This is (OK, besides maybe my tv) my favorite possession! Don't even laugh, I don't have a W/D and it is amazing. Easy to use, works in 5 min - I wish I had gotten one ages ago. The cat also thinks it's a great time watching the water come out. It does not come with a drain bucket to catch it, and it works really well so prepare to catch a LOT (1-2L from a blanket) of water!

And laundry is hung dry by waking up in the morning. Some things in an hour. It's so great not going to the laundromat and I save so much money.

And now with winter and no porch time for clothes drying, and no desire to schlep laundry in the snow, I love it even more.

THANK YOU.

(Initial review on unpacking day -- will update after a week or two of use.)

The dryer was lighter than expected (but not so light as to feel cheap). Build quality is good; packaging is tight fitting to protect it during shipping. Note: you must find and remove the shipping immobilizer under the base -- this is BOTH the metal angle iron and the heavy-duty plastic zip-tie holding it in place. The zip-tie is tricky to get out, even after cutting it open with scissors. If either is not removed, the spinning mechanism can be damaged. There is an X-shaped styrofoam spacer filling up the clothes chamber inside at the top to stabilize it during shipping -- remove it, but be prepared to vacuum out zillions of annoying styrofoam bits afterwards. Finally, DON'T FORGET to set up a bowl or small bucket under the water drain spout at the bottom front!

Use was simple and much faster than I expected -- just put in wet clothes no higher than the top of the inner chamber, slide in the flexible pink safety cover on top of the clothes but under the inner chamber rim, plug in the dryer, and close the hatch, which locks and activates the spinning. Warning: I suggest leaning with some weight on the lid/dryer when you start it up, because if it is unbalanced, it will buck all over the place. With experience in loading my clothes, I have reduced the number of bucking incidents and hope to pretty much eliminate them. Assuming no bucking, the dryer quickly spins up to very high speed and water starts gushing out the drain spout in front. (This is when you will remember to put a dish/bucket in front if you haven't already! :) ) Once the water slows to individual drips, you are done. This usually happened within a minute or two for my loads of heavy-duty cotton T-shirts & cotton underwear. The clothes came out surprisingly dry, definitely dryer than from my traditional full-size top-loading washer.

Why I didn't give it 5 stars (for now):
1) I will upload photos of the machine and manual; the manual says the warranty is only 1 year, while the listing says 3 years. I have a request into Amazon to find out what's going on here. Even if it's only a 1 year warranty, SquareTrade sells an appliance 3-year warranty here on Amazon for about 10% of the price of the dryer.
2) Small capacity. Initially, it seems to fit only about 4 heavy-duty thick men's cotton T-shirts at a time; I suspect I will be able to add some socks and underwear at the same time as my loading skills improve.
3) Sensitivity to uneven loading. I may change my mind on this as I improve my loading skills with practice. It seems likely the best way to load it is to put the heaviest/largest items in first, and to extend each item in a circle shape around the center as much as possible, forming a donut-shaped pile of clothes at the bottom.

That said, I really like this machine:
-) It's easy to move around and compact. I keep it next to my small table in the bathroom, then move it next to the sink and outlet when I want to use it.
-) It's very quiet -- quieter than my bathroom exhaust fan (unless it starts bucking!).
-) It's ridiculously fast -- a few minutes and it's spun out all the water it can, leaving the clothes surprisingly dry.
-) It's easy to use, without any parts that look like they will break easily.

I bought this and Laundry Alternative's Wonder Wash for use in my RV. Along with a portable clothesline, they make a great and space-saving alternative to going to a laundromat. But this way of doing laundry does require all three pieces. (Add a fan if drying completely indoors.)

Just be aware that any spin dryer, including this one, will not actually "dry" your clothes. Instead, it takes out so much moisture that line-drying them has a chance of succeeding, even on not-so-warm days. But thick or heavy items, like jeans and some towels, will still take a day to completely dry indoors unless you get some moving air around them.

With the spin dryer, you can actually suck so much water out of some garments, like tee-shirts, that you will set wrinkles in them that will not come out while they're line-drying. So now I put things I don't want to wrinkle on the top, so I can take them out before I finish spinning everything else.

