Cleaners -- could try biweekly. We do cleaners after
Slack/Discord
Door unlocked?
Kitchen stuff
Department of teahouse efficiencies: color sticker, label every item in the fridge
During house dinner, clean out anything that's been more than a week
put tape on every item, people remove tape if they use it
lost & found section
How to decide to have an event?
What happens if some people want to have people over; how much is it the norm to interact, is everyone in the house invited by default; if someone's having an event, norms around how much of the house to take up? noise? how quickly you clean up after.
Home improvement
Spend more time communally on improving basement?
idea: Houseathon, where everyone works on house stuff
plan for 4th floor: get a pullout couch/bed, be more for cozy & guest room
Divide the basement into 2? Put up dividers
Shopping
Costco membership -- worse than walmart?
Crawlspace with lots of tissues, put down lots of stuff in the basement. Stock up
Shelves that people have for their own food.
Rachel Shu gets a lot of shelving & storage -- also make it feel good to go down
Weird thing we do: person who goes shopping, gets it for free
Why not order grocery delivery. Recurring amazon
idea: Whiteboard grocery shopping list
Buy-in
Alexandra: can run a house if I had complete control, figure it out, would be fine. But harder without
Group house: everyone has some control & responsibility, so hard to do things -- have to get buy in, people disagree, go away, have to wait, nothing gets done.
(Weekly dinners help!)
Meta-norm: purchases under $400-500, you don't need permission, just buy it and split the cost. Could set a lower amount ($100). People in the house have different prefs
House manager might be good for making decisions
Common house fee + per room house fee, depending on preferences
Wrena wanted this, but people had nonoverlapping preferences.
Sharing locations with each other on Google Maps
Bit intimate but very good
Splitwise!!
Hotel guests
Airtable form & calendar for stays
If someone stays in your room, they should pay for it, $50/mo ([a] should raise that)
[kate] Having 5 people using your bathroom is unpleasant
Norms of a communal house
Get bought in on the level of communal-ness
Alexandra: Communication is challenging, people aren't bought in enough
Katheryn: Send out google docs, and people don't read them. Cleaning, bills, everett
idea: house trip, helps with this
Good to know how long people will be around in the house
eg Katheryn plans on staying in DC for several years, Alexandra might move out with Thomas
