Not money saving, but if anyone will know - it'll be someone here!! Spiders!

sassyblue

TeamLowe wrote: »

Rocksteady *loves* spiders, he thinks they're great fun to play with, just wish he wouldn't lose interest when they stopped moving, sometimes he gets too bored and doesn't eat the b*gger.
Cats are sadistic, but slightly useful lol

Yes l had a cat that would kill them and eat them which is okay until she'd come and sit on my knee and expect a cuddle it gave me the hee-bee-gee-bees to touch her knowing that spider was inside her. Bleurgh!

amandakins

i'm scared of spiders but if they leave me alone I'll leave them alone...rather do the glass and card removal than kill them as I hate flies!!

We had 3 giant ones in the bath over last week, all jumped in at night so there when we got up. Just put a length of toilet roll down from top of bath to bottom and when I got home from work they had climbed themselves out and gone away each time :T

Bufger

Apart from the obvious place (trees) - where is the best place to get conkers? what time of year do you get them etc?

I know that sounds barmy but i never did go conker picking as a youth and i have no idea!

RacyRed

amandakins wrote: »

i'm scared of spiders but if they leave me alone I'll leave them alone...rather do the glass and card removal than kill them as I hate flies!!

We had 3 giant ones in the bath over last week, all jumped in at night so there when we got up. Just put a length of toilet roll down from top of bath to bottom and when I got home from work they had climbed themselves out and gone away each time :T

For bath spiders, make a spider ladder?

gratefulforhelp_2

Hootie19 wrote: »

Thank GOD I'm not freaked by spiders, because as soon as September hit us, so did Spider Season.

Oh.

My.

God!!!!

WHY are they all so bloody HUGE this year :eek::eek: ? Every one I've seen in our house this year has been all legs and big fat bodies. Is this because they have actually eaten all the normal spiders?

Will every future September see ever bigger and fatter spiders?

Or are all the big beggars all in our house, and everyone else has the normal ones?

Can't read rest of thread as itching already, but lemon oil is supposed to repel them.

sashadesade

Those huge spiders are called (unsurprisingly) giant house spiders. I'm absolutely terrified of spiders and these ones are the bane of my life. I've actually thought about hypnotherapy to try and cure my fear of them but it's just too expensive. I spend autumn living on a knife edge waiting to get ambushed by these things. I know how melodramatic that sounds but I can't help it!

Oh, as for the conker thing, I tried it last year. I still saw spiders but whether I would have seen more without them, who's to say? Also one spider decided to use a conker as a wee seat, so they can't be that bothered by them. Overall not a great success, though I'll still be putting them down again this year - anything that might help.

victory

I came down the other morning at 3am for a drink and there trying to get into the kitchen was this massive spider:eek: I stood at the bottom of the stairs, the spider stopped, I stopped, then I got my slipper and splat:D can't let it all my food can I?

Kaz2904

My cat won't even catch spiders, she runs away from them. I've given up picking her up and plonking her down in front of them. Maybe she knows Phil Jupitas's nan's poem?
DH will now catch them and remove them after DD was found howling downstairs in the kitchen in a puddle of piddle when she was little because there was a spider blocking her way to the toilet. The spider had been there for days and we had both been asking him to remove it but he wouldn't. I woke him up, made him apologise to DD, clean up the wee and move the spider whilst I put her back to bed. He's more understanding now

sassyblue

RacyRed wrote: »

For bath spiders, make a spider ladder?

Why one earth would you want to let them out of the bath? They can't get out of the bath without help - but if they're let out they're running round the house waiting to terrify you!

No, no, no - in the bath is GOOD.

juliethemuse

i knew i shouldnt have started reading this, i'm now itchy, and batting imaginary spiders off myself,
its so daft, but i am petrified of them, i am trying to overcome it, and i'm not as bad as i was as a teen, my parents lived in the country and every day these HUGE monster things would appear, bungee jumping and in my room, in my bed all over me... i'm batting them off as i type