Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kitchen Inventory

[Dan Treadway (treadway]

On 1/28/2026 8:40 AM, Dan Treadway wrote:

At Prairie Hill in Iowa City, I don't believe we have an inventory of 
all items in the kitchen.

What we do have is a "library" of countertop kitchen appliances in our 
pantry.  Shelves are labeled with the name of the appliance that belongs 
there.  Next to the shelves is a collection of clothespins with 
household names on them, in alphabetical order.  When you borrow an item 
in the library, you put one of your clothespins in its place until you 
bring it back.


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> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:30:14 +0000
> From: Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] cohousing-solutions.com>
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> Gosh, Ruth, this sounds so much like my own community, Nevada City 
> Cohousing. It?s fluid, and yet it works.
>
> Once many years ago, one of our heavy butcher block dining tables 
> disappeared and it took us a surprising amount of time to figure it out 
> because we all just assumed someone borrowed it.
>
> Sometimes I get annoyed about something I liked using in the common 
> house kitchen no longer being there?.. but mostly I feel so lucky to 
> live in such a great community with so many people who treat the common 
> house like an extension of their own home, feeling our own ownership of it.
>
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> Katie
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> Nevada City Cohousing
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> CoHousing Solutions

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Dan Treadway