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.
Sam
It’s go time!
Warning: Keeping it real in this post! Summer after summer, I found myself pulling my hair out trying to keep my kids entertained and – let’s be honest – refereeing the daily fighting and bickering. Yes, summer usually kicks off on a fun note. Everyone is excited to be out of school and living a relaxed lifestyle […]

Lately I seem to regularly adjust organization ideas – especially when it comes to the kids. This is done with the hopes something eventually might stick and that a new/different system will get them as excited as me excited about toy clean-up. Don’t let this blog fool you. I’m not immune to the complete disaster toys can present. […]
