To ask how you deal with spiders in the home?

[CaptainDamaged]

Last night I was hanging laundry in our bedroom and after lifting DPs trousers to hang a huge fat swollen spider fell out of his trouser leg. It was dead, obviously had burrowed itself into dps trouser leg —no matter how many times I tell him not to leave his clothes on the bathroom floor—. I can’t get it’s huge swollen body out of my mind, it was such a strange colour

SO please tell me how you usually deal with spiders in the home? I usually trap them into a glass and wait for DP to get home. I feel absolutely awful about said spider, do you think it suffered?

Fully prepared to be told iabu and that I need to get a life.

I like to scream, run away and never use that room again.

I Hoover them up or put a massive book on them and do it in the morning.

I kill them

Hoover

Cellar spiders

Never ever kill them. They get rid of the big house spiders
We now have a few and I love them

I saw something called Dethlac mentioned on here. I spray it round skirting boards, windows etc just before they start appearing in autumn. Also a water and essential oil spray that I spray everywhere!

I catch them, pop them in a glass and put them outside. I don't particularly like them but I don't kill them 😊

I don't, I welcome them for their help in keeping ants/silverfish/odd woodlouse or other beastie under control.

I capture cellar spiders from work and introduce them into the house after summer ends to take on the now big and well fed black ones. Circle of life

Some of them are quite quick and we play a game of cat and mouse. I always catch them in the end though 😁

Death by whatever comes to hand.

Flame thrower.

Oh don't kill them. You can get a spider sucker upper on amazon and just pop it outside.

I leave the little critters to do their own thing unless it’s a false widow, I completely obliterate them into spider mush, they are the only spider I will not have in my house.
DD has a fine collection of tarantulas, we are a spider living family.

I leave them alone. Sometimes I admire them for their beautiful markings, and may call other members of the family to admire them.

Now that I have a child and can’t be seen to be a total wuss I hoover them. If my OH is home he catches them and releases them.

I just put them outside. I used to "scream, run away and never use that room again." as a PP said, but after watching (from the next room) a plumber, who was working in our utility room, calmly take an enormous spider out of the sink, open the door and put it in the garden, I resolved to get over the fear. I found that if you just stop and force yourself to deal with it, instead of running away, the fear very soon fades to nothing.
That's why you see spider phobias "cured" very quickly on TV shows. Your body very soon learns to stay calm. You don't get that "jump" reaction and huge surge of adrenaline.
I strongly advise anyone with this phobia to try steeling themselves to face it and deal with it. Just take a deep breath, go back in the room and make yourself do it. With a glass and piece of card if needs be, although I have just gently picked up spiders and put them outside via window or door. The confidence you feel when you realise that you would no longer feel terror if you saw a spider in your house is wonderful. It's also especially worth doing if you have children to whom you don't want pass on your fear of spiders.

Spiders are predators for more annoying bugs aren't they?

So often let them be or catch in a glass and put out of a door or window. But I'm not too fussed if they come back in. I'm not too keen on them in a bedroom in case they fall on me in the night haha

let them do their thing, occasionally I will clear the cobwebs and let then start again.

I think spider webs are a thing of beauty

Glass, piece of card - release into garden. Also have a cleverly spring loaded brush grabber thing that I bought when DDs uni house was spider central - good for grabbing ones too high or in awkward places. Not bothered by them in this country

Shows how vile humans are at times that they kill so easily .. nothing gets killed in my house , I'm as frightened if spiders as the next person but I always move them carefully .

There is one living behind my kitchen cupboards right now. It is welcome to rid the house of silver fish, ants and flies, but if it comes too close I may kill it instinctively.

I am becoming more and more phobic but I try not to kill them.

I kill them. Where I live a lot of them are venomous and some are huge! Not safe to touch at all, especially not safe for young DCs if they stumble upon them. So I never risk messing about trying to catch them - they all get the spray and I wait to make sure they are dead, then I put gloves on and throw them into the garden.

I meant to say in my previous post that if I see a massive spider and lose sight of it, I don't bother "hunting it down" to evict it, I just leave it and forget about it. I could never have done that before I got over the phobia several years ago. Obviously none of that would apply if I lived somewhere like Australia where the spiders can be lethal, but as I'm in the UK I'm downright blasé these days.

If they are below a certain size or well hidden in a cupboard I will ignore them. My cats often get to them first and toy with them until they die though 😑 I find little legs all over the place come September

When I lived in the UK I never killed them - I just did the glass and cardboard thing and put them outside. If they aren't dangerous then it seems a bit silly to kill them...