To never go in my little girls room again!?

[FedUp1850]

Soooooooo Aragog is residing in my little girls bedroom. He is massive. I just can't go in there. He's been in there for days, I shut the door and put a blanket down at the bottom to hopefully keep it in there.

I'm petrified of spiders. My mum said that her mum put one right up in her face when she was a kid, thinking about it almost sent me into cardiac arrest 😅. Someone help me overcome this irrational fear!

Get your child out of there woman. Then gaffer tape around the door and call the cops

@Monty27 she's already in with me - the door has been closed for days! Even if I wanted to put her in there I couldn't 😨😅

You can buy spider catchers on Amazon (which do work).

Could a friend or neighbour catch it in return for a cuppa?! I'd help a neighbour out if they asked (with or without tea bribe).

@Poppins2016 I really might have to ask actually.

Hmmmm
Put a fly in a bowl covered with cling film. Pierce the cling film the spider will get in there for supper, eat the fly, fall asleep and unable to make its way back out and die of suffocation

Seriously LTB and get a injunction. What sort of CF just takes up residence in someone’s house!
I am absolutely terrified. To the point if I open up FB and a story with a pic jumps out at me, I have gone through 2 laptops. It’s irrational but I have such a extreme reaction.
I know I’ll get flamed for this but when you are so scared of them that it is all you can think about and you spend a day not being able to take your eyes of it or go up the stairs past it there is only one option. A whole can of wasp spray. A entire can. You do have to be brave and get within spray distance. Spray the hell out it. It won’t kill it but it will immobilise it so you can get close enough with a whopping size 9 or the Hoover. Then burn the hoover. Then don’t enter the room for 24 hours because it stinks.
Not in a million years could I catch it, I can’t get close enough to stamp on it, what if it jumps up and eats me. I have a whole cupboard of spray and it’s never failed me.
I wish I was brave enough to catch and release, but I’m just not and I can’t unsee it once it’s started harassing me. Our cat is useless by the way, he thinks they are friends and can’t understand that he has one job in life.
I know they are more scared than us etc etc but until you are in a position of pure fear at the sight of them you will never get it.

I’ve raced to a colleagues house before to come an kill a spider when I lived in Aussie. So embarrassing! I saw it under the stairs as I was walking up (open treads) and jumped down them as if it was going to jump up and get me

My advice is to get the fly spray, quickly open the door, and while squealing and jumping from foot to foot, empty the whole can in the room then seal it up again.

After that I don’t know. Last time I did that, at an air bnb in NZ, I had to get the cleaner to come and pick it up and make sure it was dead. She crushed it and flushed it. (She happened to be working downstairs at the time)

Since it appears renting has knocked out a lot of your options, it is quite likely that you will be eaten by a giant spider, but if it’s of some comfort, it will be entirely your landlord’s fault. Start drinking the vodka now to numb the pain. Also, I’d teach your daughter how to run the household, in case Mr Spider sneak attacks; at 1, she’s obviously old enough. In the previous generation, we all had to do it by 6 months old, but kids are so much softer these days.

I've got two words for you. Insect spray.

Me and DH are both terrified of spiders. We're already training our future spider-catchers by being very positive about them. Whenever we see them in books or on tv we hide our disgust and say things like "omg isn't that spider sooo cute??", "look at it's funny long legs hahaha I bet it feels fun to hold it!" etc.

We're playing the long game.

What type of spider? How big/small? Do people in the UK actually have real spiders? I mean, like we do in Aus? 'That's not a spider....this is a spider' type contest. Lol Cup of cement, harden up, and all that. I'll show myself out before I get screamed at for giving you all nightmares.

Bug bomb the room.

I can’t sleep tonight and now I’ve read this I’m terrified there’s one the room! I can’t even put the bedside lamp on in case I see one. I know there’s bound to be one lurking somewhere close by because there are floorboards with big cracks in and it’s an old house ....

@SaraNade thanks for the broken phone screen where my phone has just been dropped out of pure horror. Really appreciate that.

@FedUp1850 just for you ☺️

A few years ago, D was working away kids at school and my aragog appeared the kitchen..
After some initial flapping and trying to catch it with a glass which involved me dropping the glass and running away squealing, the dog was flipping useless. I avoided the kitchen for a while and then my UPS man saved the day. He still reminds me every now and then, but he was a hero, picked it up and popped it in the garden, with me shouting away from the house, AWAY FROM THE HOUSE !!!

For the future, you neeed to cultivate a kind neighbour who will deal with them instantly for you

The problem with sealing the room is you don’t know where it is now 😫

I mean it might have tucked itself up in bed and have it’s nasty spidery head on the pillow 😴

I hate I break it to you but he’s probably already escaped and it lurking in the rest of the house.

I, too, have arachnophobia and it’s actually quite rare. Only six per cent of the world’s population suffers from it and, as there are no indigenous spiders which are poisonous in the UK, it is truly an irrational fear for Brits.

The idea that a large spider is lurking in the OP’s child’s bedroom gives me the horrors. I would have to get someone to remove it or I wouldn’t have a moment’s peace. I am lucky in that my DH or DS will remove the beasties to a distant place of safety for me.( I don’t want to kill them, just have them taken away.)

When the situation is resolved for the OP she should pick some conkers, which are now in season, as they are reputedly an effective deterrent. Leave them around the house and the smell puts the spiders off.

Glass and cardboard?

If there’s a gap under the door he probably explores the house at night and goes back to the room to sleep! Have you checked to see if he’s still there??

Set fire to the house and move to Tunisia. Don't ever speak of it again.

I would seek help for your phobia.

I would hate to pass on such a fear to my children.

Do you want to borrow my big fat dumb cat? He is a rotten hunter usually but spiders? He loves spiders. I tell him off every morning when I find a scrunched up monster on the carpet. He is particularly good at finding them in the middle of the night in the pitch black.

I like spiders, it makes me sad. 🕷

I had a very nice neighbour at my old house who would come and get rid of them for a cup of tea. Do you have any nice neighbours? I taught my dc to catch them and put them outside for me as soon as they could reach tbh. Ds2 was only a toddler when he caught his first spider. Dd2 has that job now.

I don't get this! I just go in and scoop them up, paper & cup and put them outside. Is it like, fear they'll crawl up your nose or something?

I saw kids screaming with fear at them when I worked in a Nursery. Like actual terror. Mine are fascinated!