[4] Prior to 2007, Organized Living was a specialty retail chain in the United States that sold storage solutions for home and office.

In 1985, Mark Ferrel founded the company as Containers Unlimited, in Kansas,[1][2] with its first location in Overland Park.

[5] As it grew, the company consciously decided to focus expansion on markets not already served by The Container Store, its primary competitor.

[9][1] After private equity firm Saunders Karp & Megrue bought a majority stake in the company,[2] the former head of Bath & Body Works, Beth Pritchard, was hired in January 2004 to grow the chain into a national presence.

[2] Schulte Corp., one of the company's biggest creditors, obtained rights to the Organized Living name in the bankruptcy proceedings, and operated OrganizedLiving.com as an online retailer through 2012.