Gift ribbons - meaning, strips of stuff to wrap around a package... not just ribbon! Here's what I mean...
 

• Recycled ribbons from earlier years of gift-opening

• Raffia

• Crepe paper streamers (you can stretch the edges to make ruffles, fold them over to make them sturdier)

• Strips of plastic wrap or cellophane or aluminum foil (though you can’t tie the foil!)

• Commercial Christmas garlands

• Strips of fabric or decorative netting
    
• Silken cording
   
• A jump rope, on a larger box (for a kid, or for an adult exerciser?)

• Strips of colorful paper (solid-colored, magazine photos, wallpaper borders, what-have-you; perhaps cut with design-edging scissors)
    
• Luggage straps

• Shoelaces (if you use two, they have a pair to use!)

• Neckties

• Suspenders

• Lengths of lace

• Necklaces or strings of beads (pop beads!)
   
• Soutache braid and other cording

• Strands of real fabric ribbon (a gift in itself - some are unbelievably gorgeous!)

• Or try some of the flatter garlands mentioned in the Garlands section (for instance, see "Paper Rickrack" or "Gum Wrapper Chain" in Instructions)

• Entirely faux ribbon! - a design that’s only painted on (or stamped; or bits of things glued on in a row; or made with colored tape; etc.)

• Plumber’s tape, electrical tape, or duct tape, for the man in your life?