“Who wants a clean house?” I used to love watching the show, “Clean House,” starring Niecy Nash on the Style Network on cable t.v. Of course Host, Niecy made it fun along with Yard Sale Diva, Trish Suhr, Go To Guy, Matt Isemann and Designer Extraordinaire, Mark Brunetz. The Reality TV series went to a different family’s home each week for 9 seasons (Tempest Bledsoe and a different cast took over the last few seasons) and would completely organize and clean the family’s house and redecorate to accommodate all their stuff. They did such amazing things, organizing the chaos in people’s lives and Linda Koopersmith was the show’s organizer. She did a phenomenal job. I loved seeing the before and afters of how Linda Koopersmith could take a pile of somebody’ stuff and turn it in to this most exquisitely beautiful fully organized dazzling piece of art. Sheer magic. I wish I could do Mr. Spock’s Vulcan Mind Lock with her and gleen her skills. In the dictionary under awesome there is probably a photo of her. I have to wonder though, if Marie Kondo of the Kondomari folding method has ever seen the show. Now, I am a big fan of Marie Kondo, too, and have read both of her books and watched some of her staff’s videos on YouTube and I applaud her folding method of folding clothes into rectangles/squares so you have less space taken up in drawers and see every item clearly rather than the old fold one item and pile it atop the another in a vertical stack which had almost zero visibility. So it is interesting and may have nothing to do at all with one another but, back in the day, Linda Koopersmith was doing the same folding and standing upright of clothing that Marie Kondo has made famous. Linda Koopersmith was folding clothes into squares/rectangles so that they would stand up inside drawers for better use of storage space and all items of clothing could be clearly seen immediately when the drawer was opened and Linda Koopersmith was doing this back in 2003 on the show and prior to that in her own practice. She also outlines it with color photos and full instructions in her book. Maybe it was an idea that just came to Marie Kondo, who grew up on the other side of the globe and it was new to her, inspiration can bring the same idea to people in different places simultaneously it is possible (ie. Nikola Tesla and Gulielmo Marconi – radio idea) so it is not impossible, just curious. And if they both arrived at the same conclusion for better placement and organizing, that, too ,is an awesome thing for both of them. They are both great organizers. And I would also like to do that Vulcan Mind Lock with Marie Kondo to glean her folding and organizing skills. But, I especially like how Linda Koopersmith explains her ideas for organizing then she maps the steps out to achieve it in numerical order and she includes step-by-step photos to help you come out with the same result. Marvelous! That is so helpful to be able to see what a person means – helps when the words don’t sink in to see what is meant in a photo. I would love to see the old crew come back and revive the “Clean House” show someday and let Linda Koopersmith play an ever bigger role on camera showing her ideas, methods and before and afters and what made her decide to do things the way she did in each case. She is a marvel. I hope she writes more books. Her ideas are outstanding.
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