My brother in law’s (BIL) lack of effort with his gifts is driving me crazy (Christmas gift conflict)

Tldr: my BIL doesn’t try at all with his gifts and I don’t know if I should say anything to him.<br><br>Christmas is over but the problem is still in my mind. <br><br>My husband (35M) and I (35F) have been hosting Christmas celebrations for his whole family together with our family ( parents, siblings, their spouses, nieces and nephews) for 6 years now because it’s just easier and our house (5 bedroom and a big living room) is big enough to have almost everyone inside.<br><br>With so many people, it’s almost impossible to buy gifts for everyone so we made the arrangement that every person only buys gifts for one person (secret Santa) and sets a price limit for the gifts. I chose my (23F) BIL this year and he chose me.<br><br>I always make an effort to find out what they would like as gifts for Christmas. This year I asked him as well. His answer was “anything is fine, I don’t really like celebrating Christmas because I’m an atheist and I don’t have money to buy gifts for everyone”. So I took the freedom to go for something I liked too in case he liked it too. I got him a gift card for a bookstore.<br><br>For the Christmas celebration, everyone brought their gifts and we were so happy to see all the smiley faces when everyone opened their gifts.<br><br>I got my lil BIL’s gift. So cheap (same price as mine lol), no wrapping paper, only tape and a (same as mine) gift card for 10$ to have a meal at Wendy’s. <br><br>I tried to be polite and thanked him but his parents looked at each other and his mom said “oh that’s so sweet! Where did you get the money for that from “ and then he (while still looking at his phone) said “ I got 10$ from my friend and didn’t want to spend it on myself so I used it to buy you a gift cause I thought it would be rude to not buy you a gift”. <br><br>I was speechless. <br><br>After dinner his mom approached me and said “you shouldn’t have spent that much money on him. I told him to at least put some effort into it but he didn’t and then I said fine but at least wrap the gift nicely but he said it’s stupid and he doesn’t want to waste money on wrapping paper.”<br><br>I didn’t answer, just nodded and smiled but inside I was fuming. I felt like I wasted my time and money on that stupid gift card when I could have just bought myself something nice with that money.<br><br>I didn’t say anything while they were still at the house but the whole thing is still bugging me. <br><br>I’m seriously thinking about talking to him about it and even considering to not buy him a gift anymore.<br><br>What would you do in my place?