Retirement Gift Baskets

If you remember to THEME YOUR IDEAS around your recipients individual personality and tastes, you can’t go wrong.

Here's some wonderful ready made baskets (click on the pictures for pricing and more info, or scroll down for some tips and ideas for making your own fab retirement baskets.

Time For A Change

When a person retires they often find that FINALLY they have the opportunity and freedom to pursue some of those things they ALWAYS wanted to do, but didn't because they NEVER had the time!

So retirement gift baskets based around NEW hobbies and directions can work really well. It could be a desire to take a cooking class, an art class, learn a new language or become a yoga master! ANYTHING is possible.

• Art Theme
  Choose a suitable gift container and fill with art supplies. Paints, brushes, a canvas, a book on painting or drawing, an easel and so on. You could add a gift card to an artists supply shop too.

• Cooking Theme
  Choose a suitable container and fill it with gourmet cooking supplies, the latest and greatest cookbook by a chef they admire, kitchen gadgets, an apron and so on. You could even have the apron printed with the company logo.

• Yoga or Exercise Theme
  Use a sports bag or a tote and add an exercise mat and a suitable book. Add a water bottle and personalized towel printed with the company logo.

• Travel Theme
  If your retiree has always expressed an interest in traveling to a particular country but never quite made it, NOW IS THE TIME to encourage them to go! Fill your basket with a selection of goodies that relate to that country such as food items, a travel guide, a language dictionary and so on.

• Leisure Theme
  Baskets themed around fishing and golf are always VERY POPULAR choices when it comes to ideas for retirement gift baskets for men. Likewise gardening baskets , or baskets containing luxury spa products make EXCELLENT retirement gift suggestions for women.

Gift Cards Themes

Other retirement gift ideas could be to make up a THEMED basket and tuck in an appropriate gift card, or a subscription to a club.

FOR INSTANCE......

• Wine Lovers
  Make a wine and cheese basket and add a couple of wine glasses customized with the company logo. Join your retiree up with a Wine of the Month Club and they can keep enjoying your lovely present for as long as you specify! You'll also receive a free gift announcement that you can customize with your own personal message and add to your basket as well.

• Chocaholics or Coffee Lovers
  Make a fabulous gourmet coffee gift basket overflowing with a selection of coffee inspired goodies. Add a mug personalized with the company logo and pop in a gift certificate for a Coffee of the Month Club.

  If the person enjoys chocolate more, then swap the coffee idea for a gourmet chocolate basket instead and join them up to a Chocolate of the Month Club. The club will deliver a free present every month for as long as you choose.

• Rest and Relaxation
  Make a beautiful spa basket full of luxurious spa products and tuck in a gift certificate to indulge in a day or weekend away at a luxury spa.

• Weekend Retreat
  Make a delightful beach theme gift basket (use a travel bag or similar as your container) and surprise your retiree with tickets to a fabulous weekend hideaway!

Retirement Gag Gifts

These wonderful little gems can work well for retirees too. It’s an excellent way of bringing some HUMOR and LIGHTHEARTEDNESS to the gift giving ceremony, plus the goodies themselves will continue to bring back happy memories for a LONG TIME to come!

There are TONS of retirement gag gifts available. Choose from items such as doormats, wall clocks, signs, pillows, mugs, wine glasses, candy, sashes, t-shirts, hoodies, parking permits, even eye masks. (Click on these pics if you want more info).

Try adding a MATCHING GAG GIFT to your retirement gift baskets, for instance the doormat would fit with the gardening basket, coffee mugs with the gourmet coffee basket, aprons with the cooking basket, the eye mask with the relaxation basket and so on.

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