We have 4 kids who love to play in the puddles, snow, and mud. We were constantly trying to dry out gloves and boots with no luck. We tried the dryer, we tried fans, we tried setting them over the heat vent, we tried all of that together even, and still had wet gloves and had to take liners out of boots. I swore if I had to try to put one more boot liner in a little boot I would loose it, enter this boot dryer! The gloves that took two cycles in the dryer and had to sit over the heat vent with a fan pointed at them and were still wet in the morning, were dry within an hour on this dryer! Now my kids set their stuff on it and turn it on, I don't have to do anything but switch gloves before bed. Its amazing!