Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I really spent a lot of time contemplating this purchase. I am a minimalist traveler (three weeks in Asia in a book bag). I figured that being able to wash clothes would lighten my load by not needing to pack as many basics, and would more ban offset the added weight of this bag (which is negligible). There are pros and cons to this bag. Pros: - it is certainly easy to use. For the customers who have complained about the valve being to small to push a lot of air out of efficiently- I simply pushed out as much air as possible before I rolled it up. Then I used the valve to push out the last bit of air. - it serves very well as a laundry bag. I would put my dirties in the bag until I was ready to wash. - it is a compact way to have clean clothes without having to hunt down a laundry mat or spend time getting a less efficent result in a sink. - it takes up such little space, even for a minimalist like me. - it does a fair amount of laundry in a load. I would say I was able to get a weeks worth of underwear and socks, as well as a few shirts or other similar items in one load. Cons: - price was certainly a factor. While traveling in Asia I could get 10kilos of laundry done for a couple dollars, and did not have to wash or dry myself. In other countries where laundry is more expensive, or simply not available one would have to weigh the cost for themselves. - I felt that to get a true clean you would either need to do a kid twice, once to rinse the dirt and another to really clean. You could also pre-rinse in a sink. - time, I know it says that it you "agitate" for about three minutes. The reality is that you fill, squeeze out air, agitate, dump out used water, refill, reagitate, then spend a lot of time wringing out clothes for awhile to make them dry enough to air dry. For two loads it took me about 30 minutes of sitting on my shower floor going through the steps- so let's call it 15 minutes a load. I would certainly recommend this to other travelers, especially backpackers/campers.