Spiders, live and let live OR...

[PlentyofThrish]

So I know we're supposed to be kind and gentle to all living things and I'm trying my best to be the hip, undertanding bohemian parent. But september IS coming up and I've already seen the signs an upcoming spider invasion, big ones, small ones, thin ones, crunchy ones. So my distain for them aside, if they start to outnumber the family 5 to 1 and with them crawling on the floor where little DS crawls, AIBU to SQUOOSH THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS out of them?

[TheSolitaryBoojum]

Wh not catch them and put them outside? I hate being bitten by all the bloodsucking insects around, the more spiders the better
IMO.

[gwenneh]

If they're outside, they can live.

If they're inside, it's Starship Troopers and every man for himself.

[Mountainviewloo]

Yanbu. If they're in my house they can meet the bottom of my shoe and I couldn't give two fucks.

[Hillarious]

Bad luck to kill a spider. Scoop them up in a pint glass and send them outside.

[WashBasketsAreUs]

Look at it this way - if you
were in their house ( I.e. their web) they'd eat you! Squash away!

[SmileEachDay]

Scoop them up in a pint glass and send them outside.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No

I can't get close enough to kill them either though, so I just have to give them the house.

[KurriKurri]

I don't squish them (could never bring myself to do that to anything)

Big fat hairy ones on the floor - I catch and put outside
Big fat hairy ones high up in a corner of the ceiling - I leave them alone
Thin wispy ones - I live in harmony with
Any in the bath - I catch and put outside
Unlucky/slow ones get pounced on my the dog.

[WiganPierre]

YABU and cruel

[Nikephorus]

Catch & throw outside (or, if small, tell them to keep out of the way of the hoover and just brush their webs away when cleaning - and yes, I will have a conversation with them out loud!)
Don't hurt them. It's not their fault they were designed scary-looking and faster runners than us.

[dementedma]

the ones we get are too big and too fast to get in a pint glass and I would throw up and drop the glass and cut myself and then would have to clean up sick, and blood and broken glass AND there would still be a fucking spider loose in the house!!!!
Kill the bastards. I don't run about in their houses uninvited so why should they do it in mine?

[BarbarianMum]

Live and let live - me inside, them outside, at one with nature and stuff.

[9GreenBottles]

YABU. Spiders are good luck (probably because they eat flies).

[LadyDeadpool]

hmm a little boy stomps on a bug and hes going to be a serial killer, yet adult women take huge amounts of joy in killing a useful harmless bug and its funny?

[AlmostAJillSandwich]

Im terrified of spiders but find giving them a name and talking to them helps with the live and let live option. Every spider is syd, syd the spid. As long as they stay away from me and dont go on the ceiling over my head, and are on the smaller side i let them be. If theyre big i get my dad who uses the hoover hose to get them. Putting them out would be preferable but hes not keen either for either of us to be brave enough to trap and take them out.

[Shamoo]

killing spiders - unless you have a genuine phobia of them that you have tried to address - says an awful lot about a person. None of it good.

[LadyKyliePonsonbyFarquhar]

All spiders in our house are called Charlotte. doesn't stop me hoovering them up

[fakenamefornow]

If you have a veg patch catch them and let them go there so they can eat pests.

[fakenamefornow]

Flies, wasps (not bees) stuff like that get the bottom of my shoe. Spiders are good bugs, they eat bad bugs!

[TheKidsAreTakingMySanity]

Get an infestation of cellar spiders instead. They look scary until you realise that their tiny body and spindly thin legs (and the fact they hardly even move) are nothing in comparison to the big hairy buggers WHICH THEY EAT! Those lovely critters stop the big nasties!

Here's a pic of mama cellar spider doing her job. She lives in our bathroom.... and nothing else does.

[MrsMonkeyBear]

I'm normally up for humane disposal of spiders but after last night's scene from Arachnophobia*, I'm squishing every last one of them!!!

*75th trip to the loo (30w pregnant) grab loo roll and what only can be described as Aragog's little brother falls out the tube.

[SmileEachDay]

I've actually managed to reduce my spider phobia around cellar spiders since I found out they eat the other sort

I wouldn't want one on my, but they live in my house and I can be in the same room.

They don't do the charging at you scuttle thing.

[Decaffstilltastesweird]

Wh not catch them and put them outside? I hate being bitten by all the bloodsucking insects around, the more spiders the better
IMO.


Agree with this^^ completely!

I'm in charge of spider removal in our house. DH hates them and would squish. I don't mind picking them up in a mug and putting outside. Give me a ring, I'll come and do it for you .

One of my sils hates spiders and swears by conkers. Not sure if it's a load of bollocks or not.

[TooSleepyToCare]

You could get a spider hoover from eBay or similar.
I can't stand snails but I could never kill one.
Live and let live IMHO.

[Christinedunne]

Haha squoosh! But seriously yanbu I hate them too and if they're trespassing in my house they're getting squished under a boot

[MrsTerryPratchett]

The ones in the basement can live. The ones in the main house can move outside (care of a glass or DH), the ones in the car, I quite like but DD finds hard so they get moved too.

The ones at work I like to feed and encourage because my boss hates them bwahahahaha.