I’d also contend that the folding method is not what the “Konmari Method” is even about — it’s the tackling of the broken down categories in a particular order, and the thanking things for having served their purpose/letting go. Everything else is just the putting of stuff away, and I don’t think she’s ever claimed…

you mean baby wipes?

The woman was an inuit Alaskan.  The male was white.  Where have we seen this before?  

Getting pissed and jealous because someone has become super famous for doing things that you also do? I get that. But keep it to yourself. Not a good look, Koopersmith.

Yeah that part will never make sense to me. There should be no set of circumstances that leads someone who STRANGLED ANOTHER PERSON to not get a length prison sentence. He’s a huge threat! He should be locked up forever for the protection of society ffs. I don’t see how anything could mitigate that

Teens are having less sex than their predecessors, but I think characterizing this like it’s a mom-sponsored after-school special is a little inaccurate. If it was, then half-way into the season someone would def already have a lethal STD by now and there would have been at least 4 ODs and one car accident lol. 

I will repeat the comments I made on twitter:

And unless Kondo, Coopersmith or whoever actually filed for and received a patent for this folding method, it’s not a violation of anything legally. 

But have you heard about rolling your clothes when you pack? I totally invented that.

Even though the sex act wasn’t illegal (which is CRAZY) - he strangled someone into unconsciousness and no jail time for that?? My God.

OMG! You mean to tell me that other people fold their clothes? I though it was just me.

I mean, I’ve been doing that same technique since long before Kondo was famous. A friend told me that she did it, and the appeal was obvious, so I spent 45 minutes re-folding my clothes and that was it. You can’t copyright “how to organize clothes,” that’s not how that works.

And encouraging people to not hold onto things they don’t want/need. She is not famous for a folding technique.

Yeah, I love how these people are like, “she just has good marketing!” And I think, yeah she does, what’s your point?

RIP to the world’s most fabulous hoarder, Gloria Vanderbilt.

Woman who charges $$$ to organize a closet angry at woman who writes books about organizing closets.

Agreed. She just took professional organizing to the masses. Most people can’t afford to hire a professional organizer but lots of people have access to the internet. Kondo’s detractors are just mad they didn’t think of it first.

Has Kondo even said she created this method. If you think about it’s folding fucking cloth. I bet tons of people have invented this method all over the world and thought they were the first to make it. So what.

I never thought she was doing anything new or particularly different. It is just organizing stuff.

We disagree with Kondo’s methods and she stole them from us!