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Make your kitchen work for you.
If you don't know what a garbage bowl is, learn more at The Kitchn.
Liners make it infinitely easier to clean your slow cooker. And you can easily cook two things at once, or at least keep two different dips warm on the table — learn how to do it here, and get liners here for $6.50.
It will help prevent burns on your pan, and will give you more tasty stuff for making gravy. Get the recipe for this delicious roast turkey here.
Then when it's all said and done, you can just pull the foil off and have just a thin layer of grease to contend with. From here.
It will make anything unexpected come off the pan so much more easily. Here's a homemade recipe, but store-bought also works wonders!
Then when you're done cooking, you simply ball it up and toss it. From here.
Then if you have someone on dishes duty, they can wash as dishes get dropped in, or at least rinse and load the dishwasher. These tubs are $8.99 at Ikea, but you can also find tubs at Walmart and Target.
This makes it easy to pre-rinse it all before you wash it however you're going to wash it (whether that's by hand or in the dishwasher). Get more dishwasher-loading tips here.
Get as many dishes in as possible without compromising your dishwasher's ability to do it's job. This varies a bit depending on your dishwasher model, so you can also double check your dishwasher's user manual for the best loading configurations. But if you're not sure where that is, you can learn more about these four basic rules at Good Housekeeping.
This leaves your sink, sponge, dishwater, etc. all cleaner than washing the dirtiest dish first would. Get more handwashing tips here.
Read more about why this works at Martha Stewart.
These won't damage your nonstick pans as long as the scrapers are plastic, and they are really helpful when you run into sticky food that even the tough side of the sponge can't tackle. This one's just $1.95 here.
And remember, after cleanup is done, you can go FINALLY relax!