LOVE the new Nina Soft Spin Dryer & Wonder Wash combo!

We live in a fifth wheel and have an on-board washer and dryer. Sometimes it takes the tumble dryer up to 4 HOURS to dry two bath towels even though they'd been through the spin cycle in the washer. Since we don't always have full hook-ups and some park laundry facilities are up to $3.25 to wash and dry a load, I'm now using Laundry Alternative's Wonder Wash and the Nina Soft Spin Dryer. The Nina Soft pulled nearly 3 quarts of water out of EACH of two towels, after which the tumble dryer finished drying both in 40 minutes. Woohoo!

Other remarkable drying times: Nina Soft followed by the tumble dryer = Queen sheets dry in 20 minutes; 4 pair of jeans shorts, 20 minutes. Nina Soft + line dry on a hot day = 20-30 minutes total drying time for T-Shirts /Shorts. Pretty amazing.

The spin dryer's earned a permanent place in my RV kitchen because I use it almost every day. I'll still be using it even when I have full hook-ups and can return to using my regular washer.

I dealt directly with Laundry Alternative and they were great to work with... answered many questions by phone and email before and after receiving my products. My only regret is that I didn't order them a year ago. I could have saved so much time drying my clothes, and money at park laundry rooms.

RVrs: The Laundry Alternative people told me it's BEST THAT NINA SOFT TRAVELS UPRIGHT v. stowed on its side.

BOONDOCKERS, I asked the Laundry Alternative people how much water would the Wonder Wash be putting into the grey tank for washing and rinsing? Here is their reply:

"It takes a little over a gallon of water to wash the clothes. Rinsing depends on the method used. If you refill the machine to rinse, you can use up to 3 gallons of water" [total, wash + rinse water]. "You can also rinse by hand, and perhaps use less water. The best way to use the least amount of water is to use a spin dryer...it's not commonly known, but a fast spin cycle removes a great deal of detergent suds...most people assume you must use water to rinse, but fast spin speed also does a great job of rinsing."

For what it's worth, I'm making my own low suds powdered detergent from recipes found on youtube, and I'm getting great results with only 1/2 - 1 TEASPOON of powder per load in the Wonder Wash. Makes rinsing easy and the water extracted via the spin dryer is coming out nearly clear. If you have to be super conservative with water while boondocking or managing your grey tank level, it is easy to recapture the rinse water from the Wonder Wash and the Nina Soft and re-use it to wash the next load.

The photo compares the Nina Spin Soft to my counter height and a one-step folding stool. Hopefully it will give you a good visual comparison for size. Believe me it's worth the space. And the price for the Laundry Alternative combo.

BTW, my husband was fussing that these were just "gadgets" before I made the purchase. After watching me keep the laundry clean this last month and my neighbor schlepping off to the laundromat with 3 weeks dirty laundry, I got a welcome, "Good decision, Babe." Can't beat that. Unless he did the laundry. LOL

UPDATE 10/20/15: STILL LOVE THE WONDER WASH/NINA SOFT SPIN DRYER COMBO

Have only had full hook-ups about 2 weeks out of the last 4 months, but the laundry situation isn't a hassle any more. The combo works - clean clothes in less time. Was able to use my regular washer this week, but only used it for 3 big loads. Found I prefer the Wonder Wash for small loads of like things, plus the quick turn-around time of just a few minutes to wash and rinse a load. Used the spin dryer after each of the regular washer loads, too, and it was remarkable how much soapy water was extracted. Thanks, Laundry Alternative, for great products.

Most amazing thing ever! I have no idea how I didn't know about this product sooner.

I live in a NYC apartment with my husband and 2 kids. We accumulate a lot of laundry!!!! Not only is it terribly expensive, it takes up so much time!

I recently found about about a small device to wash clothes in a bucket in minutes. Right after I ordered that, I found this. First I didn't think I needed it, but if you've ever rung out 4 peoples worth of laundry by hand, you'd see that you do. I thought my hands were going to fall off.

My mother in law bought this for me for my birthday and I did 4 small loads of laundry that day!!! I've been doing 1 small load a night and with this spinner, it's dry by morning. It has probably saved my sanity.