Beware......

carolinebrown

Okay okay... I know they're pretty much harmless and scared more of us than them and would agree fear of spiders is somewhat irrational..... but I'M FLIPPING TERRIFIED AND CAN'T HELP IT!!!!!

Lirin

Sealant around any holes in the floors/ walls where cables are tracked- that sorted out more than a few.

Inadvertantly teaching the Lab 'Spiderkiller' worked best- she deposits their little chewed bodies in my hand in return for a treat.

Teaching the little one to name them before she squashes them so they get to Spider Heaven (yes, I know, there's a flawed logic there) ensured I don't have the screamy hysterical thing going on.....

And yes, lemongrass works! For a while.

What you have to be careful of- there isn't one hiding and watching while you kill it's mate- it'll return hours later with a vengeful spider army!

martin57

I do suffer from phobias and know whats it like to do so, but I will never kill a spider (I'll kill flies wasps etc but not spiders) I just pick them up by a tissue and put them outside, I just got this thing that its unlcuky to kill a spider!!

Olokia

I used to catch them and throw them outside but since getting my cat I have found a better way.

Stand there and call my cat's name. She comes over to see why I am calling her. I point out the spider to her and then I look away as she eats it.

She has even started searching all the corners looking for her tasty snack.

Only spiders though, she just watches the ants on the couple of days a year we get them.

chewynut

I've gotten better with spiders since we got the dogs but there's always one that perches on the ceiling and I can't lift the dogs up that high

I usually just scream blue murder until somebody else comes to my rescue. If they get it onto the floor, it's SHOW TIME for the dogs

2sides2everystory

martin57 wrote: »

I do suffer from phobias and know whats it like to do so, but I will never kill a spider (I'll kill flies wasps etc but not spiders) I just pick them up by a tissue and put them outside, I just got this thing that its unlcuky to kill a spider!!

I must admit that this is also something I as a countryboy took for granted. Spiders, in the UK at least, only ever do good - well that's what I have always told myself (and others ).

As I get older, and am more aware of other cultures and religions, I do feel some guilt at even killing ants, flies and wasps - but I haven't lately stopped myself when they refuse to exit the building.

Spiders however remain the exception and I will always carefully trap them using a large glass and a stiff piece of paper.

delain

I get someone else to deal with them... I go ino meltdown when I see one!

fadetogrey

Its that time of the year.....

They are fast, furious and sneaky...

They can appear from nowhere and able to hide anywhere...

Not only that but they are ugly & horrible!

I thought you meant jehovas witnesses.:p:p

Transformer

I had shower couple of nights ago with a very large daddy longlegs watching I found out, eeeekkkkk, but have to say I dont kill them now, due to a few years back having a midge problem due to neighbours leaving their sewer drains open, for some unknown reason. Got over my initial fear of spidies when realised the midges were being gobbled by them.

So daddylonglegs was spared due to neighbour up to their old tricks, son said they leave it open as shovel the dog mess from the patio which honks, every few days direct into the sewer, but cant be bothered to lift and replace the lid, so leave it open !!!!!!!! Dirty bleepers eh!!!!!

So we let em get big and fat and then pop them out to the garden, well to be honest, son does as I look from the position of stood on a chair, haha
ps. Sypathies to anyone struggling with spidey fear, it is a hard fear to overcome.

jakes-mum

i do try to be good and trap them in a glass and chuck them outside, unfortunately when my youngest was a toddler she was sat on the floor and one with massive legs ran from under my chair straight toward the gap at the bottom of her trouser leg. I lost my head, screamed, grabbed the big book next to me and launched it at the thing then spent a few moments stamping on top of the book. Needless to say my daughter gave me a very bemused look and then spent the next week randomly putting books on the floor, stamping on them to cries of 'die spider' (which i assume i must have said)

I havent done it since as i was so ashamed and she forgot it. I still feel bad as I could have passed on my own phobia to her quite early :eek: