Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Bringing your own dishes to meals?

[Diane (dianeclaire]

At Cambridge Cohousing we bring our own dishes.  We were given a
dishwasher, but never installed it because we really prefer to bring our
own dishes.
Diane

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 3:36 PM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> 
wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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