This is not a dream. The top rack of your dishwasher is (probably) adjustable. Whatever height you always left it at, that was only one of multiple options. Go, adjust it. Now you can fit your pans and platters in the bottom rack - or now you can fit tall glasses and crockery in the top rack. You can even remove the top rack entirely. You are Doctor Strange; you are Neo; you are the Inception lady who can draw a maze real fast.

This video, from Nonnahs Driskill and Get Organised Already!, is packed with tips to save kitchen counter space and make sure dirty dishes get into the dishwasher (and the clean ones back out.) Anyone with a small kitchen -- or who lives with another person -- can find something here to try.

People fight over the best way to load the dishwasher. Forks with tines up or down, pots on the top or bottom -- luckily, it's all meaningless. Your specific model probably has a "right way", and it's buried in the back of its owner's manual.

Just because that fancy washing box in your kitchen is called a dishwasher doesn't mean that's the only thing it can wash. You can also clean things like gardening tools and plastic toys with it.

Hard water will leave your dishes looking foggy and dirty no matter how good your dishwashing detergent is. Adding a little citric acid to your dishwasher loads can help.