Retirement Gift

Retirement Gift: Fitness & Health

Is someone in your office workplace or someone that is close to you set to retire in the near future and you are looking for ideas on what to get him or her? Try a health and fitness themed gift basket. There are hundreds of different variations of baskets that can be made depending on the budget, gender of the person, general likes and dislikes, and where a person lives. Part of the gifts can be serious and the rest can be gag gifts. Here we will try and supply some different ideas for both men and woman that can neatly fit into a gift basket.

GIFT BASKET THEMES

1. Golf Lovers Basket

It may be a bit cliché but a large majority of retired men intend to play a lot of golf and a golf driving range gift certificate or golf course membership would fit perfectly in a gift basket. It can be a center piece of a golf themed gift basket which could include golf gloves, tees, balls, shoes, and any other golf related item you can think of. here’s a couple of funny gift ideas, you can get the DVD Dwarf on Golf or all used products in the basket before giving the real basket.

2. Exercise or Fitness Theme

Many people say they want to exercise more but the eight do not have the time or they don’t want to spend the money. If you think your retiree would be interested in a gym membership you can center a gift basket on a gym gift card and take those excuses away. You can include weight lifting gloves, exercise clothes, protein and nutritional bars, vitamins, head bands, and other like gym going products. Again, for a laugh you can personalize a T-shirt, towel, a big supply of sports cream for all the aches and pains, make a funny exercise tutorial or whatever else you can think of that would be funny.

If a gym membership is not ideal but you think the person would want to exercise you can still do a gift basket but gear it more towards exercises that can be done at home. Include some exercise videos (P90X or Turbo Jam for example), exercise bands, weighted aerobics gloves, yoga mat, exercise cloths, different fitness drinks and foods, small weights, roller blades, running shoes, and so on. The combination’s or themes are truly endless. Again, for fun you can include a funny videos, exercise for dummies manual, a funny list of do’s and don’ts, and a funny list of motivational quotes.

3. Day Spa Theme

For the person that needs to relax and be taken cared of send them to a spa for a day so they can get that much needed massage, acupuncture treatment, and aroma therapy. The basket can include some soft nature music, candles, lotions and oils, massaging tools, foot soaker, facial creams, and anything else that will go along with the theme. The mockery that can be created with this can get crude in a hurry, but having funny labels on the lotions, creative titles of manuals, hair waxing products, toe jam cures, and so on. Like I said this one could get funny so have fun with it.

4. Sports and Recreational Themes

A lot of people are fanatical about a specific sport, so you can do a football themed gift basket including tickets to a game, or for a tennis player buy a racket. Where I live people are nuts for the Ohio State Buckeyes so buying a golf bag with Brutus the Buckeye on the side, or football jersey with his or her name on the back would go a long way. To get a laugh buy something that is totally irrelevant to the sport like ping pong ball for a golfer or soccer ball for a basketball fan. A big gag is making a basket of a rival sports teams products, but keep it inexpensive because most of it will never see the light of day.

All these ideas can be perfect for a women or mens gift. If you are looking for bigger items like elliptical machines, treadmills, or other gym equipment go to EllipticalMachinMan.com to see some reviews and lists of different products. I hope you have fun with your retiree’s gifts and can use some of the themes provided to get a great idea.

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Homemade Retirement Gift

When giving a retirement gift, you can save money as well as making it a little more personal when you make it yourself. A homemade retirement gift is a more of a thoughtful gift than just going out the store and buying something.

In doing so you may be able to bring a little laughter to the person, who in many cases, look at the day as a sad event. It’s hard for someone who has been working for over 40 years to just stop working and think of their day is just their’s to do as they want. You can make it a little more special for the person by making a homemade gift.

Home Made Is Economical

On the process of choosing what gift to give on a retiree’s special day, you may have finally decided to give him something that you think is quite special and save money in the process. You may also put the idea of home made in a perspective of a utilitarian and consider the act itself as geared toward the greater good, which is in this context both of you for benefiting.

Home Made Is Personal

What is good about a retirement gift as being home made is that it becomes more personal than anything bought off the common marketplace or online. For a recipient who values the aesthetic value as well as the sentimental value of things, he/she will be able to appreciate a home made retirement gift more than those which were commercially made. Making the gift yourself will show the person that you put a little more thought into their gift.

Home Made Is Unique

When you make a gift for someone instead of going to the store and buying something off the shelf, you’ve giving them a gift that no one else has or will ever get. It’s unique in it’s own way and something to remember. By doing so, not only have you advertised your sense of creativity and good nature to everyone else other than the recipient of your gift, you also have made it known among them that you have creativity and a sense of value for uniqueness.

Home Made Is Priceless

Another good thing about a homemade retirement gift is that its uniqueness is its own value, which is definitely priceless. Like any work of art, any retirement gift that has been hand crafted and given to another person is similar to giving a part of the person to another as a parting gift and to be part of the person’s life.

Make it personally to assure the perfect mens gift or even a women.

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