Re: Advice re an Owners Excessive Recycling Acquisitions
From: Tara Gallen (tarabytransitgmail.com)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:18:07 -0700 (PDT)
Elizabeth,

Re: " 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."

I'm very interested in this! Can you explain the logistics of it? Is the
nearby community invited to bring their giveaways too or just "shop" for
freebies? Is it advertised to the community? How long is it (an hour or two
or a whole day)? Thanks in advance.

Our future home will be in an area with a less active Buy Nothing group
than we enjoy today so I'm interested in ways to overcome that.

Tara Gallen
Our Urban Village Cohousing at Tomo House - Vancouver, BC
Completing late 2022. Four units still available. oururbanvillage.ca


On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 8:26 AM Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > > On Apr 11, 2022, at 9:34 AM, rebecca.selove <rebecca.selove [at] 
> > > gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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