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.

The majority of breeds will die if you put them outside anyway (hence the term “house spiders”), so if you’re going to go that it’s actually kinder just to put them out of their misery, quickly.

Oh no - really?

I never see any spiders in my house, they stopped coming in about three years ago. I suspect Aragorn lives in the cellar and they are all too scared to come in so I just never go down there.
Also the cat used to eat them. Could be she gets them before I see any.

I either leave them alone or pick them up and them outside. Spiders don't bother me thankfully.

*put them outside

I call DH who will then place it in the furthest part of the garden while telling me it's only tiny, even if it bloody massive.

If DH is not home I either shut the door and to the room and wait for him to get home, get a neighbour or go out.

I am pathetic really but I just can't bare the sight of them.

I handle it very well I scream run get dp to remove it then rant about how we should move for around a week as this house is now clearly uninhabitable till I calm down

I usually do the glass and piece of paper thing to put them out the window. But if they aren't big I leave them.

I don't mind spiders at all but I loathe flies with a passion and can't rest if there is one in the house. They have to the instantly If they won't go out of the window.

I leave them be, unless they’re stuck in the bath and then I fish them out and put them somewhere out the way of my dog, who thinks spiders are a nutritious snack. My mum always used to say to me “if they wanted to be outside they would be, but they don’t. That’s why they’re house spiders.” which I think is good logic. I can’t pretend I don’t judge people who kill them without a second thought either

Husband’s job. Obviously.

Ha get by his and to deal with them. Before him...I would vacate the room and not return until the next day. No kidding - there was a huge one in my bedroom once when I went to bed. I just couldn't deal with it so I slept on the sofa for the night. It had gone the next morning. Still had to go round checking under everything before going to bed the next night. Yep I'm pathetic

I'm terrified of spiders but my DH bought me a spider catcher from Argos a couple of years ago. Well worth the money. I still shudder when having to remove a big one but does the job effectively and they're well away from me!

House spiders aren’t stupid though. They can tuck themselves into all sorts of nooks and crannies. I put one out that was sitting in my bathroom bin and they immediately ran and wedged themselves in a crevice by the front door. I’m sure it’ll be back somewhere dry and warm before I empty the bin a second tome!

Where I live, the only spiders we get inside bite humans. There are two main varieties. The first gets smashed. The second would get smashed and then call an exterminator and a hotel because the bites of the second variety cause a necrotizing infection. I do not get the spider love.

Thankfully incursions are rare because we have the perimeter of the house treated every 3 months.

I leave them alone. They are no killer spiders in Britain.

I never kill them.
What a horrid thing to do, to kill something because you don’t like the look of it.

Why are you picking up you dp’s trousers?

Glass and card if they're large enough to be a pleasing toy for the DTwatCats. Or DP if they're large and in the bath, as I'm always worried I'm going to hurt them when trying to catch them on a curved surface.

DP never kills them, either except when he murdered my False Widow living happily between the kitchen cupboard and the wall, eating all the flour moths by being carefless with the fucking fly spray I hate so much. DTwatCats, though - they're different. One comes running in making muffled squeaking noises whilst unfortunate legs protrude from between her teeth, the other demolishes the house trying to splat them repeatedly.

Take off and nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Call for DP to come and deal with it!

Spider catcher contraptions are way too short for me.

I don't mind them, so I just scoop them onto a piece of paper and put them safely outside - if I left them inside, my cats would eat them.

I used to pick them up by hand, but one took umbrage and bit me, which is why I use paper now.

Catch them and evict them, telling them they don't pay rent.
My dp refuses to go near them, his answer is always kill them with fire

I ignore them, unless I think I've seen the same one several times, in which case it gets a name and we say hello to it
Our latest resident of the downstairs toilet's called Walter. I'll swear he answers to his name as he peers out an inch or so when I go in there. Spiders don't bother me at all. I leave them be.

We have a verbal agreement, spiders and I..

You, the spider, shalt not walk on Widdlin's face, nor shall you hide about her person and surprise her by appearing from between her boobs. Nor shall you run at her, or get under the covers in bed with her.

In return, I, the WiddlinDiddlin, shalt not drop books upon your person, scream or wash you, the spider, down the sink. There will be no fire or poisonous sprays, and you will agree to consume all mosiquitoes, house flies, moths of the unpretty variety, crane flies and wasps of all kinds.

Deviation from this contract will result in a strongly worded verbal reprimand.'

And this is why the other night OH found me remonstrating with a house spider in our bed.

"YOU AGREED, NO GETTING IN THE BED, NOW FUCK OFF BEFORE I HAVE MY PEOPLE CALL YOUR PEOPLE AND I WILL TOTALLY HAVE LINDA ESCALATE THIS MATTER FIRST THING MONDAY!'

WiddlinDiddlin

Sounds eminently reasonable.

Whack 'em with the nearest slipper/shoe/book