mhartman09
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- Sep 9, 2015
I want to thank everyone for the lighthearted comedy being injected into the thread today. My emotions are on overload due to the DD sitch, finding out last night a very good friend ended her life Tuesday after her mother (also a good friend) died two weeks ago , and my dh is having open heart surgery next Friday. Definitely real life puts credit card bonuses in perspective but unfortunately it's just one more thing to fret over right now.
So sorry you are going through all this.
QUICK TWO QUESTION DISchurners Survey!!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PLVZ98H
Please answer this two question survey on whether we should try to create a new thread or not AND if we do how should we name it.
Answer both questions even if you say NO to question 1.
Also - if we did create a new thread:
a) I'd be happy to do it for us
b) we could create a few placeholder comments at the beginning where we could share an explanation of what this is or link to important comments/changes - I would be able to monitor and edit those comments at the request of everybody (similar to what we did on the hotel reviews thread).
c) I would see if we can find a mod here on the DIS that can assist us in closing the old thread (I've had good interactions with rteetz so I may reach out to him (again ONLY if that's what our group wants). If we can't find a mod to close this thread, we may reconsider the idea though because having 2 threads would NOT be good.
Vote as you wish - there isn't really a right answer to this. I'd say we need at least 60% support to entertain the idea...(just my thought)
Also - if you want to monitor the results, I think you can do so here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-LH5L7WP3L/instant/
Done! I honestly am fine either way. I may not post here as often as I once did, but I'm still here reading a lot (often trying to catch up). This thread has been a lifesaver for me in so many ways and the group of people we have here are always so welcoming and kind to those coming in search of advice for so many different travel goals, myself included. I'm pretty sure I found this thread because of the SBs or GC thread, don't remember which it was. I found SBs thread using a Google search back when I was planning my very first WDW trip and was looking for ways to stretch my dollar. I started with SBs for the "free" gcs then found the Target > Ebay > Target rinse and repeat cycle (RIP) on the GC thread. I thought I had found the ultimate way to pay as little as possible for my WDW trip. When I first made my way over to this thread, I literally went back and read from page 1 (don't recall how many pages there were at the time) and was in disbelief. Now, a few years later, I've saved more OOP and taken more trips than I ever thought I would be able to in such a short amount of time.
I think it's hard to find a good balance between wanting to keep a little secrecy to such a treasured thread/group so we can try to keep the nice things around longer, but also welcoming new comers with open arms. I'm sure whatever we do, the nature of the contributors of this thread will continue to make it the best place (at least in my opinion) to come for advice on these topics.