I don't know how I lived before my SpotBot.Life is so much easier now. The day I received my machine someone in my family dropped food with ketchup on our white area rug. I went and grabbed the machine, put it on the spot. One run the area was cleaned. I also used it on set-up makeup stains from when my toddler grabbed my mascara and non-removable lipstick. There were pink and black stains throughout the upstairs. I had attempted various types of removal nothing worked. I put the SpotBot on top of a really bad pink on and ran it through the set-in stain mode. Before my eyes it was gone. I did that for the rest of them too. Great thing is that you sit it down and you can do something else at the same time. It beeps when it's done.