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 absolutely love scrapbooking! i’m not a fancy scrapper with lots of tools and gadgets, but i do enjoy putting together pretty books with sweet photos and memories. like everyone else, i’m a sentimental mommy. sure, there are certain phases we want to forget. but the majority of the time we are trying to figure […]

happy thursday, friends! although our kids have been out of school for exactly 2 weeks today (!!!), i’ve managed to muster up some energy to work on a few projects. i hope you have been enjoying the holiday season and are gearing up for some fun new year’s plans! speaking of new years – as […]

it’s no secret that i’m a sentimental mommy. i’ve mentioned it quite a bit in here…and, really, what mommy isn’t? personally, i am still struggling with the reality of having a 7 year old first grader and a 5 year old pre-k’er. *eek!* and don’t even get me started on how i went from my […]

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 […]
