by Siew Cheng Hoe

Created on: October 08, 2009

Retirement is a time for celebration. Retirement is the time your colleague obtains financial freedom. It is appropriate for you to buy retirement gift for your colleague.

Shopping for retirement gifts is not difficult if you know your colleague well. If you do not know your colleague well, it is better for you to share the cost of the gift with your teammates.

If the person retiring is your senior manager, you will have to personalize the retirement gift. Your senior manager is used to enjoy the finer things in life. It is not appropriate to give a mug or a pen as a retirement gift.

It is not difficult to find out the hobby and interest of the senior manager. Sometimes, you can get an idea from the entertainment claims the senior manager submitted. You can ask the secretary if you are not sure what he likes.

Many senior executives are golfers. They like to make deals in a golf course. Many retired senior executives continue to play golf. You can ask permission from the company to put the company logo in golf balls, golf bags and other items as a retirement gift for senior executive.

Another unique retirement gift is to create homemade retirement gift. You can knit a shirt or a sweater for the retiring colleague with a funny slogan. If your colleague is always saying oh my goodness!, you can use the slogan Oh my goodness! is retiring.

Homemade retirement gift is unique and memorable. A hand knitted shirt will mean more to your colleague than items purchased from the store.

If you know that your colleague loves chocolate, you can buy chocolate for her. While the chocolate does not last forever, the mahogany box can last a longer time. You can personalize the mahogany boxes with some meaningful words. You can personalize the retirement gift from chocolat.com.

Another unique retirement idea is to make a personalized photo book. You can scan the old photographs from the yearbook to show the career progression of your colleague. You can ask the HR department to scan the old photographs from the personnel file. You will be surprised how thin and young your colleague was thirty years ago.

You can design and publish the photo book at lulu.com.

It is not difficult to personalize retirement gift for your colleague. If the cost of the personalized gift is too high, you can ask your teammates to bear the cost. This will save them the time and hassle to shop for the perfect retirement gift.

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