Product review (5 stars): I went crazy with this dryer!
I went crazy when this Nina Soft Spin Dryer arrived. DP and I do our own laundry. He goes to the laundromat and I wash my stuff mostly by hand. He hates going to the laundromat and lets his dirty laundry pile up into huge mounds. I've been doing the hand-washing almost two years without benefit of anything but my hands and a few tub trugs and a strainer basket, but ringing out the clothes is really rough on me and I can't do the best job. DP wanted to get a small portable washing machine (which we aren't supposed to have in our apartment because of problems with leaking), but the more I read reviews of what's out there, the more I knew I did not want to spend that much money on what seem to be, today, largely inferior products. So I got this Nina dryer and one of those breathing washer things. (The latter item is a disappointment because the handle keeps falling out; it'll work great if I glue the handle into it.)

But this dryer! I am so knocked-out thrilled with it that I wanted to wash all the dirty laundry in the house, not only mine but DP's. He had 2 sets of full-sized sheets (one mismatched with a queen-sized flannel top sheet), two shams, and a pillowcase that I said I would wash for him because I was having so much fun with this Nina dryer. After the aggravation with the loose breathing washer handle, I just slopped those sopping-wet sheets into the dryer. I didn't even try to balance them much. I did them in three loads and just threw the sheets in. The one flannel sheet I did by itself, and that was the only one that gave me some balancing problems that I had to rectify. The other two loads (a set of sheets in one, one bottom sheet and the shams and pillowcase in the other) settled into smooth spinning quickly after closing the lid. I just held the sides until the spinning got going good.

Everything went from sopping wet to spun out really close to dry in a minute or two. I didn't time it; I just watched for the water coming out to reduce to a bit of dribbling, then opened the lid to stop the dryer. I threw the load I'd just spun onto the bottom shelf of my dryer rack&mdash;no dripping!&mdash;started up another one, and then hung the first one. It was so EASY! Jiminy, if I had realized how wonderful this was going to be, I would have bought one of these Nina soft spin dryers two years ago! And the clothes came out smelling so fresh and clean (thanks in part to the breathing washer thing, ECOS HD instead of Tide, and a touch of vinegar in the rinse water), it was like clothes hung on the line in the breeze and sunshine when I was a child. I used to run through the sheets, and doing this laundry was a pleasant remembrance of the past.

I washed two pairs of my Costco Gloria Vanderbilt denim capris and spun both pairs at the same time. I spun them until the dripping stopped, then hung them to dry. Five hours later they were almost completely dry and wearable, with only a tiny bit of moisture at the thick waist band, and it was pretty humid. I also washed a particularly nasty thick reversible white cotton rug and spun it dry in the dryer. It got a lot cleaner than it ever has in a washing machine; the threads didn't unravel more like they would have it a washer; and it was fully dry about a day later. The six bamboo T-shirts were a breeze to wash and dry; I could have put one on right out of the Nina. I'm just knocked out...