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bestpud

wilf55 wrote: »

it wont dry and drop off.........i have 1 tile in my kitchen that i havent cleaned since last summer 08 cos there is a squashed spider on it !!!!

it hasnt dried and dropped off it is still there from this time last year:mad:

Can't you vacuum it?

If you pull the nozzle right out, you can stand a good way back...

That's what I'd do anyway.

In fact, I'd have had to get rid of it, even if it mean pulling someone in off the street!

space_rider

When I had an OH, I was petrified of spiders but he would grudgingly get rid of them. We then split up and I had to deal with them myself. I can with alot of screaming get rid of them as long as they fit in my dyson and I can now deal with emptying the dust thing in the outside bin. What I have a real fear of is slugs. One day there was a massive one on the path going up to the house and I stayed in the car until it had disappeared. My 9 year old let herself in and thought it was very funny. When I look for a house to buy I have to assess the chance of having slugs on the path and could not bear to have a long path to walk down. This one I can just about manage to hop over them but not if they are too close to the front door.

My kids don`t like spiders either my 9 year old was ok with little ones and would kill them for her sisters but now she is worse than I was. The other day she was desparate for a number 2 but because there was a spider in her bathroom she wouldn`t use it. I refused to let her use mine as I was brushing teeth and I took her and sat her down on the loo. She won`t use the downstairs toilet as that sometimes has spiders in though always tiny ones. My bathroom sometimes has massive one and it`s a 3 year old 3 storey house.

delain

wilf55 wrote: »

it wont dry and drop off.........i have 1 tile in my kitchen that i havent cleaned since last summer 08 cos there is a squashed spider on it !!!!

it hasnt dried and dropped off it is still there from this time last year:mad:

i said to him on the phone yesterday that he could have got rid of it before going away, and he said 'you can call him maurice, something to remind you of me till i get back' _pale_

so now he even has a name

wilf55

tried vacuuming it but it got bashed so hard in case it did a runner i think its welded onto the wall

wilf55

delain wrote: »

i said to him on the phone yesterday that he could have got rid of it before going away, and he said 'you can call him maurice, something to remind you of me till i get back' _pale_

so now he even has a name

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Dual

delain wrote: »

i said to him on the phone yesterday that he could have got rid of it before going away, and he said 'you can call him maurice, something to remind you of me till i get back' _pale_

so now he even has a name

Toooooo funny!

You'll be giving him his own room next :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

So you say 'morning, Maurice' every breakfast time. Before you know it, he'll be part of the fixtures and fittings. If being welded to the tiles isn't fixtured enough already

poet123

I like spiders!!!I think they are very clever, and their webs are really beautiful especially when the raindrops catch on them.......I love to liberate them,and can happily pick them up and free them outside.

pinkandwhites

So glad I found this thread - I also have a fear of spiders that I know is totally irrational but that still doesn't stop me from feeling like I'm going to have a heart attack when I see one of those big, fast moving devils.

My daughter did that therapy at London Zoo as part of her Psychology A Level and ended up holding a tarantula at the end of the day, and I thought hooray she can deal with all our spiders from now on, but it doesn't seem to have helped at all and she's still terrified of the ones we get in the house and gets scared/ shakey/ screamy just like me.

I have bought a spray from ebay called Protector which is meant to deter spiders from coming in, so I have sprayed all around the doors and windows, and in the corners of rooms and along the skirting boards. It wasn't cheap - about £11 a can - but worth every penny if it works. I will let you know.

I hate this time of year - I find myself standing in the doorway of each room, checking walls, ceilings and floors for spiders before I can go in. I am definately going to try that tip from another poster of finding my level of tolerance, and gradually trying to increase it bit by bit. Its a mind over matter thing - if I could only get to the stage of not minding them being in my house (even the big ones) then I wouldn't have to deal with the trauma of trying to get them outside/going near them etc.

I just can't do the glass/card thing, as I can't get anywhere near enough to do that. Usually its a long handled fluffy duster for the small ones (up to fingernail size) or the spindly "daddy long legs type" ones, then I chuck the whole duster out the window/door and retrieve it later! For anything bigger, its the "scream, shake and run out the room method", hoping my screams will have scared it so much that it will scarper out the nearest available exit. Well, if they really are more scared of us, then we are of them .......

Good luck everyone with coping with your fears ....

Dual

See..... i dont understand this face your fears course where you end up holding a tarantula - the problem for me is when the hell are you ever going to have to deal with a bloody tarantula scurrying up your wall or across your floor?

Its the ones we deal with here in England, the brown fast moving barstewards with the fat body that just give you the eebie jeebies...thats what im talking about.

I'd rather face my fears trying to hold one of them - I actually think I could hold a tarantula at an organised class - but I doubt id find one in my house anytime soon.

Id like to hear from anyone who went to one of these classes - held a tarantula and then came home and could happily hold one of them house spider !!!!!!s!