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One of those massive, massive bastarding black house spiders has moved in to the top corner of my living room.

What the fuck do I do? I can't hoover it because it might...I can't even say it....but fall...you know? I can't just leave it because it gives me THE HORRORS.

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I really hate when people post pictures of spiders on a thread full of people with a phobia of them... Not cool.

Fuck doing a course. Why doesn't some enterprising person set up an emergency call out service for spider removal? Call it spiderbusters, or something. I'd pay.

Breathe! Ok, so they have eight eyes, which is a lot of squinting. (Bear with me here). Shine a bright light on it, which should make it do a runner. They dislike bright light. Won't harm it. You won't have to risk touching it.

nocool...I've been saying that for some time. I'd pay. Quite a lot!

I missed the start of this thread, so by now I hope you've taken the only real option and are stood in front of the smouldering ruins of your house, ordering furniture for your new place.....

Did you get some sleep OP?

And ally, I'm not even scared of spiders and that photo gave me the heeby jeebies. Not cool.

But wicked what help is that?
I am more worried if they dissapear as then you dont know where they are and can be ambushed anytime!
I wont go in a room which is housing a lost spider at all
It is pathetic i know but there you are !
And yes spider busters. Great idea ! Someone call dragons den quick. My daughter and i have said that if we won the lottery we would employ full time 24 hr spider catcher people for just such an emergency and i am 100% serious

Has someone posted a picture of a spider on the thread?

Has anyone asked MNHQ to delete it? I won't be able to read down thread to find the post. As I said before my Honiara extends to pictures of spiders.

Tut phobia God knows what an Honiara is

Charge it rent?

I do the cup and magazine technique. To get to a big size he must have been around a while, do t kill it. They are pretty amazing creatures.

*dont kill it!!!!

Flapjackfairy - we co-exist with the critters all the time. No house is spider-free, (nowt to do with how often you dust) it's just you don't see them all the time. Putting a house spider outside is actually killing the poor thing, as it really is a 'house' spider and can't live elsewhere. I can't be near a really big beastie and understand the phobia all too well, but spiders are useful little creatures.

Wicked it is fine to put them outside! This is one of the things we were told on the Friendly Spider Programme at London Zoo. Our houses are too dry for them really and you are doing them a favour by moving them to a woodpile, undergrowth or similar.

I do get desperate enough to resort to the hairspray, but have recently noticed that Elnette doesn't seem to work- I can hear it spray and smell it, but spiders just scuttle away. However, when I've used one of the small, cheap ones, it's a quick death (sorry people, I do need the Spider Course but doubt I could manage even the travelling with my permanent disabilities).

I did actually report the picture in haste but I guess it doesn't violate mn talk guidelines.

I am going to do the friendly spider programme, however, what happens when you come home and you're on your own?
What happens if you don't come across any decent sized spiders in the following month after completing the course?
I find I am braver around spiders when other people are around who are not phobic, but as soon as I am alone again, I am constantly looking out for them and can't cope if I see one. I want to be able to pick them up, by hand preferably but am I expecting too much from the friendly spider programme?
I've held big brown garden spiders in my hands and wondered what all the fuss was about, but I was with someone else who picked it up first and held it first. Since then, I still can't bear to go near one when I'm on my own. Does the programme help me cope when I'm on my own at a later date with no moral support?
I've read reviews of the course online and very few reviews mention a month or a year or 5 down the line and for the cost of the programme, I would like a life long cure.

Bloody hell lass, he's travelled so far to see you and you want to kill him?

He only wants a couple of flies and place to sleep for the night!.

Are you a serial killer?!

Like parking threads need diagrams, spider threads need photos of said spider alongside a ruler so we can see exactly how massive massive it really is!!

Love the dry shampoo comment, spat my nice glass of white over the lappie at that.

Jesus I did the course 2 years ago and it's still working. Looking at pictures helps I think if u don't actually see any spiders (as in keeping up 'exposure'). Haven't seen a spider for ages, then one in the kitchen the other day, didn't freak me out at all, none of the horrendous feelings/reactions I used to get. Course is sooo worth it.

DD once had a massive spider crawling on her back! I'm proper scared and instead of overcoming my fear, calmly brushing it off and letting it run off I went batshit. I screamed at DD that there was a huge spider o her, setting DD off too. She jumped up and down crying and I tried to brush it off with a broom. After all the panic I couldn't see it anywhere (poor thing had probably gone to hide) so instead of calming down I screamed at DD to get undressed in case it had gone in her clothes. Not my finest parenting moment.

Jesuswept, when I did the friendly spider programme, they said the objective was to help you be able to be calm enough to get a glass and a card and put the spider out of the house. That's it.

Bizarrely, the guy running it - who is head of the spider house at London Zoo - says he was himself arachnophobic once.

I can't see why the effect wouldn't last. I think once you've successfully got a few spiders out of the house you know you can do it, so are unlikely to go back to that frozen panic whenever you see one.

Sunny, That's positive. Thank you.
I don't really have a problem looking at them. It's the thought they might touch me or nip me if they get onto me that sends me into a panic. And then when I have held them, they feel like large ants, a bit ticklish and I feel a bit silly for being so irrationally frightened of them.
But then my resolve leaves me and they tend to appear when I'm least expecting them and once again I'm a gibbering breathless sweating wreck.
I really want to be cured. I want to view them the same way I view ants or gnats or flies.
Fingers crossed that the programme works.

Kettle, Thanks. If I could just put a glass or a jug over them without feeling that huge sense of panic, I'd be in a much better place.
At the moment, I can't do that without panicking because I can't stop thinking that they'll run up the side of the glass as I put it over them and then be on my hand, running inside me sleeve or into my hair. It's the thought of them getting onto me and biting me or I can't shake them off.
Every time I have touched one, I have had someone on standby in case they end up running up my arm or get into my hair, so I feel more confident because help is at hand, but I need to be able to deal with them on my own. There's not always someone here to help me and I just can't go through life so scared of them and anxious they will pop out unexpectedly at any time.

Sorry, meant to say Ketzele.

Legit reason to call 101