Links

 

Links to other tacky sites

  • Centre for the Easily Amused
    Cathie Walker, "Queen of the Internet," runs the best "Top Fun Sites" collection there is, but her site is so much fun that people don't want to leave. See for yourself..
     
  • IShouldBeWorking.com
    Our heaviest traffic occurs during office hours. When you're done here, check this site to maintain your productivity. Humor improves morale.
     
  • Office Playground
    Toys for your office. Some are seriously tacky. Our favorite, of course, is the Nose Pencil Sharpener.
     
  • Tacky Living
    Motto: "Gracious living...with a difference!" I'll say. Find out how to "make your own miniature yard butts."
     
  • Icepick
    Some guy in Holland has wired everything in his house to the Internet -- his doorbell, his phone, his refrigerator, his toilet. He even scans barcodes of everthing he throws away so you can see an inventory of his trash. WAY beyond the tiresome snoopy-cam trend.
     
  • Quantity Postcards
    The people who discovered the Del Ray Motel post cards have lots more, and they´re all for sale at their site.
     
  • Pulp Fiction Postcards
    If you liked Greenwich Village Girl, you'll find it and even tackier cards at Jeff Luther's site, where you can BUY the genuine article.
     
  • BadArt.com
    No, not post cards. Art. Breathtakingly bad art. This award-winning collection includes perhaps the world's most unfortunate examples of oil paint ever applied to canvas. The Louvre of Loopy Art.
     
  • Maid in the Shade
    Home of some of the best intentionally tacky cards. If you´ve read our Friend or Faux page, you´ve seen one of these. Here are the rest.
     
  • Swedish Tacky Postcards
    In addition to some fun analysis of 1950s advertising design, Christian Liljeberg´s site includes what may be the world's largest collection of post cards featuring photos of buildings in Sweden. 
     
  • The Tacky Postcard Pages
    There aren't many post cards here but, unlike some sites, this one is not diluted with any tasteful cards. Every one of them is tacky.
     
  • Keith's Postcard Collection
    Keith, in Singapore, has some pretty tacky ones. But be warned: his site also includes several tasteful cards, as well.
     
  • The Greenacres Tacky Postcard Page
    Post cards sent from various places to a university physics research lab in Canberra, Australia. Some are quite tacky.
     
  • Tacky Christmas Lights
    Just in time for the holidays. Gigawatts of garish displays guaranteed to take the edge off the annual Season of Relentless Retailing.

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Friends of the Archive

  • TreeGivers
    Millions of trees have been sacrificed to make tacky post cards. Now you can give one back. Makes a great gift for a friend.
     
  • The Tomorrow Fund
    These people mix humor and compassion to help children with cancer. So we loaned them some tacky post cards. Drop by and send one.
     
  • Surprisingly Useful Devices for the Web
    Makers of the amazing TackyMatic! And many other goodies.
     
  • Poetry is Dead
    Remember this name: Jerry Grau. Click the link now, while you can still read some of his work without buying an expensive book. Any minute now his publisher is going to pull the plug and make us pay.
     
  • Tacky Times
    Oops. Clark Wells' wonderfully tacky site appears to be gone for now. We'll let you know if it reappears..
     
  • Postcard Links
    If our cards are too tacky for you, look here for hundreds of other e-card sites in well-organized categories.
     
  • Millennium Postcard Links
    If you're overwhelmed by vast lists of links, try this page with three dozen hand-picked e-card sites.
     
  • Postcards from Ireland circa AD 1910
    Margaret and Jonathan Skean´s fine collection of historic post cards from Ireland (you'll see some here).
     
  • Starting Page
    Carefully chosen links to "Best of the Web" sites in dozens of well-organized categories.
     
  • TigerX Communications
    Web hosting company with a very interesting site chock full of links to everything imaginable.
     
  • ToonVoices Unlimited
    Howard Hoffman does voice-overs for a living, and his site is even more fun than his job must be.
     
  • Jokesandhumor.com
    A new joke every day. How do they DO that?
     
  • Honk Your Gong, Sing Along
    Wacky songs collected by two teens talented enough to be interesting.
     
  • Camp Chaos
    Animation studio with cartoons and other things I can't possibly describe.
     
  • Chadduck Enterprises
    Web site designs that get noticed with FUN web pages.
     
  • Marine Corps Wives Website
    Huge site with 1,000+ pages of information & entertainment for wives & families of active-duty Marines.

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Free stuff sites
Since our post cards are free, the following sites were kind enough to add links to The Tacky Postcard Archive.

  • A+ Free Stuff
    A site for people who love a good bargain. Updated daily.
     
  • All-4-Free Freebie Tree
    Award-winning design, sensible categories, updated daily.
     
  • Brian's Free Zone
    Created by a talented high-school freshman, this site is new and growing quickly.
     
  • Cool Freebie Links
    A common-sense guide to freebies on the Net.
     
  • Freaky Freddie's Free Funhouse
    "If it ain't free, it's not for me," says Freddie, who has 64 categories of free stuff. Updated daily.
     
  • Free-n-Cool
    Links to hundreds of sites offering free gifts, samples, software, catalogs, magazines, sweepstakes and more. Updated daily..
     
  • Free Stuff Center
    24 categories of free stuff including books, magazines, software, merchandise, games and more.
     
  • Free Vault
    Comprehensive site with 1282 links. Updated daily.
     
  • Free.com
    Huge site with well organized categories for business, Internet, software, kids, merchandise, services and more.
     
  • The Free Site
    Interesting, different categories, including anonymous freebies, prank freebies and more. Updated daily.
     
  • Softbear Shareware
    Huge collection of shareware in dozens of well-organized categories.
     
  • The Southern Edge Free Stuff
    Organized diffrerently than other free-stuff sites, with categories for teachers, food, health, beauty, pets and more.
     
  • Your Daily Freebie
    Updated daily, with convenient search-by-date feature.

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Link exchange program

If you have a web site as tacky as this one, we'll be glad to add it here and refer the unwary directly to your site. Send your URL to the Archive Curator.

If you think your viewers can stand it, please put a link to The Tacky Postcard Archive on your site. We even have a selection of tacky banners you can use if you're so inclined. Please link to http://www.tackymail.com/.

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