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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This isn’t news to any of you – unless of course you’re new around here (hi…and welcome!) – but I am not a trendy or fashion-focused girl. I stick with the classics, what feels comfortable, will last a long time and is great quality. When I find the clothing that checks all the Sam boxes, […]
Filed in : Simply Organized Style
July 30, 2019
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An apology to my regular readers / friends if I sound like a broken record…definitely not aiming for that and certainly not letting the D word define who I am….but for a while the blog post intros may begin something like this… “Hey, last year I went through the final stages of a divorce, spent […]
Filed in : Home Improvement, Life Coach, Life Tips, Personal, Planners, Productivity, Professional Organizer
January 23, 2019
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Happy happy new year!! I hope you were able to ring in this fresh, new year with those you love or by just doing something that made YOU happy. 2017 was a full, busy year. A year that will certainly go down in the memory book. But for several reasons I couldn’t wait to close […]
January 1, 2018
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Really excited to share this easy, inexpensive Ikea shelf hack and organization project with you! Last week I shared the kid’s side of the office where I added a new desk and this beautiful, tall, wide shelf… As with most organizing projects around here (and probably the case in your home too), they bleed from […]
Filed in : Office Organization, Paper Organization
August 19, 2017
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Are you a piler? Someone who, out of natural habit, sets papers down in a pile. But then when it’s time to find something, you’re frustrated because you dig, shuffle and sort? Then realize, it’s not *that* pile the paper you’re searching for is in. Maybe it’s that pile over there? Or that one in […]
Filed in : Office Organization, Paper Organization
August 8, 2017
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Not sure how it’s possible, but summer is about to screech to a jarring halt. And quickly. How in the World?! What’s funny is that typically I’m more than happy for the kids to head back to school. In all honesty, we’ve experienced a few brutal, stressful summers – big moves, expensive home improvement projects […]
Filed in : Kid Organization, Kitchen Organization, Mudroom Organization, Paper Organization, Planners, School Organization
