Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Money for Meals

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

We keep it REALLY simple.

We have a "dining club" account - you buy meal tickets  with meal "markers" on
them  - you can buy in multiples of 10 meals - fixed price, $2.50 for adults,
1/2 for kids from ? to 12, lower limit is at parental discretion (do they
really eat a significant amount).  The account pays for staples, napkins, etc,
and reimburses cooks for what they buy for individual meals.  Money changes
hands only when the tickets are bought - lately we seem to have run a surplus,
so are buying some kitchen stuff and watching, considering lowering the price. 

At each meal, someone marks off the tickets for those who ate - and we circle
the X for those who cooked or cleaned, so we have some sense of whose informal
"turn" it is.

It works for us.

Judy

Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epi.umn.edu
15 homes - 7 new townhomes plus 
        8 coop apartments       in the Mansion (a rehab Georgian building)
(built as a retirement home in 1924 -) which also serves as our Common House
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