Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Cleaning the common h ouse

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

Posted in the commonhouse is a monthly list which covers the whole year.
Every adult in the community is assigned to a month. When its your month,
there is a list of deep cleaning chores which need to be accomplished and
checked off. The commonhouse team monitors this list and reminds you if you
forget your chores. Occiasionally people hire (pay out of their own pockets)
other memebers to cover their obligation.

We also have a whole community work party on the commonhouse a couple times
a year to do stuff like wash the windows, clean out the basement, caulk
windows, etc.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org [mailto:cohousing-l [at] 
> freedom.mtn.org]On
> Behalf Of MartyR707 [at] aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 6:28 PM
> Subject: Cleaning the common h ouse
>
>
> What policies do you "built" communities have for cleaning the
> common house?
> does everyone take a shift?  or is it one of many jobs to choose
> from?  How
> often does it get done?  Do kids have to help? does the system
> work?  Did you
> have a policy before move-in?  did it change later? etc..........
>
> We are working on developing a policy before we move in (starting
> in about 6
> weeks!!) and would love to hear from any and all.
>
> thanks once again,
> Marty Roberts, Two Acre Wood, Sebastopol
>