| Got a friend, co-worker, boss, or subordinate about | | | | like movies, you can order movie posters online and |
| to retire? Picking a gift can be problematic. Here are | | | | have those matted, mounted, and framed for a |
| some ideas. | | | | fantastic gift. I have even seen guitars mounted in a |
| The very best way to pick a gift for someone who | | | | large display case and given as a gift. This would not |
| is retiring is to know their hobbies or interests. If you | | | | be my choice as I think guitars are for playing, but if |
| can get them to reveal a passion, then that is a key | | | | the guitar was a signed one-of-a-kind, then a display |
| to finding a special gift. | | | | case makes sense. |
| Do they like sports? The list is extensive including | | | | Sports fans would appreciate a ticket to their |
| golf, tennis, sailing, archery, kayaking, baseball, | | | | favorites team's next game. |
| basketball, football, soccer, snowmobiling, | | | | Inexpensive gifts can include sweatshirts, teeshirts, |
| skateboarding, skiing, surfing, running, swimming, | | | | caps, polo shirts, coffee mugs and other items with |
| parachuting, car racing, horse racing, etc. | | | | cute sayings or images related to their interests. |
| Maybe they have a hobby such as model railroading, | | | | How about a dinner and a movie? Or a concert or |
| model aircraft, model cars, vintage records, vintage | | | | museum? Most of these places offer gift certificates. |
| guitars, Civil War reenacting, coin collecting, stamp | | | | If the support a certain charity, make a gift |
| collecting, gardening, woodworking, knitting, furniture | | | | contribution in their name and give a nice card or |
| restoration, antique car restoration, sewing, | | | | plaque documenting it. |
| astronomy, or music. | | | | But they don't do anything you say! Well, in that |
| If you can incorporate something they have done or | | | | case, help them develop one of these sports or |
| collected into a gift, it makes it a unique item. For | | | | activities. Strike up a conversation and listen to what |
| example, if the person is a photographer, then have | | | | they talk about. Suppose their interest is politics, |
| some of their pictures matted and mounted. If you | | | | history, mathematics, or philosophy. |
| cannot get access to the photographs, then get | | | | Or if your budget doesn't support buying a sailor a |
| them a gift certificate at a local shop that does | | | | new sailboat, then get them a book about famous |
| matting and framing. It is not just photographs that | | | | sailors, or historic voyages, or sailing techniques such |
| get mounted and framed these days. If the person | | | | as navigation. Yes, if they like to read, the sky is the |
| likes to travel, or to travel to a particular place, get | | | | limit. There are books on all these sports, hobbies, |
| them a beautiful map mounted and framed. If they | | | | subjects, and topics. |