Cohousing-L Mailing List: meals clean-up

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

All this meals talk makes ME ask still another question--

Does anyone else have the eaters doing almost nothing about clean-up?

We have 3 or 4 meals a week and three people on a clean-up team, 30-40 folk 
(out of 24 households) at each meal. We use a sanitizer not a dishwasher.

Eaters put their dishes in soapy water and their chairs to the outside wall.
And then hang out chatting. Often clean-up folk need to come get people's 
dishes off the table.

Almost every household as one or two people in the clean-up rotation, so it is 
not like we aren't all taking part, just not at each dinner.

It sounds to me that it is rare to have so little help from the eaters so I'm 
wondering if others are using our strategy, and, if you are, has that been 
sustainable over the long haul?

-Liz
Elizabeth Magill
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Berlin, MA
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