Product review (3 stars): Need to save money, hate going to the laundry mat and don't mind buying lint rollers this is the machine for you
We bought this while traveling for work and living in hotels (living la vida per diem) for over a year. It's saved us a lot of money at the laundry mat and does about a quarter load per wash. Considering laundry mat sometimes charge $4 a load just to wash the cost of laundry can really add up. I estimate it took about 6 months and we had already saved the amount we spent on this washer.

With this machine for two people I need to do at least a load a day. It fits in a standard bathtub if you want. I've been using it over a year at this point. So even with all the negatives listed below I keep on carrying on with it while we save for a "normal" washer/dryer. Also at the laundry mat I'd get mysterious oil stains appearing after I washed the clothes and I was getting sick of my clothes being ruined not to mention lugging all the laundry there in the first place. I also heard someone talk about the things (germs etc) that are in the washers there and frankly I don't want to think to hard about that one.

On the downside the reviews about lint are true. There's lint everywhere. You didn't know so much lint exists till you use this washer and the little lint trap doesn't seem to collect anything. After buying many lint rollers I finally got the kind you can rinse off and reuse over and over again.

Also there's no fail safe so if you start the water filling up the washer and leave the room you can come back to a flooded room. Happened to me now three times. And because the washer is noisy enough (not too bad), but noisy enough you don't hear the water still running if you forgot to turn it off. I once flooded the room while I was in the room trying to be extra careful not to flood it again. I highly suggest getting a leak/water alarm (like the kind they use in basements) when you purchase this or setting it in a bathtub you're not using. (It's a little too bulky/heavy at least for me to move it in and out of a tub everyday.)

Another downside is the plumbing tube is flimsy and quickly the metal piece they give to hold it onto the faucet wore a hole in the plumbing piece rather quickly. We were easily able to buy parts that would fit at Home Depo.

As for the spin dryer, it does okay -- but I would suggest go ahead and run everything through the full spin cycle twice and it will hang dry that much faster.

It was a little funny when it arrived to the hotel room we were in at the time, as I can imagine the front desk was curious about such a big box. It was a lot bigger than I imagined it would be. My friends and family were a little amused to find out I was traveling from place to place with my own little laundry machine.

Overall if you need to save money, hate going to the laundry mat and don't mind buying lint rollers and keeping an eye on it (this while it washes so it doesn't flood the room) this is a pretty nice machine. I would recommend it to anyone not in a normal house environment like us traveling, or for dorm rooms etc.