I could be like that!!!! I got my dad's gene on that one.
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03-25-2005, 05:54 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
I admit I'm a "company's coming" cleaner! I just don't have a lot of time otherwise!
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03-25-2005, 06:32 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Mahopac, NY
Posts: 3,460
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
ya know whaen u have kids somethings gotta give......My house is clean but not spotless. I am a bad clutter person and I am sure when my dh reads this he will agree!!! *LOL*
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03-25-2005, 06:35 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 22,002
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
I'm a "company's comin', close the door and turn off the lights" kinda guy!!!  |
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03-25-2005, 07:19 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
Definitely a "company's coming" kind of cleaner here! |
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03-25-2005, 08:43 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago suburbs
Posts: 5,714
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
"Show me a clean house and I'll show you a house where an older female relative is coming to visit!!!"
How true!! My first floor is always presentable but if company is coming you can eat off the floor. (and with one year olds, they often do!!) And if perfect DMIL is coming, you can eat off the walls and ceiling, top of the fridge, and anywhere in the kids' bedrooms too!
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03-25-2005, 09:14 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Chesapeake, VA
Posts: 329
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
I am a self professed anal retentive cleaner! Yes, I am one of those annoying people who thinks nothing of getting in a corner with a toothbrush, although after having 3 kids I have relaxed a bit more.
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03-25-2005, 09:32 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,734
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
I usually straighten up before Dh gets home from work, but he's the one that really *likes* to clean. How did I get so lucky??
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03-25-2005, 09:34 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
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I keep it clean, but not spotless. If I'm having company it gets spotless.
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Same here!
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03-25-2005, 10:24 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Baltimore
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 643
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
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Nope.. I'm a 'lived-in' kinda housekeeper.. I've always lived by the 'cleaning & scrubbing can wait till tomorrow..." type philosophy
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03-25-2005, 12:10 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
Meh. My house is a dump.  |
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03-25-2005, 02:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
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I keep it clean, but not spotless. If I'm having company it gets spotless.
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And I need to go get on cleaning right now actually. No company coming this weekend, but I've let things go the past few days  |
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03-25-2005, 03:31 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: A clean house is a happy house!
I used to be a "it's clean but not spotless", now I'm a someone's coming get it clean!!! person.
I can't wait for my life to slow down so I can be a clean person again! |
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