Beware......

fluffnutter

Aww, cute! A fella who's scared of spiders!

Seriously, arcon, if they really trouble you to the point it impacts on your day-to-day existence, i.e. you actually come to fear a particular time of year(!), have you thought about talking to your GP about phobia therapies?

RadoJo

I can't imagine living in fear of something which is so common (particularly in our old house!), so I would second the idea of having some kind of treatment - you don't have to fall in love with the things, but being able to deal with them without panicking sounds like it will make a difference to your life.

Polka_dot_zebra

Conkers. Put them in the corners of rooms you tend to get spiders in, and you'll notice a huge reduction in the amount you get. I think it's the pheromones they give off - the spiders don't like it. Sounds daft, but it works

bigpound

You must be an idiot to kill spiders, would you prefer the odd spider, or be up to your neck in flies? Just throw them outside using card & cup, not difficult.

My bro is a spider and thinks it's stupid too.

shjo558

I don't like to kill anything, well apart from wasps but they don't count:eek:!

If you really, really cant catch it and deposit it out the window then either get the hoover out or get a cat!

MackemPunk

Caught this !!!!!! yesterday( since released)



But thats nothing compared to the one last year

thespiderspeed

arcon5 wrote: »

Your very welcome -- did you sleep okay

UPDATE:
Well my partner arrived home and squashed it with a towel. Its dead body now crumpled on the floor still

(hope there isn't any spiders rights activists out there )

Quite surprisingly I did.

My phobia was quite bad as a child, I would scream bloody murder if I found one. I found one on my bedroom ceiling once as I was going to bed, which promptly fell when my parents tried to get it. And when they told me it was gone, I climbed into my top-bunk bed and found it in there instead. :eek:
I have never moved so fast, ended up jumping over the bed and was standing on top on my chest of drawers screaming like a banshee and wouldn't calm down, so my mam slapped me across the face to shut me up. I think she felt a bit guilty when she realised it was in my bed. :rotfl:
I have gotten better as an adult and get rid of them myself as long as I don't have to touch them. I will rinse them down the plug-hole or get the hoover to suck them up. But I still hate pictures of them.

Pleased your partner sorted it out for you.

eilidh_s

I don't mind spiders although one this morning gave me the fright of my life. It was hanging around my bathroom sink so I gave it a wee poke to move it out of the way in case I drowned it, but the second I touched it, it jumped and I swear it hit the ceiling! It landed on the floor and was all curled up so I thought the impact had killed it but when I tried to pick it up to bin it, it jumped again and I haven't seen it since.

I then went back into my bedroom and found a weird hairy moth semi-expired on the floor next to my bed. Now these things really freak me out, I thought it was dead but it gave a bit of a flutter as I tried to scoop it up with a bit of cardboard. I screamed like a crazy person and then calmed down, re-scooped it and threw it straight out the window!

antrobus

There was a bloomin ginormous spider on our kitchen wall the other day. Wife captured spider with the aid of an empty glass jar and released it back into the wild. Two days later the damn thing was back again.

She operates a Two Strikes Law.

thespiderspeed wrote: »

.... I will rinse them down the plug-hole ...

It helps if you do so using the hot water tap. Otherwise I've known the little blighters to cling on and wait for the deluge to pass before re-emerging.

supergran2007

Polka_dot_zebra wrote: »

Conkers. Put them in the corners of rooms you tend to get spiders in, and you'll notice a huge reduction in the amount you get. I think it's the pheromones they give off - the spiders don't like it. Sounds daft, but it works

I have also heard that this is a good deterrant!!
(& yes, i'm another 'spider scaredy cat!!):rotfl: