# Clean up standard properties

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/clean-up-standard-properties/70907>\
**Category:** Data Hub\
**Tags:** properties\
**Created:** [December 9, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/clean-up-standard-properties/70907 "2022-12-09T11:59:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TAlfrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TAlfrink](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TAlfrink)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/clean-up-standard-properties/70907/1 "2022-12-09T11:59:33Z")

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Just started a company, made a Hubspot account, and to my surprise there were already 180 properties on just the contact record. I don’t remember ordering those 🙂  
There’s about 20 of them that I want to use, but I’ve noticed that some of them are also used by standard Hubspot functionality (like facebook integration etc).  
What would happen if I just flat out deleted the other 160? Would everything break? How easy would it be to restore a property that turned out to be necessary?  
I refuse to work with properties that I don’t understand, and I don’t have time to study all 180 of them

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/clean-up-standard-properties/70907/2 "2022-12-09T12:03:17Z")

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Hi @TAlfrink,

You can archive properties and, if you notice that something breaks, restore them within 90 days: [Organize, delete, and export properties](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/crm-setup/organize-and-export-properties#restore-or-permanently-delete-archived-properties)

HubSpot won’t let you archive system critical properties, so you shouldn’t encounter any situations where you archive a property and then encounter errors. Properties in use can’t be archived / deleted.

My general recommendation, as someone who’s set up and managed dozens of portal: Don’t spend too much time trying to clean these up. Simply don’t use those that you don’t need and ignore the rest.

This is a great resource for getting an understanding of what is there already: [HubSpot's default contact properties](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/hubspots-default-contact-properties)

Reviewing this page makes it less likely that you’re creating properties which already exist.

Hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![TAlfrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TAlfrink](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TAlfrink)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/clean-up-standard-properties/70907/3 "2022-12-12T07:05:07Z")

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HubSpot won’t let you archive system critical properties, so you shouldn’t encounter any situations where you archive a property and then encounter errors. Properties in use can’t be archived / deleted.  
This is what I needed to hear. Thank you