The Bad Decisions H3 Hashy Gift Exchange (HGX) is limited to hashers who have done at least one of our international virtual r*ns during the year prior to November 1st.
Signing Up:
Eligible kennel members will receive a link for the sign-up form. Participants may choose to limit sending a gift to their home continent or to send a gift globally.
Email Confirmation:
After kennel members sign up, we will contact participants via email to ask them to confirm participation and understanding of the gift-mailing deadline. We are not trying to be dicks, we just want to do our best to prevent people from receiving gifts 3 or 4 months later. [Which has happened A LOT in the previous exchanges.] Emails will be sent from: BDH3-HGX [@gmx.co.uk]. We ask that participants send a message back to confirm receipt/compliance with the mailing deadline. Confirmed participants will be added to the Facebook Event. People who fail to confirm by the deadline will be removed from the programme.
Name Drawing:
Participants will be given the name and address of a randomly drawn kennel member to mail a hashy gift to (approximately £15/€15/$15 minimum value); something from your local kennel or just hashy in general. We do our best to not have people sending to/receiving from someone they were already matched with in another exchange during either the current year or previous year.
Sending Gifts:
Some important things to remember when sending a gift within this exchange:
The “Hashy” part of “Hashy Gift Exchange” refers to gifts that are hash-related, not just that the exchange is for hashers. Ideally your gift would be from a kennel, H3Bazaar.com, BDH3 Hab from Epi (BDH3 Co-haberdasher), something personalised with their Hash Name from Etsy or Amazon, an item from our online storefront, something you make, etc.
The gifts should be sent 'From your BDH3 Santa' or 'From your Bad Decisions H3 Santa' along with your Hash Name. This is important because several hashers participate in multiple gift exchanges. We do not want to have to chase after you with pitchforks if your gift recipient tells us they didn’t get a BDH3 gift. For example, Cunning Linguist would put: 'From your BDH3 Santa, Cunning Linguist'.
If you purchase a gift from an online vendor that doesn’t allow a note to be included (like our online store) or that you may not trust to send a note (Etsy & Amazon vendors) please send a card in the mail letting them know their gift will be arriving from a third-party vendor.
Please do not wait until after the mailing deadline date to order your gift from a third-party vendor, to be shipped days or even weeks later.
Once the names are randomly drawn, they're drawn. Gift recipient information is emailed to participants immediately after the names are drawn. Please do not contact us after the deadline asking to be 'just added in' because we cannot add you to something that is already finished.
Tracking is not required but strongly encouraged. If you send us the tracking number, we can forward it to your gift recipient.
USA APO addresses: if you also have a local address in the country where you live and can receive gifts at that address, please include both addresses on your sign-up form in case your Santa is in the country/region where you live.
2025 Hashy Gift Exchange (HGX) Important Dates:
Signups open: Monday, 17 November 2025
Signups close: Sunday, 23 November 2025
Confirmation You Will Mail Your Gift By The Deadline: Monday, 24 November 2025
Gift Recipient Name Drawing: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
****Mail gift no later than Saturday, 06 December 2025****
If your gift recipient is in another country or you don't have a local kennel, you may want to look into third-party sellers for your gift:
Online Hab Bazaar
H3Bazaar.com
Double Dipped offers products with international shipping:
https://h3bazaar.com/vendor/3dh3/
Bad Decisions H3 Online Storefronts (international shipping available)
https://www.baddecisionsh3.com/haberdashery/online-storefronts
Bad Decisions H3 Hab from Epi (BDH3 Co-haberdasher):
EpiPenis[at]hotmail.com or Epi Pocopota on FB.
Some other options for personalised gear, Malört gear, etc:
Etsy.com (can find vendors in gift recipient's country and/or products with international shipping available)
For the hasher that already has everything … or if you want to send something extra … or give yourself a gift ...
If you’d like to send something edible, this is a Hasher-owned business that ships to continental USA addresses:
https://departmentofsugar.com/
We reserve the right to deny participation in the exchange if a person has proven themselves to be unreliable in one of our previous holiday exchanges.