to ask for help on my SPIDER EMERGENCY?

[softlysoftly]

DDs are in bed, I'm 36wk pg and exhausted.

DD1 awake still DD2 a light sleeper. There is a MASSIVE spider on their floor which keeps going under the bed then ip onto the duvet and under again.

WTF do I do, I hate them I can't catch it. I could try and hoover it but then DD1 will know and her mattress is onffloor (trying out room sharing and I can't lift her frame) and she also hates them so won't sleep. Also DD2 will wake and she's a nightmare to get to sleep.

But can I ignore it, it's going to do a spidery bastard climb on my babies

Arrgghhh

I'm back.

Though the flame thrower idea was very very tempting I
wasnt entirely sure social services would accept "big bastard spider" as a reason for burning the DDs beds even if I did move them first unless tweasels was my social worker

After the failed Lynx attempt DD1 was in no way convinced I just wanted to make the floor smell nice so I enlisted her help. We tried the glass bowl trick but it kept running onto toys so she covered DD2s ears while I hoovered the fucker.

BUT after emptying toys from box another 1 appeared so soft toy box is now living in the garden until DH gets home.

DD2 stayed asleep DD1 is still awake and over hyped and I have no regrets!

Though DD1 did make me say sorry to the dyson for hurting the spider and promise DH will ser it free tomorrow

I would be interested to see those pics Gerund

run away to go and get all their mates who creep in after you've fallen asleep and lay eggs in your mouth and brain.

What a thread for before bed time

stealth. the flame thrower was invented way back in the 80#s and probably some time before that. a fellow student was telling me how they incinerated flowers in parents' gardens in their misguided teenage hood.

flame throwers should be saved for 8 legged beasties.

Glass / postcard trick? Nah.
I'll take squished spider bits thanks.

I'm itching like mad. I know there's not one on the back of my neck. I know this.

Hope you've got it OP.

soverylucky there is also the fear that you will bottle it mid-capture and drop glass, postcard AND SPIDER onto the floor.

Oh god op that's my worst nightmare:(

Do you have a cat? They catch and eat spiders, my dm told me so its true:)

Open the window
Have you got any ham? Put some on the end of a long stick and tempt it out. Then throw a tea towel over it and scrabble it up and throw the tea towel out of the window.

Or call a friend. I called a friend once when this happened to me and he zoomed over in a taxi and captured it. Then i was shouting " don't kill it!" Whilst standing on my bed in my pants and breathing into a brown paper bag.

Another one???

See, I told you it'd get its mates.

oh fuck objection.... mners everywhere will be having nightmares... it iwll put mns posting figures up though as there will be millions of sleepless posters looking for somethingto get them through the night.

Move children from bedroom, shut door, seal with towels, cover with bin liners, tape all edges and finally find in random shit drawer a DO NOT ENTER sign.
Job done.

These threads come up so often and I'm sure someone will be along soon with their experience of how they were successfully treated for spider phobia.
The really important thing is not to let your DC learn the fear from you.

Nice work, OP.

GUTTED that the flamethrower method wasn't given a fair crack.

Don't forget to check the soft toy box for spider nests when it comes back in from the garden.

No they die in the dyson.
Definite.
I've watched one before for evidence of this.

Holy shit, this is making me itch.
Dc and I were on the trampoline last year and dd discovered a spider on her dress. I had always those if this situation arose that I would be able to calmly deal with it and not freak out.
Well I kicked poor dd to squash it

hidden - have just put a pic on my Flickr page here. May not be too bad for arachnophobes as it's a small and not very hairy white spider, but it is still a spider. And also fly-lovers (if any exist) may find the image distressing.

Oh Lordy there's No Way!!!!! I could go as close as a glass and a postcard. Not even if my life depended on it. I'm serious. I am convinced that is how I'll eventually go - some inane spider situation that puts me off guard.

do not use a crappy hoover. I have one of those hand held things that did not suck the bastard up, I had to scoop it up in the hoover and now I am incapable of emptying it, three years on.

they also do not die if you wash them in the washing machine. you just end up witha wet, dizzy pissed off spider. made the mistake of thinking it was dead as it was curled up and I was just reaching in to scoop it up in kitchen roll when the damn thing came too and uncurled itself. windows were shatterd in a half mile radius.

I use the loft hatch pole to squish the ones that run in the corner of the ceiling, thus avoiding being flattened by a flip flop. I leave the corpses as a deadly reminder to their compatriots and not because I can not deal with them.