Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Advice re an Owners Excessive Recycling Acquisitions

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

We have room teams for every space in the common house and they are
the only group that can accept donations for that room. Doesn't stop
stuff from appearing!

Generally we say "hey this thing appeared, the room team has decided
we don't want it, so we will get rid of it on [date]."
In general we try to give folks through the next upcoming weekend.

We also have a member who organizes a "give your stuff away day" each
May which is a great help for many and has become well known in our
surrounding community. Another member takes the remains of the day to
a giveaway place, using the community truck.

Occasionally a member might decide to put giveaway stuff in the common
house for viewing, but mostly we use our porches for that.
WHICH means we now are in a discussion as to how long things can stay
on the shared porches.
(When in common house they stay about a week.)

With my own family hoarder I've tried saying that I'll follow whatever
advice his counselor gives me, but otherwise, no expansion is allowed.
I will say that in my experience people with such tendencies really
*want* to stop, but its very [impossibly?] hard.

-Liz
(The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill
Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
www.elizabethmaemagill.com
508-450-0431

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 5:54 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L
<cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
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> > On Apr 11, 2022, at 9:34 AM, rebecca.selove <rebecca.selove [at] gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
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> > We would be interested in knowing how other cohousing villages have handled 
> > the problem of a home owner storing an excess of "could be recycled" 
> > materials in the  common-house and on common land.
>

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