to ask for help on my SPIDER EMERGENCY?

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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

My cat is good as long as she sees them. She doesn't understand pointing, screaming or begging. Or pretends not to. I think cats are a bit shortsighted so sometimes miss the blighters. If she sees them though they are DOOMED - ha ha - and that is nature do I can live guilt free once my legs have stopped wobbling.

I hated spiders as a child, was really scared of them, used to cry in silent terror when I had to go into the spidery larder to fetch something. My mother was the same (but I still had to brave the spiders).

When DD was born, I vowed she would not suffer. Every time we saw a spider, we talked about how lovely it was, how useful, how amazing that it had so many eyes and so many legs. We watched other people squealing and said, 'We like spiders' as a mantra ... and she does.

She will happily pick up large spiders and cannot understand the fuss.

It is learned behaviour and can be unlearned.

Also, killing a spider is unlucky... so DON'T.

WELL DONE THAT MOTHER!!

It is an awful thing to teach your child a phobia.

WELL DONE THAT MOTHER!!

It is an awful thing to teach your child a phobia.

WELL DONE THAT MOTHER!!

It is an awful thing to teach your child a phobia.

Sorry about the repeats. Poor wifi

I hate them with a passion. One nearly touched my foot the other day. Dd was having a nap out of the way thank goodness and then dh fannied around before trying to get it. Whilst I was on the edge of the sofa petrified.
I vacuumed one up once, it was on my bedroom wall above my head and dh was on a night shift. I did it though, put the vacuum outside in case it came back.
My fear is totally irrational but thats just how I am. Eight legsis just greedy, nothing needs that many

I couldn't do the glass thing if I was paid large sums of money.

I will stick to my method of loud hysteria until someone rescues me. If they don't, I move out.

I am having hypnotherapy soon though and really hope it works.

DM always tells us the story about when I was four weeks old and asleep in my cot-she went to check me and there was a huge house spider on me.
She was petrified and left the room! Went back a few mins later and it was running round the cot so she left again, had a cup of tea, went back and it had gone.

Apparently this is why, as a small child I wasn't afraid of spiders!

DD is scared of spiders. Wuss.

Killing a spider will bring you 8 years bad luck

True fact.

Oh you wimpy lot its just a spider ,mice however I hate the fuckers and their long tails I can't be in the house with them I once had to decamp to my mum and dads when we had one for some reason they scare the the hell out of me!!

Word of warning. If you need to transport your cardboard recycling in your car...check it very thoroughly!

You have been warned! I can no longer use the family car as it hasn't been captured yet!

OK I had it Worst, now I just have it Bad. I can cope using, not glass and postcard, but mug and postcard. (It's so much easier if you can't see them.) How did I get from worst to bad? I did the London Zoo Friendly Spiders course. www.zsl.org/experiences/friendly-spider-programme It's brilliant. In half a day you go from phobic to picking up a tarantula. Yes really really. It does wear off a bit - hence me not yet being Good - but once you've done it, you know you dont actually die.

For proof, here is a pic of me holding a tarantula - possibly triggering, at all? And if you click on that, you see something much more scary, next you see my hand and a house spider, which is much more real. Keep clicking.

Do the course, everyone. Expensive, but it will change your life.
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Lol at "spiders up to an inch".

We have huntsmen living in our upstairs, which we like because they eat mosquitoes. Their legs are a couple of inches long, each. Thinner than tarantulas, not as cute, but pretty much the same size.

Where are you Tortie? At least 6000 miles away yes?

Don't chuck a colander over it from a few feet away, congratulating yourself on the humane capture with airholes and everything.

The big lolloping house house spider squeezed out of the tiny colander holes..

Would just like to add, beware when lifting up your loo cistern for any reason. What I call 'bungee spiders' seem to manage to live inside. What do they eat? Algae??

This has been one of my favourite threads although it has made me all creepy itchy
I have too many spider traumae to list, but lived in a (not especially old but middle of nowhere) house where the spiders were so big you could hear them walk across carpets (I kid you not) and my dad was routinely bitten when evacuating the beasts.
Wonder why old houses have more spiders, or is it that they have been breeding for centuries and some are actually 400 years old?
I am training up my two year old to be spider fatcher in ourmhoise. This started at 3mths old with the purchase of a red blue and yellow soft toy spider of which I STILL have an irrational fear

Catcher in our house. Doh.

Oh Sallying I spent the first 3 years of DD1s life farting around going "ooh look an ickle spider let's see if baba wants to help you take him to see his mummy and daddy outside?" While inwardly trying not to scream and run.

She played with the little hairy bastards with her baba, drew pictures etc then hit 4 and it's like a switch flipped and she wouldn't go near them. So I have taught her nothing

I have trained my spaniel to eat them! This method means the whole of the downstairs of the house is spider free, she will also 'free run' up. Walls to get them, cue paw prints in strange places!

Upstairs they're rescued by a glass and card if I can reach them easily, if not, the Dyson it is. Which is then promptly emptied in the outside bin!

On more than one occasion I have woken up to find myself on the other side of the room shrieking at DP to turn the light on as there's a spider in the bed! It usually takes my sleep fuddled brain a few minutes to twig that I wouldn't have been able to see a spider as it's dark, but I always have to turn the light on to check - especially under my pillow!

I HATE the sneaky wee fuckers!

Please explain the (nice) spindly spiders eating the (evil) big spiders without me googling it or clicking on a link. I'm too scared! If that's true they are my saviours.

I used to be crying/screaming/asking-strangers-in-off the-street phobic of spiders. I had 2 sessions of hypnosis before a holiday to Bali and it helped a lot.

I still hate the bastard 8 legged fuckers but I can use the glass & card method without having a total meltdown.

Dd seems to like them so I'm hoping to train her up into Chief Spider Evicter by the time she turns 3.

i tried a spider catcher once unfortunately i panicked and clubbed it to death WITH the catcher

i don't know why spiders can't just stay at houses where they are welcome surely they notice i spray them with everything from hairspray to carb cleaner?