Hi, I'm Sam—a Certified Professional Organizer® based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the voice behind Simply Organized. This blog has been my passion project since 2010, and it's where I get to share everything I've learned from organizing hundreds of homes. You'll find real strategies that work in real life, honest product recommendations, project transformations, and the organizing philosophy that guides all my work: maintainable over perfect. Let's create a home that works beautifully for how you actually live.

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In all your efforts to get organized, you may have noticed that sometimes the beautiful “after” doesn’t stick around for long. There’s a few reasons for this and by the way – it’s all normal! We live in our homes and they should be comfortable and easy. Keeping up that after just requires a little […]

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How To Maintain Your Beautiful Organizing “After’s”

April 30, 2020

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