Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: getting people to wash dishes and do post-meals clean up

[betsy1945 (betsy1945]

We here at Liberty Village in Maryland have a four person team for each meal ( 
approx. once a week ). These four people do the cooking and cleaning. We do 
have a rug in our dinning room which I was not in favor of. Others thought it 
would cut down on noise. It does not get cleaned very often and has become 
pretty grungy. Other than the rug, our system seems to be working pretty well. 
I haven't heard anyone complain about the cleaning. 
Betsy Algire 
Liberty Village 

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From: "Kathryn McCamant" <kmccamant [at] COHOUSING-SOLUTIONS.COM> 
To: "cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:23:33 AM 
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ getting people to wash dishes and do post-meals clean up 


Ann asked, who sweeps the dining room….that is the weekly dining room 
sweeper. Our common house cleaning is divided up into a lot of different 
chores that people sign up for. That being said, I think it would be 
great idea to hire someone to do 1x/week or even 1x/month deeper cleaning. 
Would much rather hire out the cleaning than the cooking. 

Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President 
CoHousing Solutions and Nevada City Cohousing 
Nevada City, CA 95959 
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755 
www.cohousing-solutions.com 







On 10/5/15, 9:15 PM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Ann Zabaldo" 
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on 
behalf of zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote: 

> 
> 
>Hi Kathryn -- 
> 
> Am I correct in reading that sweeping the dining room is not expected 
>after meal? Who then cleans the dining room? How do you keep the mice 
>down with all the crumbles and food spills?  Is there another team of 
>people that does that? 
> 
>I really do think your point about people bussing their dinnerware and 
>cleaning The tables really helps a lot with cleanup. That's one thing we 
>don't have in our culture. Some folks are very good about bussing the 
>dishes but others just leave them and almost no one cleans their own 
>table. We haven't figured out how to get that into the culture of dining 
>together.   Suggestions? 
> 
>Ann Zabaldo 
>Takoma Village Cohousing 
>Washington DC 
>Sent from my iPhone 
> 
>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:59 PM, Kathryn McCamant 
>><kmccamant [at] COHOUSING-SOLUTIONS.COM> wrote: 
>> 
>> 
>> Clean up has not been an issue here in Nevada City. Officially, the 
>>cooks 
>> are in charge of clean up. I like this because those who make big messes 
>> are also on clean up, and those who clean up as they goŠ get the 
>>benefit. 
>> But we also have a culture of people jumping in to help a little with 
>> clean up which can make it much easier. That way I can help a little or 
>>a 
>> lot if I have time, but not feel guilty if I don¹t have time. People bus 
>> and wipe down their own tables. Dining room sweeping is not expected, 
>>only 
>> sweep and mop the kitchen. 
>> 
>> 
>> Katie 
>> -- 
>> Kathryn McCamant, President 
>> CoHousing Solutions and Nevada City Cohousing 
>> 
>> 
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