Product review (3 stars): Works in a pinch
I'm really glad I purchased this product. It does the job in a pinch.
Cons:
1) towels do not wash well in this. My first load of towels I put very little detergent in, as I would any load. They produced so many suds I couldn't rinse them enough. Thank god they were just my cat washing towels. Also the towels dry out very hard. I'm not sure if it's because I couldn't get them rinsed all the way or if the spin dryer is too rough on them.
2) cotton items such as my undershirts stretch out so bad they don't ever go back to normal.
3)  the lint trap inside the machine seems pretty useless. Maybe it's just me. The teeth mess up easily. The teeth on mine actually came all bent up.
Pros:
1) it's convenient. I live in an urban apartment with no laundry hookups.
2) it washes my scrubs really well. One day I came home with poo on my pants and thank god I had this machine to wash them! The other options would have been to go to the laundromat(ugh) or bag them up and wait. Just so you know bagging up poo covered scrubs until laundry day an be a horrible thing. If I had done that I may as well just throw them away.
3)it's great for washing cleaning items