Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query

[Kristin Wells (cbuilderdd]

I love this idea and was thinking of it myself. Washcloths work well too or 
cloth baby wipes, which can be picked up pretty inexpesively if you dont have 
someone wanting to sew these.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alison Etter <alison.s.etter [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 1:28 PM
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Commonhouse bathroom towel query


Muriel - We  have a system that works fairly well.  We have two baskets on
the counter.  One is for clean 'towels' and the other is for 'used' ones.
However, the towels I am speaking of are tiny.  Someone has gone to the
trouble of edging many small pieces about 6" X 6".  Then they are collected
and thrown in with the rest of the common house laundry after meals.
Therefore, they are only used once.  Would that solve the germ problem for
you?  Alison

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Ruth Hirsch <heidinys [at] earthlink.net> 
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Ok,  here is the situation for which we'd like your input:
> We've realized that we are using paper towels at an amazing rate in
> our CommonHouse.  Some of us consider them a resource to be used
> seldom as possible, and would like to decrease the waste.
> We think that lots of paper towels are inadvertently pulled off the
> roll in the bathroom--- if you give a pull, it unravels lots of p
> towels, and easy for younger folks to have this happen.
>
> So we are wanting an alternative asap.
> Please let us know what you use in your CH bathrooms!   HealthCare
> professionals here have nixed the idea of cloth towels.
> Is there something to dispense rolls of towels one at a time?
> a more commercial p towel dispenser?
> An air drier would be great--- though a good one likely over our
> financial heads.
>
> Hope to hear from you with details:  type/brand name/item number/
> approx cost/sources....
>
> thank you
>
> Ruth
>
> Cantines Island
> Saugerties, NY
>
>
>
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