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!
I love the part of my business where I get to take all of the before / after photos to show you the projects I’ve been working on. As you’ve seen from the sheer volume of photos I snap (ahem – yesterday’s post), it’s kind of my favorite part of the job. And my favorite […]

If you have a digital camera, it’s likely you’ve been uploading those precious photos to your computer. But maybe you don’t have the time to print out those photos because life is busy. Reeeeeeallly busy??!! So the big question is…Until you’re ready to print out those photos, are you protecting them by backing up regularly? […]

today’s i’m talking all about photo organization. i know, YAY! i can hear some of my personal friends who read along in here cheering “fiiiiiinally, sam!”. as a child, my mom snapped a lot of photos. to showcase our family photos she used those sticky-paged photo albums. you know the old albums with the clear […]
