If you're tired of pulling out coffee mugs and cups from your dishwasher and have water spill all over your floor, you may not be loading them correctly.

my mom told me that the proper way to put them in the dishwasher was to mix them up so that they don’t “nest” together.

There isn’t a standardized icon to indicate that dishes are dishwasher-safe, but many resemble an open dishwasher. (See the printable guide for an example.) If a dish bears a dishwasher-like icon with ...