Help me deal with this please ( phobia )

[kerrymucklowe2020]

There's a giant spider in my house. I'm all alone and I'm.petrified of the bloody things. Please tell me the least traumatic way of getting it out of the house. Thanks

I place a large glass over it and then slide a piece of paper underneath then take it outside.

Hi, first of all, don't worry, I have phobias too so I know that won't help but you'll be okay!

I would get a large see through glass or bowl and put it over it, then a piece of cardboard or a a thin baking tray if you have one to slide underneath, pick it all up and deposit far away from the house outside. Alternatively, squash it if you can't deal with being close to it alive?

Didn't realize I enabled voting. Thanks for voting IABU-I take it you don't have any phobia's then?

Towel over the bugger. Launch it over then scrunch up and throw outside. Leave for a week .
Glass or bowl don’t work as you have to get too close!

Thanks evil and night - I'm not up to the glass removal method yet.

No names - fab idea although I'm.scared it'll fall out

Always have lemon and peppermint oil thing at home. Drop into corners and areas where they can hide every few days. Magic

I place a large glass over it and then slide a piece of paper underneath then take it outside.

People who are scared of spiders cannot do this.

Have you got a Dyson or something with a long wand bit, OP? I have been able to get close enough to do that on occasion. Do you know where it is?

The spider, that is, not the Dyson

Just leave him. He's beneficial, eating all the bed bugs and what not.
Or you will have to man up and get a large bowl and thin, stiff card.
My brother instilled a terror of spiders when I was young. However, mum refused to get them and Dad always seemed to drop them for them to run into the unknown. It was better for me to dispose of them myself.
I dont advocate this at all but you could vacuum it up if you are petrified in place.

Last resort but involves killing it: spray it with hairspray

Invest in a spider catcher op!! £7 off ebay!!

Windy - I need to do it now!

In your shoes vacuum...

Empty in the bin.

Then order this...

Don't do the vacuum. They get out. I've seen it happen.
OP, you have my absolute sympathy. I have terrible arachnophobia and regularly wake my husband in the night doing bizarre things due to night terror (standing on the edge of the bed convinced there are spiders everywhere etc).
I would never be able to get a cup over a spider.
I would attempt to kill it from a distance. I know it's not kind, but I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing it was somewhere loose in the house.

I've thrown heavy books from the safety of a chair (books that I know I don't want to read!) with some success.

Good luck.

Windy what if it get stuck and then comes out if the hoover later ( am I overthinking this)

Forget the Mary in the Dyson from Royle family- what about Incys in the dyson

Apple- I have a wicker washing basket - it's climbed in there,.....

In the past I’ve launched something heavy at them from the other side of the room. There’s no way I could get close enough to put a glass over one.

Put shoes on. They’re somehow worse if you’re barefoot

Can you put the lid in the basket and chuck it outside?

Can you chuck the basket outside?

Use the long nozzle on the vacuum, then take the vacuum outside, empty the contents into a flower bed or bin. Least the vacuum out there if you are that worried.

Please don’t hairspray it, that will be excruciating for it.

For the longer term, lots of Zoos offer courses to help you overcome a fear of spiders, might be worth looking into taking one.

Hoover with the long bit then put the hoover outside, far far away

If it’s a really bis spider, you need a lot of hairspray for that trick