Crazy bravery? To picks spiders up in my hand to throw them out of door/ window?

[Dangermouse5]

My DCs think I am mad. Or super tough.

I stopped doing this for a few years when there was a spate of black widow 🕷 spiders riding into U.K. on bananas. But have started again. I grab them in my hand and throw them out nearest window or door. So much easier than the ' trap into a plastic cup with cardboard underneath'
method. When you actually might then drop them and have to spend at least half an hour trying to catch the flighty things or lie that you killed them (rarely kill a spider, I can't do it) .

Not beetles. Beetles are scary. ... But spiders ... meh.
Not big spiders mind. Just spiders without beetle sized bodies.

My cousin threatens to burn her house down (possibly regularly) when she finds a spider.

What crazy bravery parental (or other) do you MNers do?

I caught DS's diarrhea in my bare hands once, but I graciously concede to you. You're frickin' nails.

If you were truly brave you would leave the spiders alone.
Throwing a house spider out of a window will likely kill it anyway.

Aren’t you worried that it will run up your sleeve? Worst nightmare!

You are dead brave. I am dreading ‘spider month’ (September). I have swallowed all the hype about conkers so my pathetic response is having Badedas showers from late August onwards in case it scares them off.

@MrsCopperfield

If you were truly brave you would leave the spiders alone. Throwing a house spider out of a window will likely kill it anyway.

But I have screaming DCs and they come in from outside anyway? They definitely live in my Laurel bushes outside usually. I'm not trying to be cruel, I'm trying to prevent wanton spidercide

I do the same unless they are the chunky, fat body ones, then a cup and paper on top.

@seasonalremarks

I do the same unless they are the chunky, fat body ones, then a cup and paper on top.

We are apparently too tough mums / parents together!!!

I have swallowed all the hype about conkers so my pathetic response is having Badedas showers from late August onwards in case it scares them off.

I wish I knew what Badedas showers were. My DCs would badedas every day then (and shower.., which sounds a fab reason to persuade them to!)

Found by a friend on her ceiling last week

@FetchezLaVache

I caught DS's diarrhea in my bare hands once, but I graciously concede to you. You're frickin' nails.

Oh no. I think you rock! That's super tough, top mum hardness!

Ivegotanewfridge

Oh my Lordy lord. Perhaps my cousin is right, burn the house down!!! That's proper scary

(Don't actually burn your house down)

@Ivegotanewfridge did she burn her house down??

[quote FetchezLaVache]@Ivegotanewfridge did she burn her house down??[/quote]
We wouldn't have blamed her ! (Except for the burning her house down bit )

Anyone else? Anything you do that is crazy brave? Proper tough PPs on here tonight...,

OP do you pick up those MASSIVE house spiders too?! 🤢 I've had ones that were so big a pint glass only just fit over them..

@Ivegotanewfridge

Found by a friend on her ceiling last week

CHRIST.

That is the stuff of nightmares.

Ps Badedas is horse chestnut (conker) shower gel!

It's better not to touch spiders, as their legs are delicate and it's easy to hurt them.

Stick to the cup/postcard model and stop making it all about your misplaced bravado.

This is my party trick.

I used to rescue my SIL from spiders when we lived in a flat together.

I bought a spider catcher for a tenner on Amazon. It’s changed my life! You can get them from any angle and it doesn’t hurt them at all. But yes, you are very brave!

I was bitten by a spider a few years ago and it proper sting like a bee sting. Tiny one only about 2cm if that. Its put me right off picking them up. Also they are crunchy so its hard to gauge the force if you grab a leg.

But most of all, I used to work for Fyffes and these was foreign spiders ( and scorpions) one lady went to stamp on a hand sized beast - put it was no where to be seen when she lifted her foot. We think it must have ran up her trousers.

Also something to small to be rat but too many legs ran out of the banana house into a field. I have almost picked up some kind of tarantula on a pineapple once.

So in summary unless I know the species I ain't touching no spiders any more.

The bravest thing i do is worms 🤣 moths, bettles to I dont mind the vegan bugs oh and the odd bat!

@Whirlywooo

OP do you pick up those MASSIVE house spiders too?! 🤢 I've had ones that were so big a pint glass only just fit over them..

No. Not is they have beetle sized bodies. Anything else - yeah sure...

It's not brave. By your own admission, it's laziness. It's cruel.

I stopped doing this when one gave me an unexpectedly nasty nip.

Aw, noooo, I do the glass and cardboard trick to remove them. They chucked into my garden (and I can often hear them land!). My dad picks them up in his bare hands. He was very arachnophobic but cured it by doing his own exposure therapy.

@LadyJaye

It's better not to touch spiders, as their legs are delicate and it's easy to hurt them.

Stick to the cup/postcard model and stop making it all about your misplaced bravado.

It's not misplaced bravado. I don't hurt the spiders. Shoving a cup over them and pushing cardboard into them repeatedly as they run, is far more aggy. It's a quick scoop gentle touch and out the window. I don't know how you catch spiders and whether you have crushing hands, but I don't ...

@milkyaqua

It's not brave. By your own admission, it's laziness. It's cruel.

I didn't say I was lazy.

You made that up