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 kill them because I am terrified of them and wish they didn't have to exist.

I build a small shrine and worship the Queen of Arachnids. I'm determined not to eaten come the Spider Apocalypse!

I love spids! Great little creatures, without whom the world would be overrun with disgusting flies.

Leave them be, the eat the flies

I normally cup them in my hands and take them outside, as I worry about trapping their legs if I catch them with a glass and a piece of card.

I wouldn't mind having them in the house myself, but DH, despite not disliking spiders themselves, doesn't like their webs in the house.

I have two cats and a dog. In general they don't last long.

We have no spiders, zero. I think our cat eats all the spiders...

Kill them. If I'm wearing shoes I will stand on them but been known to squish them with some tissue of whatever I have to hand.

I pick them up and chuck them out the door or window

peppermint oil is a good repellent, spray it by the door and windows etc

I name them. One was called Big Leggy until I noticed she'd been accidentally squashed in a door frame :-(

We have a cat and suspect he eats most of them, though.

Glass and a piece of paper or card and calmly put them outside.

Before DD I used to spray them with hairspray to stun them, bash the shit out of them with a heavy shoe and hoover up the remains. Punctuate that with screams and tears.

I desperately don't want her to inherit my phobia and ironically it's the spindly ones she doesn't like and they don't overly phase me. As long as they don't suddenly appear or scuttle too much and startle me I can manage. In between lots of deep breathing like a weight lifter. We tend to get more spindlies so I try to leave them when I can as they get rid of the ones that really frighten me.

I don't like them much but if I find one in the house and am able to catch it I take it out to the garden with a glass and card. If I lose sight of it then I leave it alone.

Carpet cleaner, it’s the only spray cleaner I find that kills them instantly before the have time to hide somewhere inconvenient and die.

Don't even notice them. Never harmed a spider. Sorry I just don't get it.

Nothing. They don't bother me at all. If one hangs around for a while we might even name it.

Hope the person who said they pour boiling water over them has tried pouring boiling water over themselves

I used to shriek and let dh put them outside. After having this happen from a spider bite just today though......

Damn, I can't post the image. But there's a thread on it. If you dare to look..... next time I see a spider I shall run off screaming and burn down my house.

I just leave then to it and wish them luck with our cats!

The past week we've started getting the little body with massive chunky legs spiders again. I really cannot abide them. We bought our house from a couple who put the kitchen in themselves (badly) and as such there are plenty of nooks and crannies for the spiders to appear from

If it had a big bulbous body it was probably a female false widow. I found one on the wall yesterday, it was a beautiful iridescent silver with black markings and stripy legs. They are actually very shy and only dangerous if you have an allergy to their venom. I was nipped by a false widow cupboard spider (also bulbous but brown without the pattern) when cleaning the rabbit hutch, it was less painful than a bee sting and a bit itchy for a week but that was all.

Try not to fear spiders, every home has a spider population (we just don't see them as they mostly hang out in dark places like under furniture or behind wardrobes. Without them our homes would be over run with insects!

I do remove big ones or those capable of a nasty nip (false widows, nursery web spiders, wolf spiders) I just trap in a jam jar then release in the shed at work. There's no point putting them out the window as they come back home!!

Embarrassingly a few years ago my cat got fleas and I had rentokil in to spray the house.
I haven’t seen a spider since- it’s been bliss!

Cry and contact anyone available to come and remove it by any means necessary (if DP not home)

I'm irrationally and pathetically petrified of them, they make me physically sick, have panic attacks and if I have one I spend the days after paranoid in my own house.

I capture a spider with a card and an upturned glass and then put it outside in the garden, spiders are quite useful as they catch flies and they don't bother me much unless one is crawling on my foot or leg in which case I'll brush it onto the carpet or floor then try to capture it

I leave them alone.Even the whoppers.We used to have one that regularly came out in the evening in our lounge.Got quite fond of it.But then I'm not frightened of them and never have been.They do a good job catching flies.
I realise that's not the case with lots of people.