These Are The 5 Best Retirement Gifts For Women

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2022, 11:50:44 AM        SHARE

img
imgThe Free Financial Advisor Blog

When a person retires, giving them a gift to celebrate the occasion is a common practice. However, choosing an appropriate present isn’t always easy. If you aren’t sure where to begin, here are five of the best retirement gifts for women.

1. Spa Gift Certificate

Most people view retiring as a positive. However, it’s still a significant transition, and that may cause some people to experience some anxiety. As a result, giving a gift that promotes relaxation can make a potentially stressful time easier to navigate. That can make a spa gift certificate a perfect choice.

Choose a spa that offers a range of services, allowing the retiree to select treatments that they’ll enjoy most. Additionally, consider having a little extra on the gift certificate, as that may let them use the excess amount as a tip.

2. Hobby Items

During retirement, many people get to spend more time doing activities they enjoy. If the retiree has a favorite hobby, consider giving a gift that connects to it. For example, craft supplies, lessons that help them grow their skills, cooking equipment, or gift certificates to related stores could all work well.

3. Travel Gifts

Many people dream of traveling more when they retire. If the retiree wants to spend some of their newly available time exploring new cities, states, or countries, travel-related gifts can be a solid choice. You could provide them with a high-quality set of luggage, gift certificates to large hotel chains, or even a vacation package, depending on how much you’d like to spend.

4. Annual Entry Passes

For retirees that adore a particular type of attraction, an annual entry pass is a solid option for a retirement gift. Many museums, zoos, and aquariums offer yearly passes. Similarly, you can typically find annual passes for national or state park systems. With these gifts, you’re giving them the opportunity to spend time at their favorite attractions without having to pay to get in, which can allow them to spend more time there during the year.

5. Subscription Boxes

Today, there is a wide array of subscription boxes that can make great retirement gifts for women. Whether they’d appreciate a box of international snacks, wines from different regions, beauty supplies, puzzles, books from a specific genre, or nearly anything else, there’s likely a subscription box that can meet that need.

If you go with a subscription box, make sure that the duration is suitable. If you can pay for a full year, that’s ideal. However, if that isn’t in your budget, a three or six-month subscription can also work well.

Have you given any of the best retirement gifts for women listed above and want to tell others about the experience? Can you think of any other outstanding retirement gifts women may appreciate? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Read More:

Originally Posted in The Free Financial Advisor


Sound investments
don't happen alone

Find your crew, build teams, compete in VS MODE, and identify investment trends in our evergrowing investment ecosystem. You aren't on an island anymore, and our community is here to help you make informed decisions in a complex world.

More Reads
The Best Water Utilities that Pay Dividends
Image

Water Utility stocks are great sources of dividends and can add more stability to an income portfolio

Intel (INTC) Stock – Too Cheap to Ignore?! | Dividend Investing
Image

Intel (INTC) stock is down 45% this year. The dividend yield has SWELLED up to 5%. As a dividend investor, looking for iconic dividend stocks, Intel stock may have too low of a stock price to ignore.

Dividend Kings In Focus: Lowe’s Companies
Image

Lowe’s traces its roots back to 1921, when LS Lowe founded a hardware store in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

Invest in Water Stocks
Image

Water stocks are a unique class of utility equities. Water and wastewater treatment and service is often a municipal function.

The 6 Best Infrastructure ETFs to Buy Now
Image

Infrastructure is necessary to make the world go round in our day and age. Both developed and emerging markets make use of energy and transportation to connect their people.

Alexandria Real Estate (ARE): Undervalued REIT
Image

Alexandria Real Estate (ARE): Undervalued REIT. The overall Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sector has been down a lot year to date. For example, the office REIT category has been down 21.9% since the start of 2022. In addition, the REIT Industrial category is down 18% year to date. This decline provides long-term investors with some opportunities in the Real Estate sector.

Up in smoke
Image

Who's ready to get baked

Why Don’t Investors Just Invest in the S&P 500?
Image

The S&P 500 has a long streak of positive returns. So why doesn’t everyone just invest in the S&P 500?

GME Stock Forecast | Price | Quote | News
Image

GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), is involved in the business of consumer electronics, video games, and gaming merchandise retailers.

Sonnet Biotherapeutics Holding Inc. | Sonn Stock Analysis
Image

A company called Sonnet Biotherapeutics has been developing a drug that treats inflammatory bowel disease known as Crohn's.

NRG Energy Stock Forecast
Image

NRG stock forecast regarding Return on Equity (ROE) is very bright and optimistic due to its solid income statement, robust balance sheet and rosy ESG outlook. But this stock has its own risks as well.

Recent Stock Purchase September 2022
Image

As you know by now I make a stock purchase every single month no matter what is going on in the world and despite the doom and gloom headlines. Perhaps I am naive or more of an optimist that we will get through these dark financial times somehow.

Will Nike Stock Recover?
Image

Nike is an American multinational corporation that design, develops, manufactures and markets footwear, apparel, equipment and services worldwide.

5 Income Stocks for Retirees
Image

When most people reach the age of 50, they start thinking about retirement. At this age, you need a strategy in place about housing, working, and income before retiring.

Mondelez International: Buy The Snack Giant
Image

Slow and steady wins the race. It holds true for investing in equities because of reversion to the mean. For instance, the latest group of new tech stocks were trading at bubble valuations and plummeted when the Federal Reserve started tightening.

Monthly Dividend Stock In Focus: Pembina Pipeline
Image

Midstream energy companies are widely-known to be a source of high dividend yields. Midstream operators benefit from favorable economics because of the continued need for oil. In addition, midstream companies are less exposed to commodity price risk than their upstream peers in the exploration and production industry.

Will it break through
Image

At&t feels good to me this week

10 Solid Picks For A Rocky Market - Zen Investor
Image

I searched for companies that are inexpensive relative to their fair value (margin of safety) and have above-average price and earnings growth prospects.

September 2022 Stock Considerations
Image

With the start of a new trading month, it is time, once again, for me to highlight some of my potential stock buys for September. With all the recent market volatility there is no shortage of stocks that are looking seemingly cheaper when compared to the closing months of 2021.

Monthly Dividend Stock In Focus: Prospect Capital
Image

Business Development Companies — or BDCs, for short — allow investors to generate income with the potential for robust total returns while minimizing the amount of tax that is paid at the corporate level.

Resources for Publishers
Resources for New Investors
Boosted with BossCoin
Financial Literacy Leaders
user_profile
Tom Hamilton
user_profile
Wise Intelligent
user_profile
Mark Robertson
user_profile
Kevin Matthews II
user_profile
Akeiva Ellis
user_profile
Brendan Dale
user_profile
Kenneth Chavis IV
user_profile
Sharita Humphrey