Retirement Gift Party
After many years of working (40+ years), it’s hard for someone to just pack up their desk and leave the office for the last time. To help the person in your office who is retiring, you’ll want to plan a great retirement gift party to help them cope.
Giving a retirement party to someone helps them put some closure to a part of their life that has become (in most cases) a good part of who they are. It’s not easy for any of us to stop doing something that we’ve been doing for years, so to think that it’s easy to stop working is wrong.
How do you plan a retirement party for the soon-to-be-retiree? That isn’t hard to do if you really know the person. Are they light-hearted, humorous, straight-laced or just laid-back? Whoever they are is how you need to design the party. Of course in every case, humor should definitely be a part of the party. Ask someone to write a few retirement poems for the person leaving their job as well as others making retirement speeches to him/her.
A few years back I had to help plan a retirement party for a co-worker who was a pretty laid-back type of guy. We wanted to give him a going away party that would help him remember that he was greatly appreciated as well as being missed after he retired. We had the party in the break room of our office to help keep the cost down so we could get him a retirement gift that we knew he would love during his golden years.
The man was balding (I think he had 12 strands of hair left), so we went ahead and bought a hair piece for him to wear at the party. Not just any hair piece, a purple one that would go well with the fact that he loved the Minnesota Vikings and never missed a game. We knew he would get a kick out of it. We also had a cake made up in the shape of a football helmet with the design of the team. We bought him quite few gag gifts that were also purple.
He thought that it was pretty funny a nice that we did this for him. What he didn’t expect was that we all chipped in and raised enough money for him and his wife to go to a home game of the Vikings. Let’s just say that we never saw him so excited in the 10+ years that he worked for the company. It was the perfect mens gift.
It’s been years since he retired and he still stops by every so often and talks with us and thanks us for the party as well as the gift. It’s something that he’ll remember for the rest of his life.
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From the time that we start working in the “real world”, we wonder what it would be like to be retired. When after 40+ years of working we finally get to retire. You make friendships and connections with your co-workers that you would hope to continue for years to come after retirement. The usual retirement gift is the old wrist-watch. Symbolic to the fact that all of time is now for you.
What does one do when it’s time to retire? Well that depends on the individual. If you’re still in good health, one might take up hiking through the woods or if health is a factor, you might just want to go to the park regularly and play chess. Whatever the case may be, to get the perfect retirement gift for men and women, you need to take the person’s persona and likes into consideration. It can also be one of those funny gift ideas too.
Retirement brings on a whole new feeling for the person. They’re not sure in some cases of what are they to do now. The person is so use to working that they get the feeling that their live doesn’t have a purpose. So when thinking about the person’s golden years, you need to but the right gift to help them find focus in the later years that are now for them to enjoy themselves.
If you have worked with someone for many years and have a good relationship with them, you should have a pretty good idea as to what to get them as a retirement gift. You just have to give it some thought and you will get them something to help them through the beginning part until they get use to the fact that they are no longer tied to someone else’s schedule.
Whatever one can think of, make sure that it is something that the retiree will appreciate and remember for years to come.
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