This is great!!!! I live for 4 years in a 1 bedroom apartment with not washer nor dryer, so I did got this portable one. This is really food alternative/option if you don't have washer and dryer. Easy to use, not heavy at all. I hooked this up in my bathroom. I placed it inside my bath tub. The spinning area it is impressive it soaks all the water out of the clothes at the point that it is almost dry when you take it out. What I did was washed the clothes I didn't over load the machine just little bit a a time the once it came out of the spinning area I will hang it to dry. I did sheets, towels, work uniform, pillow cases, jeans, blouses, dresses, my sofa cover. No problem at all. All came out cleaned and smells fresh. It saves me money on going to the laundromat. My electricity bill didn't increase at all. Never noticed the difference in the bill. I washed once a week.

This little machine works very well! + and - below +FAST! You set the timer for wash and spin cycles. I used different time sets, and things turned out good whether wash was 5 minutes or more than 10. Spinner didn't need more than 3 minutes for most things. +THOROUGH! I don't know if my things were ever really clean before because the water always showed either dirt or dye in it for used clothes that I haven't worn to hike lately. The spinner leaves items slightly damp after a few minutes which is pretty amazing since I've used dryers before that left clothes damp after an hour's cycle with heat. +VERSATILE! It has handles on the sides to lift and carry it for use and storage. It looks like a child's play set. +QUIET! It is quieter than regular machines to my ears. -Small and not automatic. You're the cycle changer! It is not set and forget. You select when it drains, how long it runs, and move everything to the spinner. No doing other things while laundry gets done cycling. It is fast, but you're the cycle changer!I have done a couple of towels with a couple shirts and socks in one load that worked fine to give an idea of machine capacity. I never filled it as full as it looked like it could go, so it is possible more could be done in a load. The manufacturer describes load capacity by weight but I have no idea what things weigh so pretty much just try it and see what it can handle!! You add the water then turn off the water source. When the machine stops agitating due to the wash time being reached, you turn on the drain function. When it is done draining, you turn off the drain function. There is no alert or auto stop for that, only your eyes. If it stays on drain with nothing to drain, it can mess up the motor. The rinse cycle is the same thing just don't add soap! The spinner has a hose attachment for water input. I haven't yet used it because the instructions didn't describe that and it can't hold as much weight so I haven't used that inlet to see if there is a benefit to that vs. a 2nd rinse cycle in the main tub. -Hoses and cord are short. It would be good to get extensions for the hoses and an extension cord for the power cord and/or a good stand for the machine so those things can reach sinks and faucets more easily. There is a holder that keeps the drain hose in place if you use a bucket or can reach your sink with the drain hose. I did not have those things so used the setup in my pictures. -The spinner capacity is about half of the washer capacity. It is so fast that this doesn't matter too much, but you are reaching into one tub to put things in it twice for every load washed. -Wrinkles. It isn't as bad as you'd think, but there is no fluff or nice dryer sheet scent added in. Shaping it when damp and ironing when dry is needed for fewer wrinkles if you don't have a dryer to finish the process. Some things are nearly dry when they are done from the spinner so wrinkles are likely. OVERALL: I'M IMPRESSED! I didn't realize they had washers w/out hookups that weren't something I'd need to spin manually or pump until I started seeing videos of RV people talking about their rigs and low power machines. The spinner is impressive to me. The clothes go from sopping wet to almost dry in a couple of minutes. I am glad my clothes seem cleaner now than ever before. It makes me feel bad for all the power used to have them less clean before from standard machines! I might still get a dryer because I do like throwing things in the dryer to dewrinkle and how they smell from dryer sheets fluffing them up. I have never really used fabric softener on purpose so don't know how that might work in these machines. It might add that scent. I'll probably get hose and claim extensions or a stand to add versatility since it was not easy to have to have things backwards with what worked in my space. The machine itself, though, is great! You might not need anything else to set it up more conveniently. It's cute, too.

I have trialed and errored this thing for 9 months so you wont have to! If you are on the fence about getting one of these washers I suggest you look them up on tiktok - you will find alot of brands and reviews. I ultimately chose this one because of its larger size AND because it has a drain pump to help push the water out (some of them only drain by gravity) First I'll start with the tricks I've learned that make this thing much easier to use SHOWER HEAD - the little hose it comes with is okay, but it takes around 10 minutes to fill up that way and getting it to stay on the sink without falling off or leaking is a pain. Getting a deatchable shower heard cut fill time to about 4 minutes. DRAIN HOSE - FIRST - its probably better to drain it in the toilet due to the amount of lint that drains out with the dirty water. If not, make sure you have a hair catcher or something over your drain so you can stop the excess lint going down the tub drain. I clogged my drain a couple times before I learned this less. i ALSO didnt realize until about a month ago that you can turn the washer over and move the drain hose from the right to the left side depending on where you want to drain it. So for a while I was moving it back and forth to fill it and drain it, but now I've got that figured out. EXTENSION CORD - the cord on this is pretty short so an extension cord will probably be neccesary. SHOWER ROD and BOX FAX - get a second shower rod and hang your clothes there, set up a box fan to speed up drying. If you get a drying rack, use it for small things or you will run out of room fast. Now the actual review - I freaking love this little washer. You do have to kind of "babysit" it - meaning you have to manually fit it up, run it for 15 minutes, drain it, manually fill it up and run it again to rinse the clothes, drain it, then manually spin it. But it beats always going to the laundry mat. The larger size is ideal for me because I can do about a half of a full basket of laundry at the time - i just cant spin it all at once so I usually spin half (1 to 3 times depending how much water the items are holding on it) then while im spinning the second half of the load I start refilling it with water to start the next load. You dont need to use very much laundry soap at all! I am guilty of using too much in normal machines but you need very little for this washer. Same with softener (add that to the rinse cycle). Its a little heavy because of its bigger size so its kind of a pain to move it back into the closet when im done, but if you have a larger bathroom you might not even need to move it. ADHDers beware - dont walk away from this thing while youre filling it up UNLESS you have the drain hose set up where it will drain to already. I overfilled this twice and slightly flooded my bathroom because I walked away from it without setting a timer. The good news is that when it overflows its draining from the hose, so if you set up the hose where its in the tub or toilet already, it wont overflow onto the floor. When im done with it, I hoist it up on the side of the bathtub so that the drain hose is completely below it and drain the last bit of water into the bathtub. The pump is strong but theres always a little water left at the bottom so this step is neccesary to make sure theres no water in the bottom when you put it away. I generally dont wash blankets or bedding in it (aside from pillow cases) mostly because I dont have the space to hang them to dry really. But I have seen reviews on tiktok of people who do so it might be possible! it also just depends on if the blanket would fit into the spin side when its fully wet. Ill end my review by saying this - while the washer is AMAZING - sometimes it will be easier to still go to the laundry mat if you have alot of laundry to do. It takes about 1-1.5 hours for me to do a load (with distractions and multitasking of course) so if I have a weeks worth of clothes for two people to wash, it may be an all day activity to get it done in the little washer. But I will still be using this thing the majority of the time.