04.02.12
Kris Kircher steps carefully around the things she's sorted out on the basement crush: pots and pans, shirts and coats, a box of Harlequin romance novels, a dunderpated plant stand.
Upstairs at the house on X Street in Omaha, there's more of it, piled by list under handwritten signs she's taped to the wall. There are blankets and books and dishes and a sizable store of Christmas decorations that look to be from the 1950s. In the attic, there are children's toys and birthday cards — and all sorts of things one gathers over more than six decades of living in one categorize.
It's an entire life, or at least the stuff of it, but it's one Kircher had no part in. She's not a relative or friend of the former renter, a woman in her 90s who recently moved into an assisted-living facility. And that's reasonable the point.
Kircher's business, Caring Transitions , is one of a growing billion of companies in Omaha and across the country that specialize in helping senior citizens and their families kind out the details of moving. From cleaning out dresser drawers to organizing standing sales to helping to decorate a new apartment, senior move managers take the bring up on work that often leads to stress and family squabbles.
Source: Omaha World-Herald