BIG spiders!! No piccies!

coffeeholic_2

I can identify with sooo many posters on this thread. Spiders freak me out big time as well as daddy long legs and moths (the huge hairy ones not the tiny ones I can handle them). I have never heard of spraying deodorant or hairspray to stop them moving, I will remember those

Last spider we had it was 1 of those tiny body and huge legs ones, I was brushing my hair in the bedroom and happened to glance up at the ceiling and froze, dropped my brush, shut the bedroom door and waited for OH to come home and deal with it!! If its a massive one, he will hoover it up but he hates killing them so will usually trap them in a glass and put them outside. After hearing that they can climb out of the hoover after u suck them up I won't sleep tonight :eek: :eek: :eek: I might have to do that sandwich bag and elastic band over the hoover nozzle thing!!

OMG if I lived on my own and found a spider, I have no idea what I'd do as soon as I see one, I get sweaty palms and my heart starts going ten to the dozen. As for someone shoving a spider down your top, I'm getting chills just thinking about that, that is just cruel. I don't even like the word sp*der.

Keep all those tips coming, am loving them.

Pinkylouloubell

Hi there,

Havent read through the whole thread, so apologies if someone has already suggested this.

My OH left me about 2 months ago now and the first thing I did was go out and buy myself a s***** catcha, cant even say the word!!

Its a long handled this with like a fibre at the end and catches spiders without harming them and keeps them there till you run to the window to drop them out.

Bought it online for £7.99 and ita the best thing I ever bought.
If you google spider cathcer and click on images youl see what i mean.
Seriously its brill!!


Good luck
x

gairlochgal

Haven't read it all so sorry if I'm covering old ground but I wondered if you are really stressed. Cos I have a friend who went through 3 years of horrendous stress and her spider phobia reached the point where she couldn't get to her bedroom if she thought there was one in the hall. She would sleep on the couch rather than deal with the spider. And now stress resolved and she's back to a point where she can use a humane spider catcher.

I am the opposite and love spiders. I recall when I was in the 6th form at my all girls school and there was nowhere to sit in the common room and I spotted a spider and showed it to a few...... scary levels of screaming and lots of empty seats Don't get me started on mice however.

bestpud

consultant31 wrote: »

I can't understand the people who advocate putting them outside - do you not think they'll come back in again? In our house, I whack them with one of hubby's size 12s - they don't tend to walk away afterwards.

Now that is exactly what I think! Glad I'm not the only one!

gairlochgal wrote: »

Haven't read it all so sorry if I'm covering old ground but I wondered if you are really stressed. Cos I have a friend who went through 3 years of horrendous stress and her spider phobia reached the point where she couldn't get to her bedroom if she thought there was one in the hall. She would sleep on the couch rather than deal with the spider. And now stress resolved and she's back to a point where she can use a humane spider catcher.

I am the opposite and love spiders. I recall when I was in the 6th form at my all girls school and there was nowhere to sit in the common room and I spotted a spider and showed it to a few...... scary levels of screaming and lots of empty seats Don't get me started on mice however.

Yes, I have anxiety problems anyway and phobias are common in people with the problems I have (had).

I will actually see non-existant spiders everywhere when I am very anxious/stressed! I know they aren't real at the time, but still get as scared as if they were iyswim?

Sorry, but I think you are mad!! I cannot for the life of me understand anyone liking them!

Well, this thread has made me feel better, as well as giving good tips!

I hate to think of others suffering too, but at the same time, it makes me feel better that I'm not alone...

For those who mentioned it, I have no intention of ever stepping foot in New Zealand or Australia! _pale_ Snakes there too! _pale_

MadDogWoman_2

I do not like spiders in any size.

I have to stay calm and walk away quickly now though as I don't want my DD to be the same - I can't even look at the spiders behind glass in the zoo! It makes my skin crawl.

If there's a spider I wait for DH to come home from work, he does the glass and card thing.

We have blown vinyl stuff on our bedroom ceiling and I can hear the spiders walking across it! So I don't get any sleep until DH wakes up and moves it.

I have 3 cats and a dog so don't get that many but I'm still definitely going to try the conker tip this year.

MDW

jinky67

I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!

I read this thread yesterday, and thought " I am not the only one"

This morning I wake up to a HUGE HUGE tarantula in my living room!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was forced to hoover it up, I hate doing it incase they run up the handle near me:cool:


*cries*

bestpud

jinky67 wrote: »

I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!

I read this thread yesterday, and thought " I am not the only one"

This morning I wake up to a HUGE HUGE tarantula in my living room!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was forced to hoover it up, I hate doing it incase they run up the handle near me:cool:


*cries*

Yeah, but I've now discovered they can come back out!

I've got a plastic bag over the nozzle now, secured with an elastic band!

I actually brought the hoover in here with me this morning as it is the worst room for them and I want to be prepared!


Ok, people laugh at me for this in RL (they think I am winding them up), but can anyone else hear their footsteps when it is a massive one? Not as in thud, thud, thud, but scurrying?

Go easy on me!

jinky67

bestpud wrote: »

Yeah, but I've now discovered they can come back out!

I've got a plastic bag over the nozzle now, secured with an elastic band!

I actually brought the hoover in here with me this morning as it is the worst room for them and I want to be prepared!


Ok, people laugh at me for this in RL (they think I am winding them up), but can anyone else hear their footsteps when it is a massive one? Not as in thud, thud, thud, but scurrying?

Go easy on me!

I know I read that yesterday:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Oh dont you worry, I hear them scurry sometimes too:o
A bit like Daddy's on the wall, that when I know they are around:eek::eek::eek:

I am too scared to go near the hoover to put anything near the end of it:o

jellyhead

daisychain80 wrote: »

...........I swear it was that big it could have worn trainers!!!!

Also I always take a drink of water to bed with me and one warm night a few weeks ago I was up about 4am, went to get a drink of my water and there was a shadow in it........yep it was another beast what had crawled in there and I was so close to drinking it too, yak!!

We'd get ones that could have worn boots in my parents house. I only live 2 streets away now but only get half as many spiders, and not the enormous ones. Parents have trees though, and their garden backs onto a field.

Your water story made me shudder. I took my inhaler once, when sleeping over in a strange house and they hadn't left me a light on, and couldn't remember my way to the bathroom. there was a crawly in it, so it shot into my mouth and wiggled about. I spt it into the sink and it was an earwig, but I'd thought it was a spider and was so scared I had a proper asthma attack afterwards, from the shock :eek: I always leave the cap on my inhaler now :rotfl:

consultant31

jellyhead wrote: »

Your water story made me shudder. I took my inhaler once, when sleeping over in a strange house and they hadn't left me a light on, and couldn't remember my way to the bathroom. there was a crawly in it, so it shot into my mouth and wiggled about. I spt it into the sink and it was an earwig, but I'd thought it was a spider and was so scared I had a proper asthma attack afterwards, from the shock :eek: I always leave the cap on my inhaler now :rotfl:

Gonna have to stop reading this thread, it's making me a nervous wreck! There are 3 'creatures' that make me run and hide and they've all been mentioned on here.......large spiders, earwigs and those biiiig fat moths.

When I was a child someone told me those big moths are the souls of dead people :eek: Being told that as a kid can traumatise you for years, honestly. I may be old enough to know it's rubbish, but it still horrifies me (and have you noticed that they do kind of turn to dust when you squash them, lol)