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.

Name them . I have an old victorian house so quite often will spot a spider. I leave them alone unless they are in the bath or sink .Then i just pick them up and move them somewhere safer so they don't get drown .Would never ever kill a harmess spider think that is really cruel .

Our house is littered with cellar spiders - I leave them be ..mainly because they eat up all the big hairy UK house spiders that I hate.
I can see 2 currently lounging around the corners of my room - I believe several are living under the coffee table and don’t get me started on the downstairs loo ... I’m super happy they are here...if I ever move I plan to take them with me.

Just leave them, this world is best when creatures are left to create equilibrium

Catch and release if they are in an inconvenient place. Otherwise I just let them crack on!

Oh yikes, cellar spiders. I hate those horrible cannibals. I vacuum them up without any guilt whatsoever.

Sorry but I spray them with whatever nastyness I have to hand! I have even used Mr Muscle oven cleaner! If they don't die in front of me and run off at least I know they have gone off to die somewhere. I know this is cruel and nasty but I have a spider phobia and this is the only way I can deal with it.

I can’t kill them it makes me feel sick

I did get some of those high frequency plug in things but I don’t think they even work

My house is directly behind a huge active farming field so I get all number of horrific insects of giant sizes

Depends where it is, I will just ignore smaller ones but the huge fat ones make my kids hysterical and my cat or dog won’t kill them so usually cup + paper + nerve

Glass, card & put them out.
If they're very small I'll leave them alone.

I either leave them be or catch them in a glass and put outside assuming one of the cats or dog don’t get it first .

I give them names and follow their progress around the house. I like spiders.

If dh is here I scream at him to get rid of it and leave the room until it's done. If he's not I scream and do what I have to get rid of it.
(I was quite happily relaxing watching telly the other night, and I glanced up and saw a huge spider crawling along the wall. Dh was not long back from work as he'd finished early that day, he was literally about to get in the shower. I screamed, ran upstairs and banged on the door for him to sort it. What I'd have done if he was still at work I honestly don't know).

They're harmless and do a lot of good for us. Why on earth anyone would hurt or kill them is beyond me. Humans are a disgrace. I just leave them-unless they're in danger (in bath etc) then I move them carefullly.

pick up with a bit of paper under a glass then throw them out,i dont kill them

daddylong legs though get squisshed straight away,i hate them

and with our garden being practically the mountain we get a lot of bugs especially in the autmn

Catch them in a large plastic container with a sheet of thin card slid underneath, and pop them outside.

I could never kill them. I couldn't bring myself to kill anything. Peace and love, that's what we need more of in this world.

Spraying in the UK will probably cause you and yours more health problems than the spiders would. They clean up mites and flies ... what's not to like? If you're in Oz with poisonous ones I can understand the problem.

Hey OP what do you mean by swollen body? And what colour was it? I love spiders but at a distance

I’m honestly horrified that people kill them in such cruel ways like spraying them with chemicals and scalding them alive. If I was round someone’s house and they did that I’d be pretty disgusted and definitely be rethinking my opinion of them.

I could never kill them. I couldn't bring myself to kill anything. Peace and love, that's what we need more of in this world.

I’m afraid you’re killing them anyway, by putting them outside, @FurrySlipperBoots.

They’re house spiders. They can’t survive outside. It’s honestly kinder just to put them out of their misery rather than subject them to a more prolonged death in a habitat completely unfamiliar to them.

For the most part I leave them alone. My teen is scared of even the tiniest ones and has passed the fear on to the toddler, but I have managed to cure the little one by starting off with tiny spiders, letting them crawl on my hand and then theirs. Now they don't mind, but the teen will still recoil.

Spiders are such useful creatures and in the UK the vast majority are completely harmless.

I am torn, though, when I consider the clever thing that has spun webs all over the bug and bee hotel in our garden...

@DestinyIsCallingMe

I put them in the carport, so it's an open area but covered, with walls/nooks/crannies/clutter to make their home in. I figure that's a good compromise. And even if they die out there they'll get eaten by something and contribute to nature's foodchain.

I did actually have one in my bedroom for 2 years. I tried repeatedly to catch him but he was always too quick, scuttling under the beam. In the end I just gave up and named him Geoffrey. He never went anywhere but just sat in his tiny web there. I never saw him eat a thing so don't know how he survived but he seemed happy enough!

They’re house spiders. They can’t survive outside. It’s honestly kinder just to put them out of their misery rather than subject them to a more prolonged death in a habitat completely unfamiliar to them.

Or just leave them alone. Putting them outside or killing them are not the only two options

I pretend I don't see them. If they're super obvious or come too close, I blow and curse at them to bugger off, or go to a different room, hoping they've hid themselves before I come back. And I tell myself they're eating other less welcome bugs, so I might as well let them stay. If one's stuck in the bath or the sink it gets put outside with the card and glass method.

Occasionally, if one hangs around a lot, I name it and talk to it. (Haven't seen Herbert in the bathroom for a while...)

I only freak out when they're unexpectedly on me. I sort of shook my head some days ago and a random spider fell out, and that did me moving, and my heart racing. The spider escaped under the sofa and hasn't been seen since.

Why on earth do people kill spiders? I really really don’t get it. They help keep flies etc away and are a sign of a nice dry (non-damp) house. Just leave them alone ffs!

And what’s with the screaming and dramatics also?? I’m scared of dogs but I don’t scream when I see them. I grit my teeth and smile and hope the obligatory sniffling is over with quickly so I can politely move on from the whole ordeal.

Why on earth do people kill spiders? I really really don’t get it.

Because there are enough if them and I don't want them inside. My garden is spider heaven though, it's crawling with nests and spiders. I had guests for dinner yesterday, we ate in the garden and when they left we had to pick off around 30 baby spiders off of them. They kept crawling towards our glasses and plates and all over us.
I'm fine with that, but my house is off limits. I don't see why I should keep house spiders alive tbh