To humanely squash massive spiders

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They're huge, they're in my house, and I'm terrified of them. 3 in 2 weeks. Big ones.

I love animals, I feel really guilty but I just can't live with them. They're massive and they're really unusually fast and I'm constantly on edge in my own home.

So AIBU to squash and remove?

(I'm only squashing because DH away and I am SO scared that leaving them to go through the house to pop up another day is scarier than getting near enough to squash. Although it still takes about half an hour to work up to it)

www.amazon.co.uk/Brainstorm-B2001-Spider-Catcher/dp/B000X26IRE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428010952&sr=8-1&keywords=spider+catcher
Try one of these, DH is very phobic and this keeps the little buggers at arms length. Then you can release them back into the wild, guilt free!

Please don't kill them. It's not their fault they have so many legs and eyes.

Just let them alone or do the glass bowl trick.

[says she who is now feeding a newly-discovered rat that lives under the linoleoum in the kitchen]

Use the bug katcha from Binary's link:

www.lakeland.co.uk/24752/Big-Bug-Katcha-Extended

Get yourself a long stick too (garden cane?), then you can push the flap closed over spider without getting near, and turf him out the window. I'm fucking terrified of them, but always use this.

I have a totally fab photo I took of a spider I could show you, if you wanted me to.

Fuck no.

Are there any spider pictures on those links? I've heard someone else talk about the Lakeland one, might be worth a try.

If you let them out though don't they just come back in? That's what DH says, hence the cull.

Thanks for the links :)

Ooh the Lakeland one looks good. The last 2 have been on the floor though, so not sure how it would work with them as you'd have to be standing over them.....? Hmmmmmm......need to do something though.

And need to stock up on random acts of kindness for a bit the try and balance this out.

I hate spiders and would love to squish them but I feel bad about it... One of those long spider catchers does the trick...

(Or I scream and put a huge glass bowl over it and leave it there till DH gets home!)

If there's a big house spider, there will be a mate. So if you kill one, expect another shortly.

I know it won't hurt me, but frankly I'd prefer it not to be spidering freely around my living room.

Ooh I like the look of that one with the bristles, madam!

Yanbu. They're hardly endangered. Kill them.

Oh please don't. You cannot "humanely" crush something to death. They're not litter, waiting to be tidied away. They eat other insects and spin a web and sit in a high corner, keeping out of your way.

Yabu and have earned my first Yabu on an aibu thread! Don't kill spiders! Poor spiders.

I don't understand people who squish spiders...The idea of spider squishedness to clear up makes me feel a little sick. I do understand being scared of a scuttling spider but surely spider goo is worse? I'm personally not scared of spiders , I like them, but I am always worried about accidentally standing on one because I'd have to clear up the little spider body afterwards and that does freak me out!

Btw I have thought people are BU before now but haven't ever actually felt the need to comment - but I must defend spiders!

Why not deal with your phobia OP?
There are many treatments available and they can be very successful.
And please, please don't teach your DC the same phobia by showing them yours.

I'd just squish them or they will come back, but then my sister is allergic to spider bites so its them or her.

I overcame my fear (it wasn't bad enough to be called a phobia) by making myself pick up a dead spider. My heart pounded so hard I thought it would burst. But ever since then I've been happy to trap spiders on my hands and carry them outside (where they probably don't want to be). I tried to pass this attitude on to DD but she's totally wimpy and calls me to catch spiders in her room.

Kill kill kill... Use flames if necessary

Please get one of the humane catchers!
Spiders aren't little mindless scuttling raisins with legs; their bodies are very intricate and complex, like little steampunk hydraulic engines :)
My mum was and still is arachnophobic. She used to squash them or get my dad to until I was old enough to stand up for the little blighters and catch them myself.

If you ignore them they go away and then you can carry on as normal. A thud nearby is usually enough to send one running, I normally chuck my shoe at the skirting board or lower wall when I see a spider in the house and off it runs. Or if it's a room you don't need to be in, close the door and go away, it'll be gone by the time you get back.

We have a couple of huge spiders in the house, I very rarely see them because they keep to themselves and I keep to myself. We get very few flies though, I'm presuming they're taking care of them :o

I can't stand them. The big ones truly terrify me and my reactions are entirely involuntary.

Husband traps them in a glass or cup and takes them outside, with me insisting he goes waaaaaaay down the garden or road before releasing them.

If I do have to deal with them when he is out or away then the Dyson is a great tool.

Whatever happens, I am always a quivering wreck during and afterwards. It makes no difference that I know they are harmless to me because the nature of a phobia is that it is irrational.

There really must be a better way of controlling the insect population than bloody spiders.

Also I think some spiders it's just as cruel to put them outside as it is to squash them? I'm no expert but I'm sure I read on a similar thread that it's too cold outside and they freeze to death.

I will never understand Mumsnet.

Constantly I'm reading that grown women are so scared of spiders, that they expect their husbands or anyone else with a penis to deal with them.

If you have a proper phobia, then why not seek proper help?

Spiders will always have to be dealt with, so I don't understand why some people don't woman up and learn to deal with them?

If you lived alone you'd have to get on with it, unless you want to constantly do a damsel in distress act to your male neighbours.

I LOVE spiders. Used to be petrified but overcame it and now genuinely love them. Don't kill it, put it outside

House spiders will die outside anyway. May as well finish them off quickly.

Pint glass, stiff card, out.

I never use my penis to deal with spiders.

I always thought it was quite possible to, you know, just ignore them until they go, if you happen to be squeamish.

Love the idea of seeking 'proper help' though. Fear of spiders is a normal fear. It's not rational, but it's common, and it's not like it's hard to cope with.

I couldn't squish a spider - it makes me cringe - but if there's one in a bath or basin, just pop a length of loo roll in, so it can climb up and get out. If they're all over the place otherwise, you need to hoover under everything - they like undisturbed nooks and crannies, so if you have hoovered all of those those, they should be less keen to come in.