15L Portable Washing Machine, Upgraded Mini Washer and Spin Dryer with Deep Cleaning of Underwear, Baby Clothes and Small Clothes, Foldable Small Washer for Apartments, Dorm,RV, Travel, Hotel, Laundry

Works great. Perfect for giving me that machine washed feel for undies and other small articles. I say “giving me” because that’s what it’s really about. I want to feel like my unders were washed well enough, and I could swish and scrub them with my hands for a whole day and never be satisfied until they went through some kind of “official machine wash cycle”. Wash, spin, rinse, spin, repeat rinse/spin many times, spin well, I’m good. By hand I could never feel like I’m 100% finished washing them. I’d really prefer to only wear them once, but I can’t spend $18 on a pair of VS and treat them as disposables, and I can’t put an $18 eye patch size piece of satin in the big machine, especially with towels lurking in the laundry room awaiting the moment when they can jump into a load of delicates and declare victory by leaving little linty “pill balls” on every available snippet of ludicrously overpriced stretchy lacey edge trim.This little machine doesn’t have enough room for a towel to sneak into it. I win.(How do you like them apples, towels? Yeah I don’t care. But hey, towel, you best be all warm and fluffy new-like for my shower or Somebody’s gonna be a stack of disposable wash rags in the utility closet. I’m. Not. Sorry.)I have to have a firm hand with towels. They seem to ruin more clothes the more senile my mom gets. I suspect the towels pushed my Scottish hand-knit wool sweater into the dryer and shrunk it to the size of a 4 year old child. Too bad mom can’t remember seeing anything happen, ’cause I tell ya’, if she did, that rag bag’d be full.Oh, dear, I wandered off on a tangent of logical fallacy, again, didn’t I? My apologies.I digress:Make sure to get that drain hose up into the slot made for it at the back of the lid so the end is above the water level in the tub. It takes a bit of force. I was a bit worried I might break something, as I sometimes do. I came up with about 50 ways to accomplish the same end, from twist ties to rubber bands to a cable hold-down, bread or file clip, a hole drilled in the back of the lid to stuff the end through…anything to get the end of the drain hose above the water level in the wash tub.While the instructions really could be better, that part was clear. Honestly, it would have been plain common sense if I’d had no instructions at all.So, frankly, please read the instructions so you don’t write a review that proves you didn’t.If someone is thinking of getting this for a college student in a dorm, I say send it. They made it to college, they can lift the end of a drain hose to keep the water in.I sure wouldn’t want my undies in a (co-ed these days?) dorm laundry room, and college students may actually need to buy coffee with their laundry quarters to stay up and cram for an exam, so I say send it.