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!
What better way to combat feelings of summer coming to a screeching halt and sheer exhaustion at the idea of getting up so fricking early again than focusing on the positive aspects of school heading back to session = getting organized! Am I making you feel better? Organizing doesn’t make you happier? Organizing doesn’t take […]

A few weeks ago I shared my version of a homework station on a desk…. But whether or not you have a desk with lots of storage space, you can still easily organize a great homework station for your kiddos – a free-standing version. As long as everything is in one place, easy to find/see […]

Maybe I’m jumping the gun a bit here (since the boys don’t go back to school for another 3 weeks – ha!), but let’s talk about the inevitable. That awful topic no child (or parent) wants to think about when we’re still enjoying summer vacation. But it’s time for a little reality check, my friends. […]
