Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House and Kitchen Housekeeping

[Vickie Martin (vickiem5451]

Good morning,
Thank you all for responding to my Cohousing-L query. I appreciated all the
responses. I would love to see your chore lists! Please email to
VickieM5451 [at] gmail.com.

*Every day is Earth Day.*
Vickie Martin
Heartwood Commons - Tulsa, OK









On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM Claire Richards <clairerichardsrn [at] 
gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> I would love to see your sign ups.
> I can’t help but wonder if we are too permissive/lax at WCG?
> What do you all do for seniors/disabled folks? Same number of hours?
> Claire Richards, PhD, RN (on my iPhone)
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 1:34 PM Chapel, Thomas (CDC/NCIPC/DOP) via
> Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> > We do likewise.  We have a page of monthly cooking and cleaning signups,
> > and then another page of chore sign ups-- garden, landscaping, sweeping,
> > recycling etc.--posted each month on the common house bulletin board.
> > Officially, adult owners need to put in 7 hours per month and renters 4
> > hours per month.  Anyone can sign up for anything, but the same people
> tend
> > to choose the same chores (esp on the cooking and cleaning side).  For a
> > while we compiled and posted the hours per person every several months to
> > encourage compliance with the hours target.  We have not done that lately
> > and I am certain there are wide disparities in how many hours put in.
> > Would not be a big deal to return to monitoring and enforcing this, so
> > we'll see if people are upset enuf about disparities to do that.
> >
> > I am happy to share our chore list template with anyone who thinks it
> > might be helpful.
> >
> > Thomas J. [Tom] Chapel, MA, MBA
> > Guest Researcher
> > CDC/NCIPC/DOP
> > TChapel [at] cdc.gov
> >
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> > On
> > Behalf Of Lauren Lake
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 3:13 PM
> > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> > Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Common House and Kitchen Housekeeping
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> > We have a cleaning checklist with weekly and monthly tasks, and a signup
> > sheet to take them on. Any member can sign up, though there are a few who
> > like this task and are more likely to take it on. One member oversees the
> > list and signups to make sure everything is getting done.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:50 AM Vickie Martin <vickiem5451 [at] gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've spent the morning perusing Cohousing-L, looking for ideas on
> > > setting up housekeeping cleaning schedules, and have not seen any
> > > updates since 2015. There's good information there, and I would
> > > appreciate any new updates and ideas.
> > >
> > > Vickie Martin
> > > Heartwood Commons - Tulsa
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