Product review (4 stars): Better than the laundromat, but still a job!
This is a good little machine for the price. Having said that it is much more labor intensive than using a conventional washer and dryer. I definitely don't look forward to doing laundry, however I have to admit that it is satisfying to have clean clothes without having to pay an arm and a leg at the laundromat! Plus, even though it takes more time and effort than if I had my own washer and dryer, it takes less time than if I had to pack up my clothes and drive to the laundromat. So I just grin and bear it.

Insofar as how it cleans...well I was surprised that it cleans my clothes very well. I work in a factory, and while I didn't think that my clothes were that dirty, the wash water always turns dirty and brown, lol. So it's really getting the dirt out, I believe even more than if I had used an HE washer, that didn't use much water. It does, unfortunately tangle and twist my clothes together, however. When you're taking them out you have to untwist them from each other before you can dry them, but it hasn't seemed to cause any damage.

It's also difficult to fill. I tried the completely ineffectual hose, but as I'm in an apartment I don't want to modify the faucet or anything, so I just use a bucket and consider that I'm getting a workout while I'm washing clothes, lol.  I personally fill the wash tub to wash them, drain that, and fill it with fresh water to rinse. It works well for me. I think that other people rinse them in the spin dryer part, but without a hose I'm not sure how I'd do that.

The spin dryer has good and bad points as well. Yes, it does spin rapidly, and does a decent job with getting the water out. I've never used it beyond two minutes, and usually I just use one, because very little water comes out after the first minute, and, because I'm in a third floor apartment and I don't want the vibrations to bother the downstairs neighbors, I balance it on the side of the tub and hold the washer while It's spinning. The spin dryer doesn't hold much either, and you will have to dry your clothes in bunches rather than the whole thing.

The dryer does have a huge flaw: small items are pulled out through centrifuge and sucked out onto the outside of the spin dryer basket. This wouldn't be so bad, but I had an issue where my dryer was absolutely not draining and I couldn't figure it out...lo and behold I finally saw two washcloths down there, blocking the drain. It was a pain to get them out, and I finally resorted to turning the whole washer/dryer apparatus upside down in the tub. I'm being more careful now, and trying to put small items on the bottom, but it could still happen. It does come with a plastic disc that you put on top of the clothes in the dryer basket, presumably to prevent this from happening, but it still did.

So it's not caviar, it's more like a plain tuna sandwich that is better than nothing. I would buy it again to avoid the laundromat, if that means anything. (I have to admit though that I only use this for clothes, not sheets and towels as I don't know where I'd dry them, so I do utilize my apartment's laundry or a laundromat some, but not nearly as much.) It does what it says though: washes your clothes very clean, and dries them to a little more than damp. Best wishes for your own washing!