Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: getting people to wash dishes and do post-meals clean up

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

Ann asked, who sweeps the dining room….that is the weekly dining room
sweeper. Our common house cleaning is divided up into a lot of different
chores that people sign up for. That being said, I think it would be
great idea to hire someone to do 1x/week or even 1x/month deeper cleaning.
Would much rather hire out the cleaning than the cooking.

Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions and Nevada City Cohousing
Nevada City, CA 95959
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
www.cohousing-solutions.com







On 10/5/15, 9:15 PM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Ann Zabaldo"
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on
behalf of zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>
>Hi Kathryn --
>
> Am I correct in reading that sweeping the dining room is not expected
>after meal? Who then cleans the dining room? How do you keep the mice
>down with all the crumbles and food spills?  Is there another team of
>people that does that?
>
>I really do think your point about people bussing their dinnerware and
>cleaning The tables really helps a lot with cleanup. That's one thing we
>don't have in our culture. Some folks are very good about bussing the
>dishes but others just leave them and almost no one cleans their own
>table. We haven't figured out how to get that into the culture of dining
>together.   Suggestions?
>
>Ann Zabaldo
>Takoma Village Cohousing
>Washington DC
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:59 PM, Kathryn McCamant
>><kmccamant [at] COHOUSING-SOLUTIONS.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Clean up has not been an issue here in Nevada City. Officially, the
>>cooks
>> are in charge of clean up. I like this because those who make big messes
>> are also on clean up, and those who clean up as they goŠ get the
>>benefit.
>> But we also have a culture of people jumping in to help a little with
>> clean up which can make it much easier. That way I can help a little or
>>a
>> lot if I have time, but not feel guilty if I don¹t have time. People bus
>> and wipe down their own tables. Dining room sweeping is not expected,
>>only
>> sweep and mop the kitchen.
>> 
>> 
>> Katie 
>> -- 
>> Kathryn McCamant, President
>> CoHousing Solutions and Nevada City Cohousing
>> 
>> 
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