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!
We’re a couple days out from Christmas, staring at a to-do list much longer than I’m comfortable with…yet here I am obsessing over the New Year. Maybe you can relate? I think it’s the overwhelming feeling that a landslide is approaching. When that happens, instead of letting the feeling consume me, I take action. Immediately. […]

With 2 of my 3 kidlets back in school this week (the 3rd goes back next week), I’ve spent a bit of time straightening up my calendars and planners. While the kids were home this summer, I kinda soaked up that time and let the lists go. That doesn’t mean those lists weren’t rolling around […]
