Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Solving the Cooking Challenge

[David L. Mandel (dlmandel]

Why not save yourself all that trouble and simply post a calendar, then have 
people sign up for the days they want? It has worked fine for us going on 19 
years.
David

--- On Wed, 8/1/12, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> wrote:

From: Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Solving the Cooking Challenge
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 11:17 AM


I'd love to know how you get people to answer the "NOT" question. 

I ask it at mosaic every two months, and create the schedule and people say 
"its easier for me to tell you when I CAN cook."

I personally find it MUCH easier to create the schedule if folk would tell me 
when they cannot NOT cook, but ....

-Liz
Elizabeth Magill
www.mosaic-commons.org
Homes available in Berlin, MA 
$154,500 to $173,000
www.sawyerhill.org/40b





On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Zev Paiss wrote:

> 
> Here at Nomad cohousing we have had 2 meals per week for the past 15  
> years. Here is our "secret."
> 
> Every quarter the meal coordinator sends out an email asking what days  
> people are NOT available to cook in the upcoming calendar quarter.  
> Then they put together a schedule with two cooks per meal (we are a  
> small community) and post it on our bulletin board and send it by  
> email to all the adults in our community. Once the schedule is posted,  
> if you need to switch then you are responsible for finding a  
> replacement.  This way we all know a quarter in advance when we are  
> expected to cook. - Zev
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