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

[Fiona Frank (fionafrank]

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On Wednesday, 13 April 2022, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> It's apparently a thing you can google!!
>
> We advertise on facebook, on give-away groups, and in the local
> papers. Got a bunch of folk the first year, and then it quickly grew
> so that people send us notes asking when it is this year.
>
> I'm pretty sure it is 9 am to 1 pm. During covid we had tables set up
> as gates to make sure everyone is masked. Early-birds arrive by 8:30
> am. It is down to 10 or 12 people by noon. Probably 200 people come?
> Maybe more? (Compared to about 100 for halloween, where we also invite
> the community.)
>
> In case of rain we move the stuff to the common house porch and some
> people use their porches, but attendance is MUCH lower in that case. I
> think only one year that was necessary.
>
> Signs everywhere say give-away is only in the yards, not on porches,
> and households are responsible for marking non-giveaway items.
>
> Over the years we've had one community cart go away, and a couple
> people had something from their porch gone, but I'd say 3 items
> missing over 12 years is pretty good.
>
> One year someone gave away a full garage full of furniture, but most
> of it is small appliances, clothing, books. Lots of kitchen gadgets.
>
> One year we had a yard sale the weekend before, for folk who wanted
> money for their stuff, but that really hasn't felt worth the effort.
>
> I can't speak for the amount of stuff that just goes to different coho
> households, but our family rule is we must get rid of more than we
> take in.
>
> The clean-up crew sets a time for taking stuff (either late that
> afternoon or early the next morning) and where you have to bring it to
> be taken away. Beyond that everyone is responsible for cleaning up
> their own remains. Households that are away get another household to
> oversee their "put out" and "bring in".
>
> May 21 this year.
>
> -Liz
> (The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill
> Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church
> Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
> www.elizabethmaemagill.com
> 508-450-0431
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:18 PM Tara Gallen <tarabytransit [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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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