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August is when my budget taps out. Summer travel. Summer electric bills (because AC is a serious matter where I live). And, because these things are clearly coordinated, I reached into my couponing stockpile cabinet last week and realized I was on my last bottle of shampoo, last body wash, and last stick of deodorant.
But then I came across a deal that's paying me to restock at Family Dollar. Right now, if you spend $15 on select Unilever personal care products, you get $5 back to spend on your next purchase. The best part? You can use this offer once a month.
A $5 credit already sitting in my account for my next shopping trip is future-me money. Plus, this offer encourages me to do what I should be doing: Thinking ahead and stocking up. Because I can use this offer multiple times, instead of grabbing one bottle at a time and paying full price across separate trips, I'm strategically spending $15 on things I'm going to run out of, growing my stockpile, and banking $5 for the next time, each time.
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How the Offer Works
This offer has two parts: You earn the $5, then you redeem it.
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Create a Family Dollar account if you don't already have one.
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Sign in to your Family Dollar account.
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Find the 'Unilever Brands Products’ coupon: $5 off your NEXT purchase when you spend $15 or more on Unilever Brands Products. You can filter by the personal care category to make finding it easier.
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Buy $15 worth of Unilever beauty and personal care products at your local Family Dollar. At checkout, enter the phone number associated with your account.
You just unlocked your $5 (it may take a day or two to show up in your account)! Here's how to redeem it:
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Log in to your Family Dollar account and head back to the coupons page.
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Find the unlocked $5-off-your-next-purchase Unilever offer waiting there, and clip that one too.
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Spend at least $5 on anything at Family Dollar. The $5 comes off right at checkout.
Two rules to know in advance:
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The $15 has to happen in one transaction. You can't buy $8 of shampoo today and $7 of body wash Thursday and expect it to count. One trip, one receipt to unlock the $5.
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You can use this once a month, up to 12 times a year. So try not to go too much over $15 in one transaction. Instead, plan several close-to-$15 stock-up trips on the stuff you need, so that you can run this deal multiple times.
Which Products Count Toward the $15
The qualifying lineup covers most of a normal restock list, not obscure stuff you'd never buy. These are the ones on my list and the prices at my nearest store (prices near you may vary):
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Dove Men+Care Body & Face Wash, Clean Comfort, 13.5-oz. ($6)
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Axe Body Spray, Apollo, 4-oz. ($6.50)
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Degree Women Antiperspirant Stick, Pure Clean, 2.6-oz. ($6.35)
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SheaMoisture Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie, 10-oz. ($12)
How I'd Hit $15 Without Overspending
The trick with this deal (like any threshold deal) is landing just over the line with things you'd have bought anyway, so that you unlock the $5 (and still have a few things left on your list for the next month). I'm not dumping my whole list in one basket and losing out on a chance to get another $5.
Here's how I'm going about it:
Month 1 ($18 basket): Dove Deep Moisture Body Wash, Dove Men+Care Body & Face Wash (for my husband), and the TRESemmé. I'm knocking out two of the things I'm out of and that my house burns through (the shampoo and body wash), knowing my stick of deodorant will last me until month two (hopefully).
Month 2 ($18.65 basket): The Degree deodorant, the Axe Apollo spray, and Vaseline.
Month 3 ($17.80 basket): SheaMoisture Curl Smoothie and another Vaseline for my medicine cabinet.
This plan has me spending about $54 on stuff I actually need and earning three $5 rewards to spend on other things at Family Dollar (a 28% return on my spending).
What I'm Doing With My $5 Rewards
Those $5 coupons I'm earning are going toward even more stock-ups, and you can use them on anything. I'll probably use them on other Unilever personal care items I missed in the first stock-up. The $5 coupons stack with Family Dollar's Saturday coupon, by the way, so I know which day of the week I'm going to Family Dollar every time I have $5 to redeem.
The Bottom Line: I'm buying the stuff I was already buying in a strategic order, restocking my bathroom cabinet, and unlocking savings that I'll be glad to have because money's about to get tight again around the holidays.
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