Retirement Gifts

More free time means more hours to fill, and a good retirement gift should give them something to actually do with it — not another mug that ends up in the cupboard. Some retirees want to work with their hands on mechanical puzzles with real moving gears; others would rather build a music box that plays something familiar, or spend an afternoon on an architecture model if they've always liked buildings more than blueprints. For the ones who'd rather grow something that never dies, a wooden flower bouquet sits on a windowsill indefinitely. Pick by how many hours they've got and how fiddly they like their projects — easy builds for a slow Sunday, harder ones for someone who wants a real project.