Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House and Kitchen Housekeeping

[Claire Richards (clairerichardsrn]

Hi Thomas,
I would love to see your sign ups.
I can’t help but wonder if we are too permissive/lax at WCG?
What do you all do for seniors/disabled folks? Same number of hours?
Claire Richards, PhD, RN (on my iPhone)


On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 1:34 PM Chapel, Thomas (CDC/NCIPC/DOP) via
Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> We do likewise.  We have a page of monthly cooking and cleaning signups,
> and then another page of chore sign ups-- garden, landscaping, sweeping,
> recycling etc.--posted each month on the common house bulletin board.
> Officially, adult owners need to put in 7 hours per month and renters 4
> hours per month.  Anyone can sign up for anything, but the same people tend
> to choose the same chores (esp on the cooking and cleaning side).  For a
> while we compiled and posted the hours per person every several months to
> encourage compliance with the hours target.  We have not done that lately
> and I am certain there are wide disparities in how many hours put in.
> Would not be a big deal to return to monitoring and enforcing this, so
> we'll see if people are upset enuf about disparities to do that.
>
> I am happy to share our chore list template with anyone who thinks it
> might be helpful.
>
> Thomas J. [Tom] Chapel, MA, MBA
> Guest Researcher
> CDC/NCIPC/DOP
> TChapel [at] cdc.gov
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> We have a cleaning checklist with weekly and monthly tasks, and a signup
> sheet to take them on. Any member can sign up, though there are a few who
> like this task and are more likely to take it on. One member oversees the
> list and signups to make sure everything is getting done.
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:50 AM Vickie Martin <vickiem5451 [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've spent the morning perusing Cohousing-L, looking for ideas on
> > setting up housekeeping cleaning schedules, and have not seen any
> > updates since 2015. There's good information there, and I would
> > appreciate any new updates and ideas.
> >
> > Vickie Martin
> > Heartwood Commons - Tulsa
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