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[quote=Anonymous]I think if it’s taking you 20 hours you are being an overachiever.  Pick one or two things you really like—for me it is cranberry sauce with cardormon and orange and the desserts.  The sauce takes 2 minutes so NbD and I spend  the time on the desserts. If they don’t like them, I will eat them all over the next week.
Turkey is boring but at least it’s easy.  Get a prebrined, throw some stuff in the cavity and put it in the oven.  Send people home with leftovers and drop a Tupperware with leftovers in one of dc’s many open air homeless shelters (ie parks).  
Pick one of either mashed potato or stuffing, whichever you prefer, or just pick that up from Harris teeter and don’t tell anyone you did.  (But Neither really takes more than 20 min. ) Pick one vegetable or do a salad.  (A nice thanksgiving salad is  spinach, craisins, cheddar or blue cheese, chopped apple or pear, maple-mustard dressing).  If people insist on sweet potatoes, that’s like a 10 minute project.  Make a kid mash them (and if kid is over 5, they can also mostly peel them).  (Again, this is one you can pick up from the store if it will make you happier not to cook them.)
Then absolutely make your husband clean up, unless he does half of the above.  Get some nice sparkling cider and wine and use your nice plates.  Then put your nice plates in the dishwasher even if your MiL says “you put those in the dishwasher????”  Just say “yes, I do!”  
Don’t aim to be the a+ student here—I feel like the extra effort in making fancy thanksgiving meals does not result in equivalent improvements in the meal so I just go traditional but minimalist.[/quote]

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