Thirty years of work is a lot of people, and a card that runs out of white space can't hold them all. Send one link, collect a page from each person, and hand over a hardcover book that says what their career meant to the people in it.
Start a retirement book See how it worksThe usual send-off is a card that circulates the office for two weeks, signed by whoever happens to be at their desk, and read once. The people who moved on years ago, the client they worked with for a decade, the person they trained in 2004 who's now in another state — none of them get to say anything.
A retirement memory book removes the geography. Anyone with the link can add a photo and a message, so the invitation reaches their whole career instead of the current floor plan. What comes back is a hardcover full of the thank-yous people never quite said out loud.
It works just as well for a farewell, a transfer, a coach's last season, or a colleague leaving for something new — anywhere a group wants to say something together and a card isn't big enough.
One person creates the project. Everyone else adds their own page — the part that usually lands on one exhausted organizer.
Name it, add a cover photo, and set a deadline a week before the party so there's time to print.
Team email, the group chat, the alumni list, LinkedIn. Nothing for anyone to install and no login to explain.
Photos from offsites, first-day pictures, inside jokes, and the thank-yous people never said out loud, each becoming a finished page.
Order the hardcover for the party and a second copy for their family. A free PDF is there too if the timing is tight.
Group gifts usually solve the money problem and skip the meaning. This one does both.
Former colleagues, remote teams, clients, and the people who retired before them can all add a page from wherever they are.
Instead of collecting cash in an envelope, people can gift toward the printing — $1.25 covers one page.
Nobody has to chase people for photos, resize anything, or paste messages into a document at 11pm.
Writing a paragraph privately is easier than speaking at a party, so you hear from people who would otherwise just sign the card.
A 10-inch square matte hardcover with a printed spine — the kind of thing that lives on a shelf, not in a box in the garage.
Every contribution is laid out for you, so the finished book looks polished no matter who sent what.
Put two or three of these in the invitation and the messages that come back will surprise you.
Setting up the project and collecting messages is free. If the team gifts pages, the printing is often covered before you order.
Create the project, invite everyone, and gather photos and stories for free. You only pay if you print.
A 10-inch square matte hardcover with matte interior pages, plus shipping. Extra pages are $1.25 each.
Friends and family can chip in toward printing — each $1.25 covers one page of the finished book.
Two to three weeks is comfortable: about ten days for contributions, then roughly 96 hours of printing plus shipping. If you're tighter than that, download the free PDF for the party and order the printed copy afterward.
No. They open the link, upload up to three photos, write their message and leave an email address. That matters for reaching retired colleagues and clients who won't sign up for anything.
Yes. Set the project to private so it isn't listed publicly, and share the link only with the people you're inviting to contribute.
Yes — one person can order it and expense it, or the team can gift pages individually at $1.25 each and cover it together.
Roughly one page per contributor, plus a cover. A 40-person team makes about a 40-page book, which is $59.95 — $34.95 for the first 20 pages plus $1.25 for each page after.
Yes. Additional copies of the finished book can be ordered for the department, their family, or anyone who asks after seeing it.
Other group occasions people use Memory Booked for.
Start the project, send one link to everyone who worked with them, and hand over something they'll still have in twenty years.
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