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r/BuyItForLife

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 55.6K upvotes, which works out to 14 per 1,000 members.

14peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4Mmembers
55.6Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
902posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

38% 29% 22% 10%
Text 38% Question 29% Image 22% Gallery 10% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

[Request] 427 Discussion 224 Vintage 89 Review 55 Currently sold 19 Repair 18 [Request] Answered! 17 Warranty 7 BIFL Skills 5 Meta 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I'd just like to encourage everyone never to buy a TomTom GPS. They've classified my 2-year-old unit as "obsolete" and will no longer provide "lifeti…

↑ 55.6K 💬 2.2K question 2018

Unpopular opinion, If I can not buy it new now, then it should not be on this sub.

↑ 44.7K 💬 947 text 2020

My 1988 Honda Accord daily driver. Everything on it still works. EVERYTHING.

↑ 41.7K 💬 1.4K image 2023

I bought a GPS with free lifetime map updates 15 years ago. Despite being made obsolete due to smartphones, Garmin continues to release regular map u…

↑ 40.4K 💬 856 image 2026

Meanwhile, 13 billion miles away

↑ 40K 💬 735 image 2017

Since we are doing clocks. Here is mine from the 90s.

↑ 37.3K 💬 523 image 2022

Sandals made from recycled truck tyres. Bought 25 years ago in Tanzania. They refuse to wear out.

↑ 32.7K 💬 931 image 2026

My in-laws were brilliant: Le Creuset, purchased 1977

↑ 32.3K 💬 477 image 2017

I gave my dad this batman wallet 10 years ago, I was like 4 or 5 years old and I got it in preschool. He uses it to this day

↑ 32K 💬 417 gallery 2025

Thank you and most likely farewell.

↑ 31.8K 💬 1.1K text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BuyItForLife, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/BuyItForLife have?
r/BuyItForLife has about 4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 902 of its posts; the biggest reached 55.6K upvotes, which is 14 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BuyItForLife?
"I'd just like to encourage everyone never to buy a TomTom GPS. They've classified my 2-year-old unit as "obsolete" and will no longer provid" reached 55.6K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BuyItForLife.
What subreddits are similar to r/BuyItForLife?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/BuyItForLife?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are text posts and 29% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BuyItForLife?
Across 902 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 03:00 UTC (14.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (13.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 03:00 UTC (10K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BuyItForLife?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BuyItForLife has 22K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/BuyItForLife, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.