Product review (5 stars): Excellent buy for apartment dwellers with babies or children
My husband was a skeptic about this purchase, but now he really appreciates it!  We live in a small apartment  built in the 1800's and we have no connections for a larger washer.  We despise the laundromat, and often use a full-size washer in a friend's location, but wanted something to wash a "change of clothes" or stained items that can't wait, or baby wipes (we use cloth ones) or baby clothes.  I do a lot of line drying in the summer, and had been washing by hand in the sink.  However, this restricts the usage of the sink by my husband, which is frustrating to him!  So, I saw this and thought I'd give it a try for $50, and I am so happy that I did!

It is compact and stores easily out of the way.  It is extremely easy to use, although I recommend using as little detergent as you can get away with until you are accustomed to the unit.  Since it is a simple agitating unit, you will need to do a first cycle to wash, then drain your clothes into the sink (holding the lid to keep the clothes inside) and then a second cycle to rinse (or add fabric softener as well.)

For the price, and for our needs with small children, this is a bargain.  It helps me from ruining stained baby and children's clothes while I'm waiting to amass a load large enough to take to the laundromat or friend's full-size washer.  If you had to, I would imagine it's great for emergency washing of cloth baby diapers. It is also good for soaking several items of adult clothing that may be stained, but it will not hold very many adult sized items at one time.  I find that if I overload it with larger items, the water leaks out of the top of the tub and onto the base, which is undesirable because the base is electric.

Overall, however, I am very impressed as its agitation is plenty to remove stains and dirt just as well as a larger washer, and using hot water from the tap is enough to facilitate the stain removal as well.  Since it will not spin to remove any of the rinse water from the clothing, we are planning to buy a centrifugal portable dryer from Amazon in the winter months, as it will be impossible to continue to line dry where we live.

I would recommend this to any apartment dweller, traveler, mom of small children or infants or disgruntled laundromat user!