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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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OP. I'm petrified of spiders. If there's a spider in the house when DH is away, I open the window get the spider onto a broom and shake the broom out of the window. It isn't always successful but at least you don't have to get close to the spider.

Don' kill it please

Kim I think if I did that I'd end up lobbing the broom out the window with the spider

Mrs I'm not going to kill it, but with the best will in the world, I can't just sit nervously glancing at it until it dies of natural causes.

Is there someone you can call, fairly local? I've done it before.

OP, fellow phobic here. Just walk out in the street and wait for a friendly person to come along and ask for help. I've done this and a complete stranger kindly removed the spider for me.
You can't sit there all night staring at the horror.

We need a picture

NO WE BLOODY WELL DO NOT

Exactly how odd is neighbour? Odd enough to be spider-friendly? I'd chance it.

Thank you for not killing it my dear I hope it has gone now

I used to be afraid of spiders. Now I know better....

...after being bitten on the cheek in the night by a cockroach! I woke up just in time to swat it off my flesh and see what it was.

How can you sleep after something like that? Spiders have never caused me trouble like that.

I've been bitten by a spider, Baldrick - and it got horribly infected! At least, I think it was a spider...

I was actually joking re. the picture!

I too have an absolutely irrational fear of spiders and would feel exactly the same as you. I have called someone (boyfriend ) to get rid of a spider and when he didn't and it fell on my bed, I went home with him and refused to sleep in the room until it had been completely cleared.

I can suggest getting cats, I have two house cats and almost never see spiders now.

Although now I've jinxed myself and I'm home alone until midnight!

I have come to bed.

I've signed up for the course outlined earlier.

I am OBVS going to sleep SO WELL 😩

Shut your bedroom door and block the bottom with rolled up towels stuffed against it. It gives you peace of mind.

If the neighbour is an oddball then they might like spiders and won't think you're strange for knocking.

I wouldn't mind you knocking. I wouldn't help you unless you count shrieking and screaming and fainting in solidarity but I wouldn't think it odd if you knocked.

Good idea lulu

Even if it manages to turn the door handle, the towels jam the door closed. Double lock so to speak! It won't get through any gaps, or be able to open the door. Dh and I slept like that for weeks last summer.

I rather think we should sleep in mosquito nets to keep out spiders. In fact, I think we should wear body suits fashioned out of mosquito nets at all times... just in case.

Have you got a hoover with a hose attachment? The attachment for mine is long enough that I can stand slightly aside from the spider so if it fell it wouldn't land on me, then I move the hose close to the spider before switching it on so the suction gets it before the noise scares it away. I then tie a bag or something over the end of the hoover attachment so it can't crawl back out again.

Once I was at a kids party in the church hall, chatting to a friend while leaning against a wall. I felt something tickle the side of my face... My friend backed away, saying, "Do not come near ;me". There were 30 children cavorting around me, and I walked - like a frozen zombie - to the exit where an unknown man was chatting with his wife. I seized his arm and hissed, "You have to come with me NOW" and propelled him out of the hall, then lost my shit, shrieking, "GET THAT SPIDER OUT OF MY HAIR!".

I'm still rather impressed at how well he and his wife took his being kidnapped by a deranged stranger. He got rid of the spider though, commented, "That was a big fucker", and walked back into the party.

Oh, one last thing: if anyone on this thread DOES do the Friendly Spider Course, do PM me: it would be great if we could do a 'how was it for you' thread after, to share if we thought it worked and encourage other phobics on board.

Shit, allypally, must you?!

ally that was a pretty unkind photo to post.