Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Joanie Connors (jvcphd![]() |
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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:25:55 -0800 (PST) |
White shop towels, sold by the dozen in discount stores. On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Kristin Wells <cbuilderdd [at] gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: >> http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ >> >> >> > > > -- > Alison Etter 604-740-0321 > Roberts Creek, British Columbia Canada > > If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. > Wayne Dyer > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > >
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query, (continued)
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Ann Zabaldo, December 12 2010
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query John Beutler, December 12 2010
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Alison Etter, December 12 2010
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Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Kristin Wells, December 12 2010
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Joanie Connors, December 12 2010
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Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah, December 12 2010
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Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Sharon Villines, December 13 2010
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query / kitchen towels Kay Wilson Fisk, December 13 2010
- Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query / kitchen towels Ellen Keyne Seebacher, December 14 2010
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Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query Sharon Villines, December 13 2010
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