Re: Bringing your own dishes to meals? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: R Philip Dowds (rpdowdscomcast.net) | |
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 12:37:02 -0700 (PDT) |
At Cornerstone, we do not, but I know of another Massachusetts community that does. My experience is that clean-up is actually the most arduous part of the community meal, and dispersing the clean-up process definitely lightens the load without adding much grief to private dishwashing machines. On the other hand … in everything from shared ski houses to backpacking camps, I’ve been party to trade-off workshare systems where for most meals, one is the honored guest enjoying good service and uninterrupted conversation with friends — all of which gets put paid during the relatively few meals where one is the on-duty forager, chef and bottle-washer. I sort of like this system, and think it defines a communal reciprocity and inter-dependence better than the somewhat undignified task of toting dirty dishes back and forth across campus. So take your pick. Thanks, Philip Dowds Cornerstone Village Cohousing Cambridge, MA > On Jun 11, 2017, at 3:13 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> > wrote: > > > Our sanitizer has been down for months and we are planning ot replace it with > 2 residential dishwashers. We have one now but it is too small to handle all > the serving dishes and meal dishes. > > So we have been having people bring their own dishes for many if not most > meals. > > Now the queston is why don’t we keep doing that? The cleaners still have a > lot of work to do and some people like brining their won stuff. > > How many communities doe this? Does yours? > > Sharon > ---- > Sharon Villines > Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC > http://www.takomavillage.org > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
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