The biggest spider I’ve ever seen is somewhere in my laundry basket

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Omg help. What do I do!

I feel like I have to choice but to empty everything into the washing machine and accept the consequences of ruining my light pants.

I'd tip it all outside and pick up each item and shake it !

Agree that would be the best thing but I live in a flat 😬

Set fire to it.

Put a saddle on it and offer rides for a fiver a go. Either it will bugger off or you will be a millionaire.

Seriously though...everything out the window including basket. By the time you get outside to pick up the clothes it should be gone.

Burn the house down. The block.

Put the basket and contents in a bin bag, tie securely and take to a far bin.

Hot wash. That should sort it.

I’ll be honest, I’ll be moving the entire basket out into the hallway until someone braver comes along to deal with it.

I live on my own but did consider roping in a Tinder boy to help 😂

I turned the shower on and threw the whole thing into it, basked and all! I haven’t seen the spider since so I’m hoping he’s gone down the plug hole (sorry spidey).

Going to dry my hair, go shopping and deal with the aftermath later.

We need to see a picture to decide if it really is the biggest !

Unless it’s arachnophobia, grown women being unable to deal with a spider is deeply tiresome.

Ask her if she'd like to meet the big lad who was in the bath two nights ago at mine, and then was so ungrateful about my providing a towel for him to remove himself that he stayed hidden inside it - after shaking it out twice - until I walked into the bedroom this morning to find him parked on my upper arm.

I felt an itch, assumed it was cat fluff, brushed it off and felt eight little feet on my hand as he landed on the floor and took himself off under the bed.

Yes, I squawked as I realised. Yes, I'll be checking the bed before I get into it tonight, as I don't want to squash him. Yes, I did complain that he had no sense of Social Distancing. But the clothes moths will be having a very bad day.

Tip the entire basket over quickly and then stomp around on top of it, try to imagine you are crushing grapes or something. All the best 😬

Ah, bot late to the party.

I feel much the same about comments like this 😇

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Anyway, spidey was NOT in the shower, he managed to escape and was hidden behind my bathroom bin!

I managed to hoover him up and disposed of him in an M&S bag in the bin store. Feel bad but they are creepy wee things aren’t they.

No, they aren't. They're just spiders, happy doing their own spider things and occasionally falling foul of the clumsy giant mammals that infest the place.

I have had some enormous spiders appear in our house recently.

In your situation op, I would put Wellingtons on inside, find the hoover, plug in and switch end to nozzle attachment, and then tip the laundry basket over with my foot so that all the clothes spill out and and any sign of movement, go in and suck it up…

Nuke the house from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

We really don't !!

We seem to be getting one of these "Oooh spiders, burn the house down tee hee hee" threads every week, and I expect they'll double in the Autumn.

They really make women look like gibbering 'girly' wrecks, especially as I've yet to see anywhere near the same amount of men giggling about 'burning the house' etc.

If you're after practical advice, tip the basket upside down outside, or ask someone else to do it.

He hasn't ! He's just hiding until he thinks it's safe to come back out again! Sorry !

What kind of laundry basket is it ? I think I would be leaving it out on the landing until I could find someone braver to come and stick the washing in the machine for me . Or if I could get a bin bag around it without touching it - I would do that and leave it about 6 months . Hope you have other clothes available !

Ah well done - I hoover them up too (and then tie a bag around the end of the hoover so they can't crawl out again).

I agree. It's really pathetic and tedious. They're house spiders, not scorpions, and the 175th person to quip, "Burn the house down!" is not a wit to rival Oscar Wilde.

I think each one of these threads sets the cause of feminism back by about 18 months.

I just had one RUN AT ME from the en-suite!

We both panicked and flailed around a bit before retreating to our respective sides of the door.

It's now trapped under a glass and I'm hoping DH will deal with it as I'm taking DD out.

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