If you have children, pets, sloppy adults of any kind, you need this machine. If you're the neatest person in the world with the neatest family on earth and the cleanest pets in the world, you need this thing. Everybody spills something at one time or another and I can't stress enough how convenient this little machine is to use and to store and how well it works! And how reasonably priced it is too! We love it!