Product review (2 stars): Get Ready to Wash for Hours & Get Your Hands Wet!
I bought one of these for my apartment and now I'm stuck with it, so I thought I reveiw it. I've used it about 4 times, but finally got frustrated and just go to the coin laundry now because I'm in and out in 45-50 min vs the 3-4 hours it takes to do laundry with this thing and an in-home clothes dryer thing (you've seen those too I'm sure!). First off, you need to put this thing in your shower or bathtub to use it, so you have to lug it around the apartment in order to use it (a hassle). Second, you have to get a special hose to get it to connect to the shower or bathtub spout, so get ready to have to buy a "Washing Machine Drain Hose Extension" in addition to this unit in order to even be able to use it properly (the flimsy thin tube they provide with the packaging is totally useless, believe me!!!). Third, when using it, you have "babysit" the entire procedure. You can't just throw a bunch of clothes in it and expect it to work on it's own like a normal washing machine. TO WIT: By "babysit" I mean you have to continually lift the top of the washer reservoir to move the clothes around in the hot water (yep, actually get your hands down in that hot laundry soapy water!) so that the clothes don't get tangled into an impossible spiders web, something you can't untangle (which they WILL if you leave it alone). Then, after you drain the hot soapy water, you have to re-fill it with cold water, and get your hands down in there AGAIN during the rinse. It's a total pain!  Then, for the Spin Dry side, you have to go 3-5 articles of clothing per spin, which is a huge time waster. All in all, 1 single load of a weeks worth of shorts and t-shirst would take me about 2 hours to totally complete and have ready to dry in the dryer machine (another waste of money item that I bought! Hahaha!). Anyways, hope this helps. I'd only buy this thing if I had no other way to wash clothes. At the coin laundry my clothes come out cleaner, softer, and everything gets done faster.  Thanks for reading!