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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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06-15-2006, 10:27 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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A moving question
On May 30th DH and I found out we need to move by 8/31. As luck would have it we found the perfect little home on 6/2.
Financing was approved on 6/7, closing is 6/24 and moving day is 7/1 [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] !!
And DH thought I was nuts when I started packing things up on 5/31 before we even had a place to live. Now he's happy I got a jump start on things.
What's the quickest move you've ever made?
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06-15-2006, 10:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Posts: 10,721
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Re: A moving question
We made one once in two days- when we lived in Orlando. An apartment in the same complex with a better floor plan came open and the manager told us if we could get in it immediately, it was ours.
If only our move to FL next year would be another two day affair....
Good luck with your move Margo! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-15-2006, 10:35 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: A moving question
The quickest I've ever made was 4 days. We had been offered quarters on base with 3 bedrooms (we really didn't qualify for 3) and we had a deadline to take it. Unfortunately, I had been 800 miles away having a baby, so when DD2 was 10 days old, I drove back, packed up, loaded a UHaul and moved us in about 4 days. There was also a couple of days in there that I left w/ DDs b/c I learned that my now-ex had slept w/ a neighbor while I was off having his child. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] or it would have been 2 days.
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06-15-2006, 11:00 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: A moving question
When I was in university we used to get a gang together of friends and family and we'd be moved out of the apartment in a day or two. I can't remember if there was any prepacking involved or not, but knowing my youthful procrastinating self, there probably wasn't! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Of course, as university kids, we didn't have a lot of possessions to move either, so it wasn't as big of a production as moving an entire household.
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] to you Margo!
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06-15-2006, 12:54 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: A moving question
Wow, how come you have to move, I thought you owned a condo?
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] How stressful!
On October 1, 2000 I was told I had to leave my apt by December 31, 2000 because I was renting the condo from some guy who was coming back into town. I was SO STESSED b/c I was single and accustomed to living on my own and only paid $300/month for the apt (which was tiny, but worth it so I could live on my own.) I didn't know what to do, but luckily I started going out with Wally on 11/11/00 [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] and we hit it off so well that I was able to move into his two-bedroom (which happened to be less than a 1/8th of a mile away) by 1/1/01. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] We moved everything in less than 2 days.
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06-15-2006, 01:04 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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Re: A moving question
I use to live on at a small kennel/farm as the caretaker. I would feed and care for all the animals 5 days a week. I LOVED living in the country. The family was building a new house and I was going to live in the guest bedroom upstairs until they could complete the barn where the apartment I was to live in was. I had everything I didn't need right away packed up and stored in the basement of the new house. In July they told me that I would need to find a new place to live. The house/property was sold and the house was not done yet. They were moving in with friends (yes, two adults, two kids, 3 horses, 6 house dogs) [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] I was able to find an apartment by August 2002 and moved in October 18. I went from paying NOTHING for rent (working off my rent by taking care of the animals) to paying $500 a month! It was a huge hit in my wallet.
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06-15-2006, 01:09 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
Posts: 13,308
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Re: A moving question
My quickest move is from the couch to the fridge to get a snack during the commercial break [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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06-15-2006, 02:34 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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A moving question
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My quickest move is from the couch to the fridge to get a snack during the commercial break [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] Ooooh Crystal what WILL we do with you? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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06-15-2006, 02:42 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 moving question
So far, it is looking like this upcoming move of ours will be the quickest! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] The military still hasn't written Mike's orders yet, so we don't have any idea of what date we will be leaving here and therefore can't schedule the movers . . .
We are 3 1/2 to 4 months out right now . . .
Previously, our quickest move was when we moved here. Mike got orders down here in late January. 2003, we were able to schedule the movers in mid-February 2003 and we left Main in mid-August 2003 . . . 6 months! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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06-15-2006, 02:44 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 948
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Re: A moving question
About six months before my wedding I moved back in with my parents to save money. Took about a week to pack up my townhouse and move my stuff to storage. About a month later my fiance bought our first house so we moved everything over there.
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06-15-2006, 02:57 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,176
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Re: A moving question
We moved from MO to NV....unpacked and completely set up everything, threw away boxes, rented and filled a storage space...and then 2 weeks later had to undo and redo it all and moved back to MO (long, long story)...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]"trembles from the memory".
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] with your move!
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06-15-2006, 03:58 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 moving question
One day. Apartment in the same complex, with larger rooms, more space, and W/D hookup became available, we had asked for one, and the people who were supposed to be moving in backed out. they gave us one day.
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06-15-2006, 04:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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Re: A moving question
We (should say my mom & I as the kids were too young & DH had to work) moved 2 households in a week (Sure was happy Mom volunteered to help!!!). We moved from our original house (which is 1/4 mile down the street) to this house. Moved my MIL from her original house to our old house (MIL sold her home & it was being moved off the island.)
This all happened right before Christmas almost 20 years ago... The first thing we moved was our Christmas Tree which was already decorated down to our new home [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] We had several local people comment on our fully decorated tree in the back of the pickup truck [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img]
Would I ever do this again??? NO WAY!!! It's never too early to pack for moving! Best of luck to you on your moving adventure.
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06-15-2006, 05:23 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: A moving question
Last year was less than a month. It was pretty stress-free, though, as my dad and Kylor did most of the big moving. All I had to do was pack.
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06-15-2006, 06:04 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,304
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Re: A moving question
This move we just made, Our house sold overnight and we had 30 days to move..
Deb
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