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Coolers can feel like the workhorse of summer, destined for holding our food for camping trips or keeping drinks cold at the beach. But coolers can save your sanity during the holidays, too. A cooler (or two) can do more than just hold Thanksgiving wine and cider — it can also do double duty as either extra fridge space or as a warming drawer for sides and pies while you wait for the turkey to roast. Here are two easy ways to put a cooler to work for a holiday.

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Costco shoppers adore this bulk grocer for stocking up on everything from toilet paper to breakfast sandwich supplies, but if you haven’t stepped inside a Costco in a while, you might not know that this store is also the ideal one-stop shop for Thanksgiving.

Costco carries frozen and fully cooked turkeys and hams, 20-pound bags of potatoes, pumpkin pies, and cases of wine perfect for feeding a crowd at the holidays.

Here’s a guide for making Costco your one-stop holiday shop for Thanksgiving.

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One of the best things about biscuits is their versatility. They can be sweet or savory, light and airy, or dense and buttery. There are drop biscuits that require nothing more than a brisk stir to bring the ingredients together and there are rolled biscuits, which can be pulled apart and slathered with clotted cream and jam. Biscuits can be as simple as three ingredients (or even fewer!), or they can be super whomped up with cheese and herbs and salty morsels of country ham.

Even better, biscuits are a communal food, one that’s meant to be shared — which makes them perfect for the holiday season. Impress houseguests with a batch of homemade biscuits for breakfast. Or serve them in lieu of dinner rolls with your turkey this year.

Regardless of your biscuit preference, make it a goal to master at least one recipe; one you can make again and again with great success. Nearly everyone has an opinion on the best way to make them. Some swear by chilling the flour, cutter, and bowl. Others say self-rising flour is better than all-purpose. The best thing to do, I believe, is to just make them and figure out what feels best to you.

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One of my favorite artifacts of my early relationship with my now-husband is a Facebook post he left me in February of 2008. It was the spring of our senior year in high school. He was an 18-year-old, Birkenstock-wearing, slightly overconfident soccer player who had probably spoken a grand total of 22 words to me in the five years we had been going to school together.

Thanks again for the cupcakes. They were honestly the best.

Even then, at the height of my high school’s Facebook obsession, he was more or less silent on social media, so his digital plug for my baking came as a total surprise — honestly.

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The party problem: You don’t have enough dessert plates and don’t want to use paper.

The party trick: Serve dessert on cedar grilling planks.

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Let’s be honest here — if you are shopping at Costco for Thanksgiving, chances are you are feeding a crowd. Feeding not just your immediate family, but also your friends, neighbors, and extended family means that beyond buying your turkeys and hams (yes, you’ll need multiples of both), you’re also going to need more plates, more tables, and more wine.

Given that, here are three things your should pick up at Costco for Thanksgiving.

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We’ve all been relegated to the kids’ table at some too-late-in-life point. You remember it well: the beat-up folding table covered in a sad plastic tablecloth, complete with paper plates and mismatched, uncomfortable chairs. There was nothing chic or entertaining about it. But oh, how that’s changed for the kiddos growing up post-Pinterest.

Today’s Thanksgiving kids’ tables are bold, colorful, and often loaded with activities to keep little hands busy. It’s truly a win-win-win: The kids are preoccupied, the adults can enjoy the meal, and you get something fun for Instagram.

Use any of the ideas featured here, and your second cousin might not mind that she doesn’t get a seat with the adults.

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If you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, chances are you don’t have time to run around to a million stores to pick up everything you need. Luckily, there are some great places to find all the necessary supplies (in person and online).

Keep reading to check out our four favorite one-stop options (in no particular order) that’ll have it all.

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