Cohousing-L Mailing List: community clothesline

[Arlene Hoffman (ahoffman]

While I was hanging out my laundry on a beautiful spring day,  I thought
that a community clothesline would be a great place to visit and would
encourage using the sun's energy instead of nonrenewable energy I know many
cohousing communities have community laundry facilities. If you haven't
already thought of adding a community clothesline, you might like to try it.

Then, since the job encourages daydreaming, I also realized that some
community members could do laundry for other members, either for money or
in exchange for other work. There may be some efficiency of scale in the
work, and by trading jobs people can do the work they are best suited to.
There could even be a paid position as launderer to the community! (We
toured the Battleship Texas recently. I certainly would not have wanted to
work in that hot laundry room, pressing all those uniforms. But it gave me
the idea.)

Arlene Hoffman
Houston, TX
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Arlene Hoffman
ahoffman [at] visualimage.com