CooperstownCottage Survival Guide
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Cooperstown Dreams Park Survival Tips
- Laundry - this is important
- Every player and coach should purchase the laundry service; you cannot survive without it.
- You will be given big plastic bags and laundry ticket forms to fill out. You don't have to fill out the details like how many pants, how many socks, etc.
- Figure out a system for "dirty" clothes collection and "clean" clothes distribution. Try to reserve one unoccupied bed with the provided footlocker for dirty clothes, and one unoccupied bunk bed for returned clean clothes for distribution. Hopefully you don't have so many kids that you won't have any "spare" beds.
- It's easier if you keep the uniforms separated from the regular clothes; easier to distribute and organize. Coaches will have to do all the sorting and will need a place to do it.
- It helps if names are written on the clothes tags somewhere for easy distribution, as much as possible. You would think that the boys know their own stuff, but they don't.
- Forget about trying to keep uniform socks identified for ech player. Just have them all laundered and hand them out at random; community sock supply.
- Take several Sharpie pens (Fine point) of different colors. When you fill a bag with dirty laundry, you will include a laundry ticket. Write your team name and bunkhouse number on the form. This form will be included with the bag of clean clothes that are returned. MOST IMPORTANT: Draw some kind of colorful, big design/picture on the form that you will recognize. This is critical in making laundry pickup quick and easy. When you go to pick up laundry, there will be hundreds of bags lined up in a bunch of rows. As you walk through the rows, the special design/picture will help you pick out your stuff much quicker and easier.
- Players are required to wear white pants.
- Each player should have at least 2 pairs of pants. Some players on past teams only had one pair, and they either had to play in them filthy. Or be stressed that they would not ne back from the laundry on time.
- Each person should bring at least 2-3 towels (or more) for bathing.
- Often, wet towels were not taken care of properly, and the kids ended up having to dry off with a wet, gross towel, or no towel at all because they were at the laundry.
- Please stress to your player the importance of hanging towels to dry and making sure they are included in the laundry each night!!
- You need to write names on the towels. It is suggested that parents just go to Wal-Mart and buy several cheap, white bath towels to use for this trip.
