The Long Service Index — Personalised Retirement Gifts
The Retirement Gift Co.

Stage 3 of 4

The gift itself

Print, canvas, framed, keepsake or download. What each format is, and what it costs.

A stack of thick deckle-edged printing paper on a wooden table beside a fountain pen and a bottle of ink.

By this point the question has narrowed to a thing on a table. These pages take one format each and say plainly what it is, what it costs, and who it suits. A framed canvas and a digital download are both good answers; they're answers to different questions, and the difference is mostly time and how the gift will be handed over.

The reading, in order

Ready to put their name on it?

And after that

The stage that follows this one is the next chapter: The send-off itself: the party, the card, and the words people reach for.

Written by Craig Fearn, The Retirement Gift Co.

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