Originally Posted By Ghost of LPWB Past I visit all you LPWB past participants to help you relive and rejoice in the joy, laughter and kindness of past Winter Bashes. Share your memories, express your gratitude, spread some kindness right here in the LPWB Memories thread. Let's here stories of the wonderful things Bashers did for you during one of the many past seasons. Share a link or two of something that warms your heart. Tell us about how you plan to spread goodwill this year.
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Originally Posted By Lisann22 Um, Jim? You sign up for it right here on LP. In Community. Every year for the past 5 years straight I believe. It's not a meet. ;>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Oh. <--(suddenty stops crying) Well, maybe I'll have to check it out this year.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Invited? What's that? How about a Crash And Bash? I like the sound of it. (singing "crash and bash" to a cha-cha beat in my head)
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Ohhhh Ghost. You are a kind soul to try to remind us of such good LP times. I have nothing but love for the Inspector and all his elves for selflessly coordinating the Bash. Just thinking about the amount of work it actually takes is overwhelming. There are not words to thank. I sat out last year but bashed the two years before that. I had wonderful folks to bash, got bashed wonderfully. It was enormous fun! I treasure each and everything I received and always will. I mean think about it - most of us are complete strangers pulled together by our common love of Disney, and yet here we are thinking of each other, caring, gifting. That's pretty remarkable. Plus the music is always pretty good. ;-)
Originally Posted By Ursula Oh, my. I'm afraid to say anything for fear of forgetting someone or not mentioning something someone nice did for me... But, my favorite bash memory is of my cell phone ringing... Ursula's cell: ring, ring Ursula: Hello? threeundertwo: Where are you? Ursula: Liquor Barn threeundertwo: *insert snarky laugh here*, GET home, the bash is on! Of course, I didn't know she was my bashee and this led to the grand unveiling and opening of my gifts online, of which I recall many lovely things and twelve pounds of chocolate and a leopard Mickey plate. Ah, fond memories!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I have a couple: 1. -em getting me the Mary Poppins album I had as a little girl. OMG such memories came flooding back. -em was pretty sick the year she was my pal and what she did for me considering that was pretty amazing. She gave me several homemade items that have hung in my home since. She took a Mickey antenna ball, cut it in half and wrote Believe on matte paper, framed it in a shadowbook. Simple, understated and so powerful all at the same time and she made me homemade journals from scrapbooking paper that I still use and think of her each time. A couple years ago TiggerPooh1973 was my pal. We are friends and have shared things over the years that would mean I knew her handwriting and such. She did a great job disguising her writing with help. LOL! She got me a Mary Poppins collector plate that I still display AND she made me the coolest best ever Disney CD of mine and her favorite tunes. I play it all the time, loaded onto my iPod. I think of her whenever I'm listening. ;> Alexbook gave me the ornament they were giving to Cast Members at their Christmas Party I believe two years ago, it was Shag's Small World - that was beyond cool! And Poohbear made me a certain secret cookie she does well that was also a childhood favorite my grandma used to make. To open that box and smell those cookies brought back so many memories and she had no clue just how special that was, nevermind the AMAZING box it all came in. ;>
Originally Posted By Tiggirl I have many many wonderful memories of the LPWB but one of my favorites was from the first year. I think it was in 2002. The Bash started all because of an off topic comment in a thread where someone (can't remember who) said it would be fun if LP had a secret santa thing for Christmas. It wasn't mentioned seriously... after all how could a website with people scattered all across the globe have a secret santa game? But the thought wouldn't leave my brain. I just kept thinking about it. A few days later I got an email from Inspector57 saying he kept thinking about how we could do a secret santa thing for LP. LOL! We brainstormed for a while. We worried over the right name. We didn't want to exclude anyone by calling it anything relating to Christmas. We wanted everyone who wanted to participate to feel comfortable. There were many late night phone calls and emails between us trying to come up with a game plan, rules, contingency plans, etc. When Inspector made the first post announcing it I was surprised by the response. People were really excited for it! Inspector and I fumbled our way through that first year. We made things up as we went along, encountered problems we didn't anticipate and read more ecards than any person should ever have to. LOL! But it was such a rewarding experience. Working on the Bash from behind the sceens you really get to see the generosity of LP. We all know LP is a great community but too see so many people work so hard to make the first Winter Bash a success was truly heartwarming. People donated money for shipping costs, sent little presents to Inspector and I and words of encouragement when we were drowning in emails. It wasn't the gifts that made the bash special to me... it was to see LP pull together as a community in the spirit of giving and goodwill. Thanks to everyone who's ever participated in the Winter Bash (or those who plan to in the future!) because you've all shown what the holidays are really about... not presents, food or even cheery music. Its about doing things for others. So... thank you! ~Beth
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Hey, Tiggirl only has ONE typo this time! My fondest memory was the load of gifts that my Bash Pal sent to me...one of them was a paint can decorated with pics of Disney Villains taken from the Disney Days desk calendar. Inside the can (well-cleaned of course) was a ziploc bag of goldfish. The problem: the bag opened and the goldfish became its own packaging peanuts. The other fond memory was that I had to go to the post office to pick up my final package...which was under my LP name. I got a kick out of the postmaster saying my "name" and had to tell her that it was a Secret Santa game. My favourite holiday memory is when Inspector and I would play hide and seek at his place. I would hide outside on Christmas morning and he would find me much, much, MUCH later...
