Brown paper

[jj21]

I would like to wrap the presents in brown paper, and tie with a different colour ribbon for each person. I am hoping this will be a bit more eco-friendly than printed paper, but will also be left with lots of ribbons to reuse for crafts with the kids so I everyone will be happy. However, I am struggling to find thin enough brown paper - the stuff I bought on ebay is like sugar paper: great for outer wrapping for parcels through the post, not so good for little presents under the tree. Has anyone seen any anywhere? Kraft paper or similar would be great. Just haven't found any anywhere I have been.

Thanks!

Is it eco friendly?
What about all the packaging stuff comes in?

Your adding more packaging to things already packaged? Surely being eco friendly would be to cover all the presents under a cloth or pretty xmas table cloth? And not wrap them at all?

I've bought some recently from the Card Factory. Really good quality and price.

My grannie was eco-friendly. All paper and ribbon was saved and used again and again. She never used tape, just the ribbon to fasten it all.

I've used brown paper from Poundland before. It's strong but quite thin which is what you want. There's lots on a roll too.
I often use brown paper which I stamp with snowflakes or stars. I like that look more than the highly patterned wrapping papers.

I think you can buy rolls of brown paper in the post office (larger ones, not just where they have a counter obvs) I used it last year, and got some great, cheap ribbon from Wilkinsons.

Or a large xmas sack and pop presents in.

ikea. i know they sell it at christmas time but they may sell it year round.

No, not all about eco-friendly , just think it will look nice and be slightly eco-friendly as a by-product because no chemical inks used. Also, will stop arguments from kids as I normally use different paper for each one and last year they found the rolls in advance and bickered over who was having which one. (On the day, they don't care, obviously, and that particular line of argument was quickly stopped with the comment that no-one would get any presents if we argued over the jolly wrapping paper!)

Thanks for all the suggestions, will start with Poundland as I am going near one next week.