Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: meals clean-up

[Beverly Jones Redekop (beverly.jones.redekop]

Are you generally happy with your system?  Our cohousing is under
construction, so we have our common meals once a week either in someone's
home or a rented public space.

Your system sounds quite lovely: work hard during your rotation and relax
and enjoy the other days.  Your cleaning system sounds like the appealing
difference between a cooking rotation and potluck.
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          Beverly Jones Redekop

    beverly.jones.redekop [at] gmail.com

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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] 
gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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
> www.sawyerhill.org
> Mosaic Commons Cohousing
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