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r/povertyfinance

2.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 129.3K upvotes, which works out to 45 per 1,000 members.

45peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.8Mmembers
129.3Kbest post
9.7Kmost comments
101posts 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.

79% 8%
Image 79% Gallery 8% Text 7% Video 3% Question 2% 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.

Success/Cheers 17 Links/Memes/Video 12 Budgeting/Saving/Investing/Spending 10 Misc Advice 8 Housing/Shelter/Standard of Living 7 Free talk 7 Vent/Rant (No Advice/Criticism!) 6 Income/Employment/Aid 4 Vent/Rant 3 Grocery Haul 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Moved into my first apartment today, on my 39th birthday! I have nothing but a bed and my cat, but I did it!

↑ 129.3K 💬 3.4K image 2020

Saved my first $5k at 26 pls clap 🥹

↑ 83.9K 💬 1.7K image 2024

Being poor is expensive

↑ 83.6K 💬 1.4K image 2020

I paid for my fiancé's engagement ring selling homemade pretzels, I am not ashamed lol

↑ 76.9K 💬 2.2K image 2025

My son wanted a stuffed manta ray for his 5th birthday but I didn’t have money to buy one, so instead I converted his old baby blanket into one! (Han…

↑ 74.9K 💬 773 image 2021

I know it’s not much but I finally saved 800$ to pay cash for a car.

↑ 69.6K 💬 2.4K image 2022

So true it hurts

↑ 69K 💬 1.4K image 2019

Financial health is the best form of therapy

↑ 65.2K 💬 1.2K image 2020

Story Of My Life Sadly..

↑ 60.8K 💬 1K image 2022

I lost next to all of my belongings over the past year, suffered through homelessness/unemployment for several months and I finally got my first apar…

↑ 57.2K 💬 1.1K image 2022

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