About r/CleaningTips
In its own words:
Join the CleaningTips community for helpful tips and advice on keeping your living spaces clean and organized. Share your own experiences and learn from others in a friendly and supportive environment.
Community guide
r/CleaningTips (#462) draws about 2.4 million members as join the CleaningTips community for helpful tips and advice on keeping your living spaces clean and organized. Share your own experiences and learn from others in a friendly and supportive environment. Collected rules highlight Advertising and self-promotion of products or services is strictly forbidden; Be respectful; and All posts must be cleaning related, among 9 listed. Activity mix in sample: image:230, text:210, gallery:205, link:31. Busy sample (~108.8 ppd across 679 posts).
Who this sub is for
Readers land here for join the CleaningTips community for helpful tips and advice on keeping your living spaces clean and organized. Share your own experiences and learn from others in a friendly and supportive environment. If your post fits a narrower specialist sub better, prefer that room.
Boundaries vs lookalike rooms
General or sibling communities may overlap thematically; r/CleaningTips still enforces its own list—Advertising and self-promotion of products or services is strictly forbidden; Be respectful; All posts must be cleaning related; No cleaning chemical combinations of products intended to be used on their own. Don’t assume another sub’s norms travel here.
Practical pointers
Busy sample (~108.8 ppd across 679 posts). Mark spoilers/NSFW when required, avoid reposts if banned, and keep promo within policy. Figures above are SubMouse snapshots.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 15, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 4,233 subscribers (+0.18%). It sits just behind r/AbruptChaos (#461) and ahead of r/flexibility (#463) in our ranking.
What sets r/CleaningTips apart
For its size it is unusually busy: about 44.9 new posts a day per million members, more than 89% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.15% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 97% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (16:00 UTC) sees about 6.8× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/CleaningTips went up from 2,396,347 to 2,423,907 subscribers (+27.6K, +1.15%). That is about 626 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/CleaningTips talks about
Across 679 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “clean”, “cleaning”, “help”, “stain” and “stains”. Other frequent themes are remove, shower, mold, floor, smell and advice. Recurring phrases include “help cleaning”, “cleaning help”, “shower floor” and “hard water”. By format, 34% are images, 31% are text posts and 30% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: General Cleaning (138), Kitchen (111), Bathroom (95), Discussion (92), Laundry (88), Furniture (49).
Activity and best time to post
r/CleaningTips gets about 110 new posts a day. The public archive holds 297,440 posts and 3,064,197 comments in total, about 10.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (125 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (86). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/CleaningTips
The moderators of r/CleaningTips list 9 rules. In short:
- Advertising and self-promotion of products or services is strictly forbidden
- Be respectful.
- All posts must be cleaning related.
- No cleaning chemical combinations of products intended to be used on their own
- No meme posts
- NSFW tag is required on photos depicting bodily fluids or human waste
- Be positive and helpful
- No AI-generated content is permitted
- No Relationship Mentions in Posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/CleaningTips and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/CleaningTips?
r/CleaningTips has 2,423,907 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #462 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 27,560 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/CleaningTips?
r/CleaningTips was created on Jan 15, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years.
How active is r/CleaningTips?
Very active: r/CleaningTips gets about 110 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 297,440 posts and 3,064,197 comments. In a sample of 679 recent posts we counted 651 different authors.
When is r/CleaningTips most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/CleaningTips about?
The community describes itself as: “Join the CleaningTips community for helpful tips and advice on keeping your living spaces clean and organized. Share your own experiences and learn from others in a friendly and supportive environment.” Recent post titles often mention clean, cleaning, help, stain and stains. Most posts are images (34%).
Is r/CleaningTips safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/CleaningTips as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/CleaningTips?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/CleaningTips accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Advertising and self-promotion of products or services is strictly forbidden”; “Be respectful.”; “All posts must be cleaning related.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/CleaningTips?
Communities with similar topics include r/productivity (4.3M), r/LifeProTips (23.1M), r/GetStudying (3.3M), r/Outdoors (5.1M) and r/TravelHacks (5.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/CleaningTips.