Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Complete and utter waste of money, water, and electricity are my initial and long term thoughts on these things. Being fiscally motivated, my wife and I purchased two of these for our daughters. We live in a 100 year old house without central air and have spent many hundreds of dollars trying to cool our girls' bedrooms in the summer. Having seen the wonderfully produced and wholly misleading commercials for these landfill space takers, we decided that we had found a solution. WRONG! These little, much smaller than I thought, swamp coolers, simply do not perform as advertised. Even if we treated our daughters like Harry Potter and made them live in a closet under the stairs, these mold farms wouldn't have helped cool them. I know because we do have a closet beneath the stairs and after my repeatedly telling these teenagers that they weren't using them correctly, I tested them. On a hot day in August, I dutifully filled the reservoirs, grabbed a book, and sat down in the most private place in my house. I was absolutely convinced that within a few minutes of run time, these unpolished turds would have me cool and comfortable. WRONG! 15 minutes and I'm getting warmer. 30 minutes and I have to abandon my attempt to read my book as my sweaty is beginning to wet the pages. Now I am Marine veteran which of course means that I possess a certain level of hard-headedness. Even so, after an hour, I bailed out and had to admit the girls were correct. Stupid machines forced me to admit to two teenaged girls that I had been WRONG. Worse still was that they were...RIGHT. Save yourself time, money, and embarrassment by not buying these mini-allergen factories. Megan's husband