Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This definitely cleans clothes and it works really well versus other options I've tested, but a few missteps make me think it doesn't deserve the 5 star rating everyone else is giving it. Also, before you purchase, I recommend looking at the manual online. It's posted to their website and gives a few more details that might help you decide if this device is right for you. Pros: * Worked great on exceedingly bad smelling clothes and sweaty workout clothes, just okay with a bath towel with a persistent mildew smell. * Lightweight, low difficulty, and good output. Durable construction. Cons: * Difficult to dry - Clothes are soaked with water no matter what you do (as other reviewers have pointed out) even as the documentation suggests you can press out the water under the basket once finished. The best I've been able to do is leave them in the bathroom on a drying rack with a high fan on them overnight. Even twist-drying them doesn't help. * You cannot remove the handle. In fact, there's a big warning at the beginning of the manual saying you could break the handle if you try. This is problematic both because it would be SO much easier to store the thing with the handle removed, but also because if you need to return the device, removing the handle is going to break it. I didn't see anything on this when I was researching this purchase. Note that there is actually a way to do this with a flathead screwdriver and some patience, but I wouldn't bother. * Soap - No suggestion on how much soap to use or how to run multiple cycles with one bucket of soapy water. I've tried to detail some suggestions below, but that seems like a big missing piece. Suggestions for use: * Bathtub: The bin holds a lot of water that might cause problems if knocked over, so doing this whole process in a bathtub might be ideal, especially in an apartment. * Soaking - If you have time, soak clothes for 4-8 hours (overnight). Note that earth-friendly soaps will start to smell bad after ~14 hours, since the whole point of earth-friendly soaps is that they break down once they get out to the sewers. Clothes get a lot cleaner this way and you break down a lot of stubborn smells / stains. You can use this in concert with half a cup of bleach, vinegar, or baking soda (see warning about bleach below). * Bleach: This is covered in the manual, but due to some splashing with this device, use caution with bleach, including eye protection and gentle cycling. I'd recommend normal bleach (sometimes listed as "color safe") and not chlorine bleach. * Soap use: I used the following to good effect: earth-friendly HE soap, 1/2 of the first "small load" marker. * Multi-cycle: The instructions only discuss a single cycle followed by a rinse, but you can save a LOT of water and soap by re-using the same soapy water multiple times to wash lots of clothes. After your first load, take out the wet+soapy clothes, set them aside in a bucket or bathtub, and add a little more water+soap each time to make sure that it covers the basket. I've done this a dozen times with no issue, and on two occasions reusing the soapy water 3x. * Bucket: I'd recommend having a spare one on hand for adding water, holding clothes inbetween cycles, etc. It's just very helpful * Draining: You can lift the bucket out of the water and rotate it a little so that it sits above the water to ease the process of draining. After that, you can empty clothes into the bottom of the bucket and press down with the empty basket to help get more water out. If you already have a method to wring clothes, you might skip this step. * Do what the instructions say x2 - Out of an abundance of caution, I double the recommended lift-push and cycles just because I don't want to mess about with the slow process of drying still-dirty / smelly clothes. Issues * Floating basket: if the basket rises to the top of the water, take off the lid and press down on all the clothes to get all the air out. Or put a bucket on top and add something heavy to create a counterweight. * Persistent mildew smell: For clothes with a mildew smell, you might want to soak longer and go through more lift-and-drop cycles. I also like adding baking soda (add to a full container of water before any clothes). I did roughly 20 minutes and 20 lift-and-push down cycles and that was effective.