draws boxes tea, vegetables, fruits and yogurt on the conveyer belt, her purse from the backpack, and paid for. However, the money it is spending, didn’t deserve Sarah Wüthrich. The 31-year-old student has no income. Instead, it is co-financed by the people with whom she lives in the residential community Hubelgut in Bern and Bolligen.

Common Economy is this concept. And it actually works quite simple: The flat-dwellers a single Bank account share, in solidarity. On all the income flow. And thus the common and individual costs to be paid from the rent on dentist bills and General subscriptions to holidays or Spa weekends.

The WG Hubelgut consists of a total of eight adults and three children. A singer, a musician, a theology student, a communications expert, a CBD-hemp-entrepreneurs, earn a social worker and a sex educator between 31 and 40 years, between 0 and 4500 francs a month and come together to approximately 20’000 Swiss francs. A lot of money, this is not – but the group of them lives for two and a half years. Only a resident not of the common Economy, which is for the other but no Problem.

“Since we live so, I have no existential Fears anymore.”Sarah Wüthrich, student

For Sarah Wüthrich, who previously worked in addition to the study of theology part-time, and I often was exhausted and financially, but no green branch came, it means the WG concept, currently mainly financial security. “Since we live so, I have no existential Fears anymore,” she says. “Because I have a kind of unconditional basic income.” However, they had to learn that the money of the other at all. “Take in our society is more difficult than to give,” she says, while she walks with her backpack full of food home. The can feel you every Time if you don’t want to make something that seems absolutely necessary: a Spa day or a book that you could borrow. Sometimes, you may not affects the feeling of the other to give something back – although this is in the common Economy just necessary.

meal: WG-residents are so close that they describe themselves as a “family Hubelgut”. Photo: Caspar Ada

For those who want to earn more, you do not automatically have the right to spend more. Everyone can take off at any time from the rent – to- individual contracts rules, when to enter, what may be taken. In addition to the income of the household tasks are divided. Sarah Wüthrichs Ämtli the shopping is. “I enjoy all of your favorite yogurts to select and perform a task, which some dislike,” she says and opens the door to her home, an old two-storey patrician house.

Anyone can buy what he wants

the members of the WG Hubelgut sustainably and as a community. And after a Golden rule: the needs are non-negotiable. Specifically, this means: What someone wants to spend money on, the others have to accept, no matter how expensive it is. In the house Sarah Wüthrich hugging her daughter Sanna, 2. In the room it made her husband Raffael, Christoph Trummer, Jannik Böhm, Lena Feldmann and Philippe Wietlisbach cozy. Sarah Widmer, 31, a freelance singer, sitting, meanwhile, at the dining room table and paid invoices – a Ämtli, which changes every three months. It focuses on examining the account, in order to inform the other in the WG session. At the meeting, which takes place every two or three weeks, a second important rule: anyone Who is planning an edition of 400 francs, you must register in advance. To not discuss about the sense or nonsense of the issue, but to ensure that enough money is in the account. If not, is looked at, what purchases can be postponed.

At the meeting, the group is also regularly on the mood of the WG. “The money provided so far, never for the thickness of the air,” says Sarah Widmer and smiles. “If we come together, then it comes to the cleanliness of the bathrooms, hair in the drain, or so that you do not tolerate criticism.” Money have lost their meaning in the WG, from the since the formation of the joint Economics only a resident moved out. The confidence and security of being in a community, be repealed, be grown about it.

Joint life: socializing is part of the rent everyday life. Photo: Caspar Ada

After the move-in 2014, the WG members gave themselves two years to get to know each other, to test the living together, and to create annual budgets. Only then can you put together your accounts. Some people with a queasy feeling. “My biggest fear was that I would be nervous about what the other spend money on,” says Sarah Widmer. But you can work around in the meantime. “Of course, me jumping in the account over the course of time, an amount in the eye, and I think to myself: Whoa, since it has let someone in the pub good to go.” There is also Park buses or a large generous donation to a relief organization that stand out to her. But then you say: “Everyone has his peculiarities – I bar me about the expensive natural cosmetics.”

In a special Situation, Philippe Wietlisbach, 33, the only Children’s tickets. He financed the three children in the WG, and also the savings amount of CHF 100 per month per child. “For me, this is nothing else than to pay for the Hobbies of the other,” he says calmly. A little more difficult it was for him, as he needed one and a half years, a new paraglider. The 3000 francs for it were absent on the joint account. At the time, Wietlisbach worked as a senior level teacher and had his salary easily a glider. “Because the thought occurred to me, if I had it alone easier,” he admits. “However, in such moments, my deep Conviction is that I want to live in a supportive community. I have benefited from it already.” His glider he got after a few months, in time for the flight season.

money loses its Power

Philippe Wietlisbach was feeding into the Hubelgut Student and contributed little to the financing. As a teacher, he was later one of the big earners in the WG. Now he has hanged the Teacher on the nail and as a CBD hemp entrepreneurs independently. And this is without the existence of fears, “because seven people can compensate for income gaps is much easier than when you’re alone or a couple,” he says. Roommate Jannik Böhm, 31, sitting next to him on the Sofa, nods. The self-employed sexuality educator visited in 2012 with his partner Lena Feldmann and friend Raffael Wüthrich is a presentation of the commune of purchase from Germany, one of the largest and best-known groups in Europe who live in a common Economy. After that, the Trio is clear: “we want Solidarity in a group life and the money to lose Power.”

she looked interested, pulled in 2014 as a WG into the Hubelgut, launched in 2016, with the common balance and will begin in may with the remodeling of your new home in Urtenen, purchased as a cooperative recently. You want to expand to the empty economy part three-storeys and the community 23 adults plus children expand. “This is a dream come true for us,” says Böhm. The new co-residents are not to Deposit their income immediately on the joint account, maybe even never. Back to all the time to get to know each other. “The Economy is a bigger commitment than living together,” says Jannik Böhm. It is comparable to a marriage. “And this is only possible with a lot of confidence.”

(the Swiss family)

Created: 25.03.2019, 16:13 PM