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!
Do you have school papers, school schedules, homework tools, hot lunch menus, and even more school papers just randomly stacked and thrown about on your kitchen counter? No? That’s just me? Oh boy. Well, I can happily say that was me. But not anymore, friends! Last week I went from this… To this… I had […]

A little recognition goes a long way for a blogger. Any blogger out there reading that statement is surely nodding their head in agreement. Yes, we love our jobs writing about whatever topic or niche we have chosen to share so passionately with the blogosphere…Day in and day out. The work involved behind the scenes […]
Happy Friday! Hope you have something great planned for the weekend. After this week full of home office organization tasks, this gal is ready for a much needed stress/work-free weekend. I’m spending time with precious friends, having brunch in the city and attending the America’s Cup. The joys of living in San Francisco, near family […]

I’ve been having so much fun this week setting up my new home office with my Martha Stewart Home Office supplies that I can’t believe it’s Thursday. already!? I’m going to do something I normally don’t = share a quick before and after shot of the office shelving. Yes. before I’ve even shared how I […]

Along with getting my home office organized and the kids ready for back to school, I’m focusing in on all things blog organization. And not only the blog….But my future organization business plans as well. When the kids are back in school, I’ll have some (much needed) precious alone time to work without a bajillion […]

Happy Tuesday! Been up bright and early filling out school registration forms, compiling to-do lists and meeting with home appointments. With my newly organized desktop, I have no problem getting up early to sit right here…In my happy place… This morning, making those to-do lists were a snap with my new, simple home management binder […]
