← All communities
Reddit community

r/Frugal

6.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 50.2K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
6.8Mmembers
50.2Kbest post
10.6Kmost comments
101posts we track

Open r/Frugal on Reddit ↗

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.

69% 10% 9%
Image 69% Text 10% Link 9% Gallery 5% Question 4% Video 3%

The topics it labels

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

Frugal Win 🎉 11 🍎 Food 8 Food shopping 2 DIY 🚧 2 Opinion 2 Frugal Finds Friday ✨ 2 Budget 💰 2 Frugal Win 1 Personal care 🚿 1 DIY 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

UPDATE: 30 pounds of bananas

↑ 50.2K 💬 702 image 2023

I got bids from tile setters to do a backsplash for $2000. I ended up doing it myself for under $200.

↑ 49.9K 💬 1.5K image 2020

Oh hey! It only took 20 years, but my student loans are at zero as of today

↑ 48.1K 💬 1K image 2020

I work at a travel agency, and when we have to “destroy” our outdated maps, I reuse them as wrapping paper

↑ 47.3K 💬 602 image 2018

Girlfriend and I wanted a large mirror on our wall, but didn't want to spend $$$ so we found 6 small closet door mirrors on sale for $4 each

↑ 46.1K 💬 1K image 2018

My coworker eats the exact same $1.25 meal every day and I'm weirdly impressed

↑ 40.5K 💬 7K text 2025

Wedding for under $3K USD. Dress for $15 USD. This was right for us. [Cost breakdown and link to original post in comments.]

↑ 36K 💬 1.3K image 2020

How my under $25 Thanksgiving meal turned out! Surprisingly not bad at all….

↑ 35.2K 💬 687 image 2022

Wife was spending $5 for a piece of cake at Starbucks. We made two loafs for $12

↑ 33.4K 💬 630 gallery 2026

I think you'll like the gift I got from my frugal Aunt

↑ 32K 💬 790 image 2018

Communities its size

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

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Frugal, 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.