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To burn the house down or demolish it in some way

26 replies

Partypolitics99 · 29/08/2017 01:37

Come back from two nights away and opened one of my kitchen cupboards were the mugs are kept to find a huge spider in a web and about 100 spider babies Shock
DH is not hear for another night and I can't get rid of them myself

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Partypolitics99 · 29/08/2017 01:38

I don't even have a vacuum cleaner as it has broken and we are meant to be getting a new one this week

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QueenOfVipers · 29/08/2017 02:31

YANBU,
Would you like to stay in my spare room once you've burned your house down?
I'll bring the petrol
Grin

sebumfillaments · 29/08/2017 02:40

Yanbu

Can you Hoover them up and then set fire to the hoover?

ThoseFemalesAreStrongAsHell · 29/08/2017 02:54

Whaaat babiesShock.

I am trying to be a bit more tolerant of spiders lately after reading a thread on here im not sure where it is but ill link it when i find it. Really knowledgeable posters and one of them does a job (cant remember what it is now) that involves going into attics and they said that theres spiders in every attic no matter what, even if its converted, my bedroom is a converted attic so I better put up or literally move out.

Im not agraphobic just dont like the fuckers since I was about 7 and I put some knickers on from my drawer and a massive huge one crawled out and down my legs later on that day.

But tbf I think a huge one and babies too would make me want to cry. So my answer is YANBU.

Seeingadistance · 29/08/2017 03:12

I put some knickers on from my drawer and a massive huge one crawled out and down my legs later on that day.

Aaaaaaaaargh!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!

ThoseFemalesAreStrongAsHell · 29/08/2017 03:37

Seeingadistance I know right?! Im scarred mentally and emotionally Grin.

It wasnt even straight away either it was quite a while after I kept feeling slight tickles but I put it down to loose cotton or something, I was wearing a skirt too and I saw it crawl out and down. Bloody hell even thinking about it now is bringing up that awful feeling that I had.

I keep telling myself I must be more tolerant towards spiders i'm okay if theyre not crawling, OP are the baby spiders crawling?! If they are, move houseGrin.

Sarahsue1 · 29/08/2017 03:47

😱❌☠️🙈😭😭😭😭horror - i would freak just the image has made me hdjwhfhskdbdkdbdosbdisbdisdbdkdbdjdjdndjjd. I recently had a spider run across the laminate floor in my attic bedroom after we had bastard mice (thanks next door terraced house) and its legs made a click patter sound it was so big i thought it was a baby mouse. I wear ear plugs every night in bed incase one of them tries to crawl in my ear. Cupboard situation would finish me off and knicker situation CHRIST. Yes i am a grown woman and no i do not care. Haaaaaaaate them they creep me out something else. And groups of them at once make me die inside it makes me feel sick urgh nothing to say that can help except yes you need to burn that cupboard out - joking / not joking Flowers

TumbleBee · 29/08/2017 07:43

But spiders are your friends! They make the webs and catch the flies. And hordes of flies are revolting and also creepy. (Where are they coming from? Is there a dead mouse somewhere? Is there a dead body somewhere? Have you seen next door neighbour recently? Etc)

Partypolitics99 · 29/08/2017 22:26

Yes the little ones are moving. I have actually taped the cuboard shut and am waiting for DH to be home tomorrow

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QOD · 29/08/2017 23:28

🔥 🕷 🏡 🔥 👌🏼

ASongOfRiceAndPeas · 30/08/2017 00:29

Grab some raid spray pronto.

Failing that, aerosol deodorant and a lighter

Meadow74 · 30/08/2017 07:43

Flyspray is your friend! I currently have a can in every room of the house!

Partypolitics99 · 30/08/2017 08:03

I actually have not seen the neightbour for a few weeks, thought they were on holiday but..............Shock

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QueenMortificado · 30/08/2017 08:04

Awwww don't kill them!! Can't you put them outside in a shed?

statementOfInterest · 30/08/2017 08:29

@ThoseFemalesAreStrongAsHell

One of the funniest sentences I've read in a long time.

SideOrderofSprouts · 30/08/2017 08:31

Oh god. Burn it

I was staying at my grandparents once and went to bed. Woke up in the middle of the night to hundreds of baby spiders crawling all over my face, neck and shoulders.

I may have swallowed some

They hatched in the pillow. I ran downstairs screaming.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 30/08/2017 08:44

I once let a spider stay on my wall at uni. It wasn't that big that I needed it gone but it was too big for me to remove myself.

Anyway, one day it seemed to explode into a thousand mini spiders that all grew to be the same size as the original one. Burning that room down was the only choice.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 30/08/2017 08:57

I have a massive creepy one that lives behind my bookshelf.
We have an understanding. He eats all the flies and other nasties, I don't condemn him to a cold and miserable death by flinging him outside. Just as long as he keeps hidden in the day time.
I say "he", it could well be a lady spider but I don't want to look too close and don't know how to spot the difference anyway.
For such a useful animal, why are they so bloody creepy?

Fekko · 30/08/2017 09:00

Moths are worse. The Buggers once got into some Tupperware (nuts) and scared the beJesus out of me.

wonkylegs · 30/08/2017 09:05

We have millions of spiders (big old house in the countryside) , after 4 years of living here I'm now happily co-existing with them although I was still a bit Shock when we replaced the windows and I saw how many were living I the box sashes.
Mice still make me jump though but we only get them when it's really cold outside.

SockEatingMonster · 30/08/2017 09:23

I grew up in an old house complete with giant spiders. When I was about 5 I felt a small creature run up the bed, under the duvet, lightly brushing against my leg and side as it did so. I then heard it run up past my pillow. For some reason I thought it was a mouse (which I loved) so switched on my bedside lamp to see if I could find it. Giving up, I turned off the lamp and laid back on my pillow, only to see the silhouette of the BIGGEST HOUSE SPIDER EVER stretched out on my headboard Shock

I was visiting my parents (same house) last week and a spider the size of a small cat* casually strolled across the sitting room floor. Place is riddled with them. It's my childhood home, but could really do with being razed to the ground.

*possible exaggeration

Brittbugs80 · 30/08/2017 09:35

I got in my car yesterday morning. There was a web going from the wheel, to the indicator stick, to the gear stick and back up.

All I could think about was that the fucking spider is still roaming round the car somewhere and whether that would be a valid reason to return my car to the showroom and exchange it three years early!

AnarchyKitty · 30/08/2017 09:38

I'm rural. The spiders this year are massive. I feel your pain.

To burn the house down or demolish it in some way
Sarahsue1 · 31/08/2017 00:24

@sideorderofsprouts shit a brick that is xoxbdjdbsosbsodbsjsvsksbdjdhdhdjbd I just cannot. Eeeeeeeurbh!!!!! Heebie macabre jeebies.

Mittens1969 · 31/08/2017 00:33

I'm not afraid of spiders, I mostly ignore them. But if it's in the bedroom I always remove it if I can, as the thought of waking up and discovering it in my bed is a little bit creepy.

But when I was in Uganda for two months, there were regularly cobras near the outside latrine, so spiders here are not all that bad.

My DDs hate them though, I often have to be the spider catcher lol.

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