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Personal Finance For The Financially Challenged. A support group for those who are struggling financially! Financial advice, frugality tips, stories, opportunities, general guidance, and unconditional emotional support. No Judgement, just advice! Founded 2018 · 2.9M members

2.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 129.3K upvotes, which works out to 44 per 1,000 members.

44peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.9Mmembers
129.3Kbest post
9.7Kmost comments
912posts 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.

54% 25% 15%
Text 54% Question 25% Image 15% Gallery 5% Video 1% 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.

Debt/Loans/Credit 149 Misc Advice 146 Budgeting/Saving/Investing/Spending 125 Income/Employment/Aid 102 Free talk 93 Vent/Rant (No Advice/Criticism!) 80 Housing/Shelter/Standard of Living 74 Grocery Haul 50 Success/Cheers 35 Wellness 16

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

Communities its size

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

r/povertyfinance, in numbers

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

What is r/povertyfinance?
r/povertyfinance ("Personal Finance For The Financially Challenged") describes itself this way: A support group for those who are struggling financially! Financial advice, frugality tips, stories, opportunities, general guidance, and unconditional emotional support. No Judgement, just advice. It was founded in 2018 and has 2.9M members.
How many members does r/povertyfinance have?
r/povertyfinance has about 2.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 912 of its posts; the biggest reached 129.3K upvotes, which is 44 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/povertyfinance?
"Moved into my first apartment today, on my 39th birthday! I have nothing but a bed and my cat, but I did it!" reached 129.3K upvotes and 3.4K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/povertyfinance.
What subreddits are similar to r/povertyfinance?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/povertyfinance?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are text posts and 25% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/povertyfinance?
Across 912 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (27.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (25.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (20.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/povertyfinance?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/povertyfinance has 46K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 309 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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